Over the past year or so, I’ve reluctantly come to the conclusion I need to leave Elm and migrate to some other language (most likely Bucklescript via philip2), and I definitely cannot recommend it to anyone else. This post is about my reasons for that, w... (more…)

After experimenting with Elm, I was hooked. I could feel that working with a smart type system brought both reliability, in the sense of "it does what I want it to do", and safety, in the sense of "it does not have bugs".

How a recent trip to Rwanda helped me rethink what software improvement looks like. (more…)

This week I encountered one of the most interesting bugs I’ve yet to witness in my near half-decade of programming in Elm. This is a potential code smell you’ll definitely want to watch out for. We… (more…)

A few weeks ago, on a whim my friend and I decided to hackathon our way through an app to help us learn how to play guitar. In a stroke of inspiration, we decided to learn something new, and do the project in the Elm programming language, about which I ha...