Allanderek's blog

I am a software developer and mostly write about coding related issues. A lot of my posts are related to the Elm programming language (and related). Some are more general.

2022-10-27 Laziness would be good for Time.Extra.posixToParts

2022-10-06 No more imports

2022-07-26 Underscore type params

2022-06-29 Structural Custom Types

2022-03-11 SimulatedHttp, functors and sed

2021-05-29 Let signatures

2021-04-10 100 days of blogging

2021-04-09 Copy from tmux

2021-04-08 Dry can cost you

2021-04-07 Immutability bugs again

2021-04-06 Templating HTML and String interpolation

2021-04-05 Overusing Right Pizza

2021-04-04 Case for if-then-else

2021-04-03 Uses and definitions

2021-04-02 Another polymorphism blind spot

2021-04-01 Polymorphism blind spot

2021-03-31 Elm missing features #1033

2021-03-30 Elm input states

2021-03-29 Remote pairing software

2021-03-28 Elm-format features

2021-03-27 Tailwind so far

2021-03-26 Pole prediction lives

2021-03-25 Elm-format and boolean logic formulas

2021-03-24 Does Go question my identity

2021-03-23 Dolt is git for databases

2021-03-22 Keywords in a language

2021-03-21 Pole prediction status

2021-03-20 Elm paradox

2021-03-19 Commented code in the repo

2021-03-18 Let-in, where, and the right pizza

2021-03-17 Response to a Tailwind Critique

2021-03-16 Elm-review as an optimiser

2021-03-15 Non-negotiable features

2021-03-14 Issues in Git

2021-03-13 Pole prediction update

2021-03-12 Horizontal and Vertical

2021-03-11 Clients as a pitfall

2021-03-10 Is Elm faking work

2021-03-09 Paul Grahams's Programming Language Questions

2021-03-08 Impossible states and stale messages

2021-03-07 Html.Lazy and extensible records

2021-03-06 Tailwind CSS

2021-03-05 Missing IDE feature

2021-03-04 Html over the wire

2021-03-03 Let-in Let-in

2021-03-02 Restricted text input in Elm

2021-03-01 Virtual machines

2021-02-28 Significant Whitespace

2021-02-27 Unrelated bar usages

2021-02-26 Domain Specific Languages and frequency

2021-02-25 Generic components: A small downside

2021-02-24 Setting up NextCloud

2021-02-23 Github close issue

2021-02-22 Why is Go (lang) popular?

2021-02-21 Boring technology

2021-02-20 Bull shit articles

2021-02-19 Pattern matching records

2021-02-18 Mutation typing - a not-yet workable idea

2021-02-17 Missing language feature - Remove from scope

2021-02-16 Stale Messages in Elm

2021-02-15 Embedding HTML into an Elm program

2021-02-14 Weak typing - What is it good for

2021-02-13 Surprising Elm

2021-02-12 Re-implement the browser

2021-02-11 Foldl and foldr

2021-02-10 Laziness again

2021-02-09 Promises and Elm

2021-02-08 Generating from types

2021-02-07 Laziness

2021-02-06 Typed meta-programming

2021-02-05 Nested records and defensive programming

2021-02-04 Unit type and empty records

2021-02-03 Splitting Elm messages

2021-02-02 Type classes are meta-programming

2021-02-01 Could meta-programming be harmful?

2021-01-31 Dynamically typed languages and meta-programming

2021-01-30 Lambdas again

2021-01-29 Relative issue prioritising

2021-01-28 Safe dead code removal and compile-time laziness

2021-01-27 Frugal syntax formatter

2021-01-26 More compile time laziness

2021-01-25 Elm's Maybe.withDefault

2021-01-24 Elm and lambda expressions

2021-01-23 Immutability bugs

2021-01-22 Elm records and let declarations

2021-01-21 Hungarian notation and Elm maybes.

2021-01-20 Elm - Minor imports syntax tweak

2021-01-19 Cognitive Biases and Programming

2021-01-18 Terser error messages

2021-01-17 Extensible custom types in Elm

2021-01-16 Elm errors with filenames

2021-01-15 Comments and word-wrap

2021-01-14 Elm open source model

2021-01-13 Elm and comma separated lists

2021-01-12 Indent with two or four spaces

2021-01-11 Delete this comment

2021-01-10 My opinionated import style

2021-01-09 Files as modules

2021-01-08 Less is more security (sometimes)

2021-01-07 Or patterns

2021-01-06 Defensive programming and validations

2021-01-05 Elm extensible record syntax and warnings

2021-01-04 Elm catalog

2021-01-03 CLR, Purescript, and Elm

2021-01-02 Builder pattern record update operator

2021-01-01 Camel case vs snake case