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