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A few weeks ago someone at work asked me what I actually do. Not my job title — they had that — but what functional programming is. I started in on the usual mumble about pure functions and immutability, watched their eyes begin the slow slide toward the exit, and then they rescued both of us with a guess:
“Functional programming… does that mean you write the ...
Back in December I hacked Elm onto a Node.js backend and got a little carried away calling it “Elm on the backend.” It wasn’t, really. Node did all the actual work – opened the socket, parsed the HTTP, wrote the response – and Elm sat in the middle shufflin...
Leaving my general dislike for Webflow aside for now, let’s at least agree on one specific thing: it is terrible at code. We have markdown.enso.no for the actual writing – you draft in markdown, it gives you something you can paste straight into Webflow’s WYSIWYG editor – and that pipe...
Sajjaad Khader sat down with Anders Hejlsberg the other day. Yes, that Anders Hejlsberg: the man behind Turbo Pascal, Delphi, C#, and TypeScript. The chat is twelve minutes long (or probably a lot longer as it’s quite aggressively edited), and Sajjaad opens with the question every channel seems contractually obligated to ask in 2026:
Quick Friday post, mostly to give you this: learnelm.dev.
It’s a curated link directory. Nothing fancy. Just the stuff I’d actually send a friend if they asked me where to start with Elm – the official guide, the blog posts I keep linking to, talks that are worth an hour of your time, the pl...