cekrem.github.io – a surprisingly delightful dev blog

I’m on vacation as I write this, happily mostly offline. Which is probably the worst possible state of mind to be in when Light announces a new phone, because now I want it.

You don’t know half of it! Seriously, it would be beyond ugly. And I’m not talking about the cosmic perspective of, you know, not even being born if He hadn’t made me, or that if He would withdraw his breath my heart would stop beating. Though that’s also true. No, I’m talking about how endlessly dependent on His presence, nearness, counsel, Word and relational affection<...

At the end of my native Elm post I said I hoped my next elm-run project would be a REST API, or maybe replacing some small existing app. I lied a little. I went the other direction and grabbed something much bigger: a real batch job, inside a real (and fairly large) applicatio...

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...