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You might have noticed the blog has been a bit quieter than usual lately. That’s because most of my writing energy has been going into the book.
I set myself a few deadlines a while back, the kind you don’t tell anyone about so you can quietly pretend they never existed if ...
I’ve been trying to write an article about why developers should learn functional programming. I have three drafts. In Norwegian, for some reason. None of them are good enough to publish.
I believe the argument. Spent the last year proving it to myself with an Elm book, 125...
Last time, I said Interface Segregation was up next — “another principle that sounds very OOP, in a language with neither interfaces nor classes.” I was gearing up for another round of reframing, maybe some clever type-level trick like the opaque types in ...
A year ago I wrote about why I hoped to write a lot of Elm code in 2025. Then I went and wrote an entire book about it. I spent the year
This chapter might be the most freeing one in the book. If you’ve spent real time writing React tests, you know the ritual: mocks, cleanup, async wrappers, act() warnings. In Elm, testing is just calling pure functions and checking the output.
Believe it or not, the book is...