Issue 42
Hackathon by @jetstream_cloud, Elm, Hasura, and AWS by @opvasger, an update to elm-pages by @dillontkearns, parsing to solve code challenges by @janiczek and @tkshillinz. What an interesting week for Elm! And a story about Marie Curie.…
Issue 41
This week Andrey Kuzmin has released an update to elm-physics. This release is accompanied with a large "release note" where Andrey describes the performance improvements made to the library, new shape types, and where the development is heading. Code contains an interactive demo where you pick the table and can…
Issue #40: Functional programming
Every fifth week I make a special issue covering particular topic of Elm. You can find them all under the special tag. Elm is my first foray into the world of functional programming (Python's functools don't count), and in the absence of constant practice I decided to start this newsletter…
Issue #39
The life of a file is one of the first videos I watched about Elm in order to figure out how to structure your code. In there Evan discusses how to grow your code. What should you do when your file contains 500 lines of code, 1000 lines, or 5000…
Issue #38
I think I haven't used Elm enough to fully embrace the concept of elm-css, and still prefer to have it separate from the application code. And just recently thanks to Hans Hoffman I found out about global css variables. In his blog post titled "Dynamic css themes with Elm" Hans…
Issue #37
It's not often that something fundamental gets updated (not talking about Elm this time). This week saw the release of updated elm-test with some changes. As a result it got lighter, quieter, and faster. The great guys Dillon and Jeroen from Elm Radio Podcast have released a new episode: Impossible…
Issue #36
Ralph Northman has released the largest triangle three buckets (LTTB) algorithm package and demo. With no description of what this is (I'm sure those who need it already know what it is), I was curious as to where this algorithm is used and why I might need that (of course…
Issue #35: Special about testing, part 2
A while ago I did a special issue of Elm Bits about testing, it was issue #10. In 35 weeks as I've been writing this newsletter, my style has changed quite a bit. Few weeks ago I looked at that post again and it felt so empty, so small. Not…
Issue #34
There's a joke (well, not really) that if you want to teach your child how to swim, just throw them in the swimming pool. This is basically how I got my introduction to Elm: straight up writing a project in it. And having used only OOP for my entire career,…
Issue #33
I usually put videos in the middle or in the end of this email, but not this time. Recently Evan gave a keynote at ICFP. Here it is: On language adoptionIn addition to giving a brief history of Elm, how and why it was developed, Evan also mentioned the recent…