PALMER PAUL
Quick Tip: Invoking Liquid Tags from Custom Filters

I was recently working on a Jekyll website and figured out a neat trick involving custom filters. I was creating a filter to extend the functionality of the Jekyll link tag to specially handle certain site-specific URLs and delegate to the link tag in all other cases.

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GSoC Update #3

Previously on Elm for iOS, I discussed the latest plans for the project and the internals of JavaScriptCore. Since then, I’ve been working on implementing those plans. I have been approaching the work from two fronts, 1. a modified version of virtual-dom and 2. a Swift backend for rendering and updating native UIKit elements.

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GSoC Update #2

The planning stage of the project is nearly done. After some trial and error, we have discovered a promising approach for how to construct the Elm-Swift bridge.

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Introducing Torah Scholar for Alexa

This past week, I published my first Amazon Alexa skill. The skill is called Torah Scholar, and it lets you ask Alexa for verses and commentary from the Tanakh (Old Testament).

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GSoC Update #1

I started my Google Summer of Code project with the Elm Software Foundation, Elm for iOS. As part of the project, I will be posting weekly status updates. This is the first of those updates.

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Hello, World!

Having my own blog has been on my wish list for quite some time. Even before I created this site I had toyed with the idea of starting a blog. Well, it looks like I have finally gotten around to doing it, as I happily present to you my first blog post.

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