Pong in Elm

Fri, 01 Mar 2019 00:00:00 +0900

Given the rate of change in front-end frameworks and tools, the developer experience tends to be different every time I find myself needing to make a UI.

For quite a while, I found front-end dev mostly annoying and fiddly. When React and Redux became available, I liked the model, and found myself reasonably productive with it. I kind of looked forward to working on front-end tasks!

Then I discovered Elm, and fell in love with it. I’ve only used it for small toy projects (like the Pong game below), but it’s a joy to use.

If you’re interested to find out more about Elm, you can read An Introduction To Elm, and if you’re curious, the source for the game below is at davecahill/pong-elm on Github.

Japanese (Kotoeri) input method disappears on Mac OS X

Sat, 07 Feb 2009 00:00:00 +0900

This morning I found I could no longer switch to the Japanese keyboard layout on my Mac – only the US layout was listed. So I went to System Preferences > International > Input menu and looked for the Japanese Input Method (called Kotoeri on the mac). There was no sign of it; here’s how it got fixed in the end.

Check that it’s a preferences / configuration problem:

Create a new user (System Preferences > Accounts)
Log out and log in as new user
If the input methods are displayed correctly for this other user (see below), it must be a settings issue.

Fix the preferences problem:

Log back in as the main user
Drag these two files from /Users/MAINUSERNAME/Library/Preferences to the Desktop:
com.apple.menuextra.textinput.plist com.apple.system.preferences.plist
Restart, and presto, Japanese is back on the menu – いただきます！

Note: This is probably relevant for these other Input Methods also, as they disappeared and reappeared along with Japanese (kotoeri):

Hangul
Simplified Chinese
Tamil Input Method
Traditional Chinese
Vietnamese UniKey

Dave Cahill

Pong in Elm

Japanese (Kotoeri) input method disappears on Mac OS X