About the author

Richard has spent 24 years programming, almost half of them professionally. Most of his career has been as a web programmer, where he has often found himself pushing the browser to its limit in the pursuit of ambitious user interfaces. He first used Java-Script before jQuery came out, was among the earliest contributors to React after it was open sourced, and started writing Elm before it had a core team.

Today Richard is a member of the Elm core team, is a frequent conference speaker on the topic of Elm, and is the organizer of the Philadelphia Elm Meetup. He is also an instructor for Frontend Masters, where he teaches an “Introduction to Elm” as well as an “Advanced Elm” course. He maintains several widely used open source Elm projects, including elm-test, elm-css, elm-spa-example, and elm-json-decode-pipeline.

Some have said he’s “into Elm,” but he’s not sure where they got that wild idea.