My website has changed a bit over time. It was initially a WordPress blog, contorted to do double-duty as a folio for my design work. More recently it's been a static site, first generated by Metalsmith and later Hakyll. About a month ago I started to feel that hosting my site on Github pages was a…
This post is about some reasonably advanced type-level features of The Glasgow Haskell Compiler and as such I assume some knowledge of Haskell. Despite this I've made an attempt to link to further resources on Haskell features as I introduce them. My hope is that even if everything here doesn't mak…
Before we begin: in order to understand a lot of the following you'll first need some familiarity with Haskell syntax and be somewhat comfortable with what a Functor is. OK, now firstly: why learn about lenses? Every time I've seen lenses in action it's looked like wizardry. I mean, just look at th…
Assuming you're a javascript dev who's had to deal with anything aysncronous. Firstly, we're going to talk about promises, so: What do we talk about when we talk about Promises? It's very likely you've done something like this: doSomethingAsync(function (resultOfAsyncThing) { console.log(resultO…
I've been making software professionally for about nine years and I really love it. I believe software has this empowering potential, I believe everyone should be able to understand it if they want to. This means I prefer open and accessible tools and standards wherever possible. It also means I try to learn in the open, sharing what I learn as I learn it.