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Two years ago, I starting learning PureScript. I had been intrigued by purely functional programming for some time but had failed to learn Haskell once or twice. PureScript seemed to be a kinder, gentler introduction to this world while retaining the fundamental properties of pureness that made Haskell intriguing to…
Well, it's been a year since I started the draft, so I guess it's about time to publish this! :)
Google Analytics is only very superficially free. Why I removed it, what it really costs your users, and the privacy-friendly alternatives I use instead.
If you haven't noticed already I really love plain text so I thought I would find some plain text protocols that are used in different software systems. The Redis Protocol specification states it best by describing its own protocol, but this applies to all of the plain text protocols I will cover.
Linux capabilities can be difficult to understand so let's go through them quickly
It's taken me much longer than I hoped, but I finally have a second version of my patches to build static executables tested and ready to go! This set of patches vastly improves upon the first by reducing the amount of compilation needed at the cost of sacrificing a little purity. Additionally I have created a system…
My home city of Chicago continues to reel from soaring crime rates. Among the categories of increasing crime is a 135% spike in carjackings. One would think that the legislators would be focused o…
Icon fonts became popular over a decade ago. But their convenience comes at a high cost to your visitors.
Kevin Lin builds tools for humans and agents.
I know we don’t like Louis C.K.
In the Unity for Software Engineers (now updated and available as a book), series, I give an accelerated introduction to game development in Unity.
A series where I’m documenting my process of designing and building an e-ink laptop.
Deep Black Horizon posted an air traffic control broadcast from American Airlines flight AA2292 on Sunday. The aircraft was flying from Cincinnati to Phoenix and at 1:19 p.m. Central time, while over the northeast corner of New Mexico at around 37,000 feet, radioed Albuquerque Center about "a long cylindrical object…
A note from the author This was a very quick first draft, written in around two hours as part of my 30 More First Drafts project. You can now read the finished short story. This article is about the standard test brain image. For the original human, see [[Miguel A...
An in-depth analysis that explains how this console works internally
How types might be the missed part of the future of code
At this point, most developers use Git as a tool for collaboration. We have our rote-learned commands to pull, commit, and push. And of course, there's that one coworker who knows a bit more about Git…
Wouldn't it be nice if more JSON tools supported a truly pretty JSON format? Demand options for truly pretty JSON now! Viva la revolucion!
"Run the unit tests" doesn't count. The complexity of your system is in the interactions between the units.
What does Timnit Gebru’s firing and the recent papers coming out of Google tell us about the state of research at the world’s biggest AI…
Personal Blog of Christian Haschek
How do you boot a computer from punch cards when the computer has no operating system and no ROM? To make things worse, this computer req...
Yes, Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard is as good as I remembered.
The venture capital industry was built on the premise that both capital and high quality companies are scarce. For most of the history of the industry, this has been true. I remember sitting at...
