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Production Haskell v1.0 Released
Now with hard copies!
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reserving the name
wow i would actually really like to switch from GitHub Pages for my programming stuff, but Substack doesn’t let you use markdown? absolutely not what…
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Coming soon
This is Overcoming Software, a newsletter about thoughts on Haskell and other software concerns.
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Break Gently with Pattern Synonyms
This is a really brief post to call out a nice trick for providing users a nice migration message when you delete a constructor in a sum type. The…
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Spooky Masks and Async Exceptions
Everyone loves Haskell because it makes concurrent programming so easy! forkIO is great, and you’ve got STM and MVar and other fun tools that are…
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Femoroacetabular Impingement
Apparently, I’ve spent my entire life with a condition called “femoracetabular impingement.” The bones in my hips are deformed - the femoral neck is too…
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Dynamic Exception Reporting in Haskell
Exceptions kind of suck in Haskell. You don’t get a stack trace. They don’t show up in the types of functions. They incorporate a subtyping mechanism…
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