“Death used to be an executioner, but the gospel has made him just a gardener.” ― George Herbert

Twitter should delete your account more often ;)

The public Nix cache hosted at cache.nixos.org is one of the seven wonders of the open source world as far as I'm concerned

It is done: my 10,000 word introduction to typeclass metaprogramming (and type-level programming in general) in Haskell. lexi-lambda.github.io/blog/2021/03/2…

And just like that 'Widen Suez Canal' goes back on the tech debt backlog.

UI designers: Please stop using inverted colors to signal which item is "selected" for binary choices. We don't know which color scheme means "selected" and whether or not clicking on them selects them or toggles the choice.

'I have this against you—you tolerate Jezebel.' - Revelation 2.20 Apparently there's a type of tolerance that Jesus hates.

Roughly 25% of all the debt accumulated by the United States of America since 1776 was incurred in the last 12 months. Good luck with all that.

Galatians is basically Paul telling a bunch of ex-inmates to stop trying to beat down the doors of the prison to get back in.

When those in power control the science narratives...

#githubcopilot, how the hell did you learn to translate Applicative syntax to a #Haskell do block?!?

Simon Peyton Jones is joining Epic! Simon is a force of nature behind the Haskell programming language and has written amazing papers on type systems, transactional memory, and other fields that will be key in realizing the metaverse. discourse.haskell.org/t/an-epic-futu…

Hacking First-Class Functions into Terraform HCL link.medium.com/n5JexyImcyb

Linux isn't for everyone, but if you love rebuilding your wireless driver from source and reinstalling every time your computer restarts, man is it the perfect operating system for you.

Haskell community: "Converting between all the String types is terrible." Also Haskell community: Plugs laptop into USB C cord into USB C->A adaptor into AC->DC adaptor into wall plug.

To all restaurants, stores, airports, etc.: Please turn off the music. If you must play something, play nature sounds or something. But please, just please turn off the music.

Ansible is by far the worst software I have ever used. Not even one of the design choices was a good idea. It's Python, Jinja, YAML glued together in such a way that nothing is obvious, everything is dangerous, and run time incredibly slow.

If you're an evolutionist, don't buy crypto. The probability that life originated from evolutionary processes is much, much less than the chance your private key might be guessed. If you think evolution can happen, you're keys cannot possibly be safe!