This guy is NOT a great engineer. Great engineers don't gatekeep.

I hope Sam doesn't take it personally.

Yeah I’m a frontend (compiler) engineer

A fun example of opaque behavior due to a lack of referential transparency is in the Typescript type-checker -- if we have that `const x = a.b`, it is not true that `a.b` is interchangeable with `x`, in terms of producing a well-typed program, which is unintuitive.

broke: `List.interleave : 'a list * 'b list -> ('a, 'b) either list` woke: ``` datatype ('a, 'b) cycle = Nil | Cons of 'a * ('b, 'a) cycle ``` `List.interleave : 'a list * 'b list -> ('a, 'b) cycle`

I know I am far from the first person to say this, but I think it's clear the only reason people think FP is harder than imperative/OOP is because they encounter it later. So they've just about managed to get their head around the horrors of memory management, mutable data types,

LaTeX macros are not referentially transparent and it infuriates me

is it evil to want absolute power and influence if I only use it to teach functional programming

You can take me out of the classroom, but not the classroom out of me. Excited to share my first supplemental lecture for 150, on going from SML to OCaml! brandonspark.github.io/ocaml/

💕 Happy Valentine’s Day from Semgrep! Here’s a peek at some of the Valentine’s created for our team by the talented Brandon Wu—great for some last minute inspo if you are scrambling for a card! #valentinesday #appsechumor

If I lose both my AirPods and get them replaced at the Apple Store, are they still “Brandon’s AirPods Pro”?

What started as an April Fools joke turned into a great demo of Semgrep’s extensibility and scalability when it comes to adding support for new languages. Check out more about our GA support for CodeQL’s query language in Brandon Wu’s blog post: semgrep.dev/blog/2024/secu…

I’m proud to announce that 15-150 is now available on Semgrep Academy, along with a wealth of amazing security courses, all free for the public. Be sure to check it out to see all the amazing things Tanya has put together!

give me source code and I will move the world

I rarely post nowadays, but I just wrote a blog post on my experiences teaching functional programming a few summers ago. I hope you find it meaningful. brandonspark.github.io/blog/teaching/