Chunk, chipmunk, chickpea. The "ch" in these is such a silly sound. Who came up with it? I'd rather pronounce "ch" as in chaos, chemistry, character. This is how I'll say it from now on, in all words, e.g. /t͡ʃɛs/ → /kɛs/ If you linguists don't like it, you can such my dich.

How I implemented a feature in GHC vs. How it was described in the proposal

what's the difference between people who view disagreement as threatening vs those who don't?

Had my phone stolen, this is my villain origin story because I am 1% more racist now, approaching dangerous numbers

Over the years, my idea of a perfect job has shifted from developing programming languages to testing them. No one really knows how to test programming languages properly, the whole field is still in its infancy. Academia is more interested in theory and industry is more

Кошка^W Гофер, вид сзади

There are cool ideas and there are good ideas. I haven't got a clue how to tell them apart.

When you put a webserver up on the internet. anywhere, hosting anything, you will see "the background radiation of the internet", and it looks like this:

I used to like this quote, but how true is it really? Isn't a language worth knowing if's reasonably fast, reliable, with good libraries and platform support, etc? You need it to build the product you want to build. Even if the language itself isn't novel or interesting.

Compiler Engineer: Task = Programming Language

One of the reasons I'm so annoyed by the use of plaintext for code. Comments should be annotations attached to AST nodes and displayed on the side.

Narrator: it's 10,000 lines of bug-filled crap.

Friendship ended with Haskell. Now Rust is my best friend.

Volkswagen. DaaS Auto. (Driving as a service).

protobuf isn't perfect but the current version is good enough that it should be the default 1 word about "human readable" and you get 60 secs with a gun to your head to sight-read TLS encrypted packets bearing UTF-8 encoded JSON dumped as hexadecimal in wireshark, no mitmproxy