curses to gmail filters, my classic programmer painting domains expired... :(

My team at Metron is looking for a Senior Frontend/Fullstack Engineer to join our mission of applying technology to improve water usage. If you or someone amazing you know fits the bill, I'd love to chat!

Apply directly at metroncareers.com & feel free to share with anyone who might be interested!

If you call yourself a "software engineer" you better be able to:

1. Flip a linked list
2. Flip it again
3. Bop it
4. Twist it
5. Twist it
6. Pull it
7. Bop it

Finished the chapter on tagless final in "Functional Programming Strategies" and it's available to read online:

scalawithcats.com

This includes the new encoding I talked about at @scalar-conf.com

Sign up to the mailing list on the same site if you want to hear about updates.

Las month I did a silly thing and my online broker forced me to close the account. Turned out to be the smartest financial move I ever did.

I still remember the outrage about Obama playing golf...

Stolen from Reddit:
“Retros will continue until the KPIs improves”

a tweet by @primawesome My neighbor told me coyotes keep eating his outdoor cats so I asked how many cats he has and he said he just goes to the shelter and gets a new cat afterwards so I said it sounds like he's just feeding shelter cats to coyotes and then his daughter started crying

at one point i questioned my desire to help people get into open source

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One thing I've learnt in my 20+ years of software development career is that you need to hit "SAVE" multiple times to make sure your changes are actually applied...

This is Terraform:

variable "db_username" {
description = "Postgres username"
type = string
}

When are we going to leverage the real PL knowledge around us and apply it in the industry (cf dhall or nickel)?

I cant believe ChatGPT lost its job to AI

Social media directly connects you with every problem in every part of the world.

People in NL upset about some bad thing that happened 10k km away that doesn't affect them/they can't impact in any way.

Yes, it's terrible. But move on. It affects your mental health!

David Lynch in sunglasses saying "i hope you all are having a lot of fun working on your favorite projects"

Honor his memory by doing something strange, unraveling a riddle within yourself, and working on your favorite projects.

Argh, “filter” always trip me and I end up putting the condition backwards. Why we don’t rename as “keep” ?

Whooooaaaaa black Betty

Anyone here have experience with the Lean language? What’s the good & bad?

Also butchering the English language along the way…

current status: different platforms (Scala and JS) give wildly different brotli encoding outputs but both decode to the original message... not the greatest thing if you want a consistent hash :/ Worse(?), they both use the same google C libs under the hood...

me butchering the lovely melody of the love theme of Cinema Paradiso

rust fanboy: languages with garbage collector are slow
rust fanboy: <proceeds to happily use the most primitive form of GC>
me: I love rust, but.... *facepalm*

LLMs are closer to ELIZA than one would think…

I don’t celebrate Thanksgiving but thought this to be an opportune moment 2 thank Martin Odersky and the entire Scala community for a lang that gave me a decade+ long joy and fun in programming. Solved many hard problems working in Scala & truly the language scales w/ the complexity of the problem.

NEWS: We don't say functor anymore in the #ReScript ecosystem.

OCaml's notion of a functor is not the one from category theory, it is a higher-order module.

So we simply settled for "module function".

Furthermore we have documented them properly now. Thank you, @vlkpack.com!

The people are right, GHC is an amazing work of art and technical genius, until it doesn't do the thing, then you have to embark on an archeological expedition just to find out why it's grumpy with you and doesn't wanna do the thing.

Yes!

one of the things i like most about bluesky so far is being able to log in and find good things to read, and share good things I'm reading with others. such a basic, simple strength of twitter that had been decimated

A Character-Driven Monad Tutorial with a Three-Act Structure

Act I Inciting Incident

In 1966, the great computer scientist Peter Landin decided that the good part of computer programming was the expressions, and the bad part was the statements.

Swift Language Engineer - Careers at Apple Apply for a Swift Language Engineer job at Apple. Read about the role and find out if it’s right for you.

Wanna work with me on language design, concurrency runtimes and other cool stuff in the #swift language team? We're HIRING! London and Cupertino are locations for this one: https://jobs.apple.com/en-us/details/200578714/swift-language-engineer

I'll be looking for work soon! Starting early next year, remote from SE. Autonomous testing, distsyst, web, data eng, PL, and probably more areas are of interest.

(Reposts are highly appreciated. 🙌)