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This year, I have the honor of serving as the program chair for the Haskell Symposium, co-located with the 2026 International Conference on Functional Programming, or ICFP to its friends1, on August 28-29 in Indianapolis, Indiana!

The newest zine from my research group, “Carol’s Causal Conundrum”, is out today!

Last month, I was thrilled to have the chance to give a colloquium talk, “Interpreters everywhere!”

When did computer scientists start to talk about “simulation” between programs?

Last week, I cleared everything else off my schedule to take the “Crusty Interpreter” course, an immersive 5-day “write an interpreter in Rust” course taught by Dave Beazley.

My research group has a new paper, “CRDT Emulation, Simulation, and Representation Independence”, appearing at ICFP this year!

I want to wrap up 2024 by talking about my friend Alan Jeffrey, who we lost this year.

It’s finally done!

While getting ready to teach my grad distributed systems course this fall, I found myself once again flipping through Cheriton and Skeen’s rather scathing 1993 article “Understanding the limitations of causally and totally ordered communication”.1 One of…

The short version of this post: The last-ever !!