Jappie Journal

Look at you, you’ve become quite the degenerate gambler, nice!

Even the best gamblers fail on this level.

This time one of the buttons has an upside, I won’t tell which.

I rigged the coin such that it lands heads 60% of the time.

There is this book “The Left Hand of Darkness” by miss Ursula Le Guin which I’ve thought about a long time.

Hatter is like flutter but instead of dart, haskell!

Code?

Hello 👋 Announcing unwitch.

Hello 👋 Recently there was some discussion around forking basement as baseplate.

It was Friday, 27th of February 2026, when I was reborn. bro.

Hi friends!

Death (XIII) Symbolizes significant change, transformation, and endings, rather than literal physical death.

Setting up private dependencies in nix as flake input allows it to cache it properly.

Stacked against us September 2023, I knew I was in for a wild ride when I won this contract.

Life and lemons Ever found yourself fixing a problem you weren’t hired to solve?

Stability - according to gpt4o I joined the Haskell Stability Working Group about a year ago.

For a long time, I’ve been annoyed that cabal tells you to add modules to your cabal file.

I’ve updated the esqueleto bindings for esqueleto-textsearch to include a tutorial and documentation so it no longer requires guesswork.

Villa Katalina in aruba~ is online. pic of the house You can book this wonderful rental now!

Reflective This is a follow-up on the follow up of release rodeo.

Good news!

I’ve forked mysql-haskell and persistent-mysql-haskell into mysql-pure and persistent-mysql-pure.

This is a follow-up on the release rodeo.

Using Haskell on Windows can be very useful in a WAMP like situation, where the main legacy codebase is stuck at PHP 5.61 .

Release rodeo~ In the beginning, there was nothing.

raster logo As a founder of raster.click, I was passionate about providing rostering systems for restaurants that were easy to use and affordable.

This is a quick after action report on restoring backups.

THE UNDEAD LOCK OF DETH One thing that always surprises me is how casually serious problems are phrased by business people in their blissful ignorance.

This post tracks the progress of a rental property I bought on Aruba.

My motivation for blogging has changed over time.

zurich hack logo, uwu This blog post and after action report is three months overdue, but I participated in Zurich hack 2022.

Over the weekend a company had a power outage, causing corruption to the on premise hosted mysql innodb database.

I’m a Haskell failure, don’t tell anyone!

A few years ago I wrote a post on installing NixOS on encrypted btrfs.

mtl-header Recently a blog post came out which I quite like, it describes how to use the concrete base transformers.

a NMMM computer I redid how my services are structured.

Over the past few years I’ve started using git as a template management tool1.

On my twitch stream I had project where I made a CRT scan line monitor in atom: The inspiration was the fallout pip-boy.

GHCID magic When I tried Ghcidfor a reflex project, it wouldn’t rebuild on file change.

Pinned nixops On one machine my Nixops builds and deploys, but on the other one it fails.

Reflex is a single page app framework written in Haskell compiled to JavaScript.

This is a post of things I wanted to do in nixos but isn’t described anywhere.

A client had a Citrix environment running.

In the previous blog post we saw interaction with servant in reflex.

Categorical representation of the NT iso All newtypes are isomorphisms – My mother Control.Lens.Wrapped uses the isomorphism property to introduce a type class Wrapped.

In the pragmatic haskell series, we saw how to setup a simple webserver with database.

After a year in foreign countries, I’ve returned home.

Nixos is heroin for tinkerers.

Note, I no longer recommend using beam for business as ORM.

Pragmatic Haskell: Simple servant web server Pragmatic Haskell II: IO Webservant Pragmatic Haskell III: Beam Postgres DB Most Haskell language guides will leave IO until later.