Infinite Negative Utility

One of the most famous episodes of Star Trek: The Next Generation is the second episode of the fifth season: “Darmok”.

Matzo is a small, experimental, idiosyncratic programming language for creating random text1 which I have in a reasonably usable state at this point.

For almost a complete decade—starting with discovering Haskell in about 2009 and right up until switching to a job where I used primarily Ruby and C++ in about 2019—I would have called myself first and foremost a Haskell programmer.

Something I've had puttering around in the back of my head for ages now is My Perfect Application Language.

Literal actual years ago, a friend of mine asked me for a blog post about how I generate images with code.

Let's talk about objects in functional languages.

Last year I decided to use the Advent of Code to practice writing code using the Pony programming language, and the first few days I struggled with error-handling—it took several days before an approach finally clicked with me.

Douglas Hofstadter's book Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid is a classic text that's had a strong influence on countless people.

I first came across Rust back in 2010 or 2011, and it was a very different language than the one it is today, both syntactically and semantically.

Something I've felt for a long time is that structural types are underused and underappreciated in modern programming languages.