mikey.bike - journal

1Zpresso ZP6.

OK, technically it’s been eleven years and change since I first checked in my init file, but who’s counting.

Make illegal states unrepresentable!

At work, we make heavy use of the dry-monads gem, which gives us result objects (either Success or Failure) and methods to bind them together, and if you squint it looks a lot like Haskell’s do notation.

The last couple weeks have felt a little like the early days of the pandemic to me.

In an ideal world, we’d all push up our branches for review composed of small, atomic commits, each producing a coherent build and passing all tests, each commit reviewed separately and signed-off on or rewritten to incorporate feedback, and merged cleanly

This site runs on the Hakyll static site generator which has so far been great with one exception: it lacks a system for asset hashing.

I bought this book by chance from Porter Square Books, after waiting in a long line in the rain during a more stringent lockdown period, in February, looking for a book to get for my friend Sam’s birthday.

My friend Kevin posted some good points about email vs Slack and how Slack fails at being a good medium for business communication.

In the old days of film cameras, you wouldn’t choose a camera because it performed better in low light, or had more dynamic range, or had better resolution.