Alex Yorke

Making decisions is an inherent part of engineering.

Previously in the series: List is a monad (part 1) Last updated 2026-06-08.

Note July 6th 2025: this post’s original title was “A list is a monad”.

In functional programming, type safety ensures that values (often called “objects” in other programming paradigms) conform to the constraints defined by their type.

There’s a few common -Ops terms, such as DevOps, GitOps, and ChatOps.

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The GitHub cache action is an action that allows you to cache files in between CI runs.

If you delete a file from a filesystem, it is removed from the index but usually stays on disk until a newer file overwrites it.

E2E (end-to-end) tests.

Code review is important because it reduces coding errors when introducing new code into the codebase.