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I’m going to be moving my technical blogging about agents to lambdamechanic.com/blog.

I’ve been writing code professionally for something like 25 years, which I think classifies me as a greybeard if not an outright grognard at this point.

MiniTSis 6.0.1 release I’m happy to announce the first public release of MiniTSis, a property testing library for TypeScript with integrated shrinking and a test database.

We measure a lot of things in software engineering these days.

I like ThinkPads.

Problems with Persistent I use Persistent for a lot of my Haskell database work.

Traditionally, the new year is when we all make public proclamations of how we’re going to be better humans: this year, we will read more, run more, listen more, eat healthier, and generally be our best selves.

Why scraping libraries in Haskell aren’t good enough Every time I mention that Haskell webscraping libraries are a bit lacking, somebody points to (http-conduit|wreq) and (tagsoup|taggy) and suggests that it’s just a matter of gluing them together.

Template Haskell is often considered a smell in Haskell, responsible for everything from slow compile times to impenetrable error messages to the cow’s milk turning sour.

In general, stack is pretty good at caching build artifacts - the first build might be glacial, but incremental builds are snappy.