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Disregard Data.List
Lately I’ve started using streaming library by default instead of the utilities in Data.List. The standard manipulation functions for list are part of…
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Chris Martin
Mise en place
Early language acquisition students, at the elementary and middle school levels, can see a problem with the language invisible to those of us who are…
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Chris Martin
Haskell PVP numbers are your friends
I know you don't want to read this, but it's short and important, I promise.
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Chris Martin
Nonzero magnitude: Prisms and lenses
The first part of this series argues that affine traversals should be considered the core optics concept. You might ask, if that's true, why does…
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Chris Martin
Positive integers and affine traversal
The Positive integer type, why it's helpful for working with rational numbers, and an affine traversal relating Positive to Integer that's great for…
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Chris Martin
The turtle protocol
In search of a better playground
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Chris Martin
hspec, specify, shouldBe
How simple testing can be.
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Chris Martin
The Args and the Env
Environment variables need love and parsing too.
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Chris Martin
Using AWS Secrets Manager
A new library, and thoughts on the unreliability of open source maintenance.
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Chris Martin
The centrality of AffineTraversal
Today’s subject is optics. This article is not extensive enough to qualify as an introduction to the subject, but it does offer a palatable sample. If I…
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Chris Martin
Programming requires breadth of knowledge
Is learning Haskell about tackling Big Ideas?
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Chris Martin
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Turtles aren't just for kids
I have a confession: I’ve gotten extremely bored with writing demonstration code. The problem is that the only interesting effect I’ve ever been able to…
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Chris Martin
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