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This is pretty close to type branding (newtype wrapping for the Haskell-inclined), though using template literal types is pretty novel. Normal brands look something like this: type…

Yes, and they're truly phenomenal pieces of music journalism in an era where many of the music blogs have withered or degraded.

It opens up a huge toolbox of tools that work with Functors and Applicative to make parsing easier, and proves that using those tools will work predictably.

I think you were originally correct and that `Record ` was not a good example. I would guess that union literals and primitives are handled differently by the compiler in this case…

I believe that would be covariant: `'home' | 'work'` is a subtype of `string`, and `Record ` is assignable to `Record ` so the subtype relationship is preserved.

Carhartt is a very trendy street wear brand in addition to their (still very trendy and brandy) workwear.

I had read this article more as a "from-first-principles" example, but it's a good note for people who might be unfamiliar with practical Haskell. Using an effects system also prom…

I don't host it, per-se: I use VimWiki, and occasionally Obsidian for the pretty graph. VimWiki even has a static site generator, but I use Pandoc for that. For search I use FZF an…

I can attest to this and took all of my notes on paper in college. However, once I started a real job I realized that this strategy doesn't scale to all situations. In college, I n…

Not directly as far as I know, but federal taxes are the other mechanism by which money can exit the economy. I should have stated as such.

After the Federal Reserve adds money to the economy, they usually want to take some of it back out. They take money out either by selling bonds or through taxes. The goal of removi…

I see this argument made assuming that REST service creators are not aware of L3 REST but the fact that it never caught on is at least some proof of its ill-fitness to the general …

It's good for IoT and automation because it's fundamentally a framework for discrete functional reactive programming. It could be good for any context where you need to tie togethe…

If the oleophobic coating is intact (and good quality) it should come off with just a clean cloth.

Using soap on surfaces that have an oleophobic coating can degrade the quality of the coating. This is even worse with dish soap.

I've used Lenses as a beginner/intermediate haskeller and they're very easy to use. It's easy to get bogged down in the theory and specifics but Lenses are perfectly usable on the …

That's how I got to this question. I went through the usual guantlet of finding a self-hosted RSS app I liked as well as exploring freemium options and eventually settled on Inorea…

This hasn't been my experience. FP is a fantastic complement to OOP for "practical" programming. It adds an entirely new dimension and avenue for expressability which is why we're …

The illusion of realty appreciation transcends recent quantitative easing.

This is the point that I have the most trouble understanding in critiques of Fowler, Bob, and all writers who write about coding: in my reading, I had always assumed that they were…

I knew I recognized that name. Glad EFF is sticking up for them, they're not a huge channel.

Article from Wired on why algae isn't the silver bullet it's marketed as: https://www.wired.com/story/carbon-neutral-cows-algae/ Essentially, it's only useful for pasture raised co…

Code purity isn't just for you, it's also for the compiler to be able to make assumptions about the code in order to apply optimizations that would not otherwise be possible. For e…

Definitely check out the part one of "Haskell: The Bad Parts" which is more relevant to the beginner to average Haskeller: https://www.snoyman.com/blog/2020/10/haskell-bad-parts-1/…