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This essay is a treatler manifesto, full of treatler clichés like “customer service simply no longer exists.” https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/treatler-treatlerite Note that the auth…

David Remnick’s New Yorker is not really in a position to scold other people about facts. Here is a fun exercise that David Remnick and other Americans can do to see if they can ch…

Yeah, “insisting on programming with Python” is exactly the reason why you would want to use Edifice.

Here is a bonus list of other Python declarative native GUI projects: https://github.com/pyedifice/pyedifice/discussions/43

I have a Suzuki Palette kei minivan and I love it. It cost $8000 and I've driven it for nine years and it has never broken down. It has tall ceilings and huge windows and it seats …

> What if a programming language would provide us with a structure that would act like an array of structs, but internally it would really behave like a struct of arrays? We could …

Yes, my understanding is that Theodore Gray invented the "computational notebook" for Mathematica in the 90s. Here is the best writeup of the history of the notebook that I've ever…

For pattern matching and search-and-replace in Haskell, some people might prefer monadic parsers to regular expressions. This library has a similar set of capabilities: https://git…

Mr. Burge has written a nicely thought-out blog post showing an evolution of different ideas about how to write to an array in Haskell. I don't want people trying to follow the evo…

Keep! And increase all font sizes to at least 1em. And give this comments page the same treatment, please.

> What's the future that Haskell brings? That's a great question, paulsutter. The great computer scientist Peter Landin in 1965 asked a similar question about the future of program…