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https://dicioccio.fr/ Mostly talking about some engineering and project management topics. Often revolves about decision-making (in a broad sense).

IMHO in the context of the Tar-Pit Paper (programming for services and applications rather than electronics) mutation merely is a mean to an end. The end being: some piece of memor…

I'm not sure we need a whole new programming paradigm and languages (with the hiccup that they'll require bindings to other FFI-libs that do not have as much guarantees). If you ha…

The way I've done it for my own notes (in a custom-made static-blog generator) is to have a template dedicated to "notes" and some over-engineered pipeline for similarly small data…

Dhall is advertised as a configuration language but you can do a tad more. I use it in my blog-engine to fit a use-case I found was poorly addressed by other approaches: small-card…

There is a myth that "monads" are magical insights of some sort -- it's not. Difficult to understand: likely yes because the myth is not groundless. What "monads" capture is how to…

I wouldn't call that trivial but "common", and for these cases we could even use something like catMaybes: > sum . catMaybes Lenses (imho) shine when you have to write data-extract…

I think it comes down to a mix of (a) how people (and robots) organize and find information (b) tool limitations and genericity. Regarding (a),I personally like the view that the c…

I've recently written my own static-blog generator. On the one hand, I got irritated trying or figured out I would quickly hit limitations with the popular ones. On the other hand,…

This comment misses the point of the article, which argues against a urban legend that Haskell is too difficult "unless you are this tall" (a Phd, an E.T., a superhuman). I also ha…

I see roughly the type of issue you face. For the case where there's some good value/effort ratio to invent internal representations, Haskell's being "strong" on parsing tasks make…

That's exactly what I've explored in a Haskell project: DepTrack. https://github.com/lucasdicioccio/deptrack-project basically it decorates expressions like in your example to coll…

I have a (non-contributor) experience with the PostgREST codebase. It's true PostgREST codebase is not great (lots of long functions, need some work to extract the main program int…