Every time I see one of those my brain goes "Oh, it's a Hindley-Milner chair" and I immediately notice that that's not it. Then I spend the next 30 seconds trying to remember the name Herman Miller.

The first day of ICFP with the Haskell Implementors Workshop was great fun and concluded with the mandatory tasting of some local craft beers.

ICFP’s OCaml reception brought an actual camel out. Hats off to the organisers.

Indie bands naming themselves 2002-2008:

THREAD: Here's a handy list of Tory MPs who said Boris Johnson had to go in July and are now saying he should be PM. It's been quite the journey for some...

Choose your fighter $AAPL $MSFT $GOOG $AMZN

I was fired from Twitter this morning. I was responsible for the timeline refreshing the second you saw a good tweet

Hi, and welcome to your system design interview! For the next hour, we'll design a simple microblog service. Requirements: - 1M+ users - 5000 QPS - 1 sec post latency - Can survive a hostile CEO takeover for at least 10 days.

Optimization for Revenue = Optimization for Discontent

haskell-docs-cli is now on Hackage. If you are a Vim or Emacs user and don't want to leave the terminal to search and browse Hackage docs and sources you can now $ cabal install haskell-docs-cli $ hdc github.com/lazamar/haskel…

I got back to the gym a bit over a month ago and my body is already showing signs of improvement. I've been feeling fewer cramps and the focus on back exercises is making it noticeably easier to keep a good posture for longer.

Hey folks, the database for lazamar.co.uk/nix-versions/ was updated and channel 23.11 is now available.

The workings a virtual DOM like what React and Elm use are pretty cool, but also rather straightforward. I wrote a thing on how you would go about writing one in a bit over 200 lines of pure JavaScript. lazamar.github.io/virtual-dom/

I wrote a thing about playing with data compression in Haskell. It explores Huffman codes, data serialisation, and using laziness to keep a low memory footprint without losing on modularity or simplicity. lazamar.github.io/haskell-data-c…