Pun Intended Consequences

HERE are the basic points of idiomatic (according to me) F# design. The idioms I present below are not the ones generally used in the F# com...

Recently I've been thinking about the delicate situation that the F# language designers find themselves in whenever they want to introdu...

RECENTLY I've been paying attention to the BuckleScript compiler from OCaml to JavaScript (ES5, to be exact). I'm seeing some signi...

NANA is what I called him, but to the world he is the late Lutful Quadir Chowdhury, a well-loved husband, father, grandfather, prominent in ...

AMONG number systems, the hexadecimal system of counting (or 'radix') has a special place in the hearts of programmers, being closel...

The phantom of the type opera HEIKO Seeberger over at the Codecentric blog published an interesting post about using Scala's typeleve...

HANDLING state in a monadic way is one of the techniques Haskellers come to learn about. But how does it work, roughly? The following is a...

I LIKE creating my GUIs programmatically. I suppose I'm a traditionalist (some would say a masochist). But I feel that it gives me more ...

In Python, statements and expressions are separate and unequal citizens. For example, statements can contain expressions but expressions can...

THIS movie should really be called Exodus: Moses’ Struggle with God . Early on in the movie, Moses (at the time an Egyptian general), trav...

SOMETIMES when you’re working with git repositories, the remote doesn’t support pushing and pulling over SSH. It only supports HTTPS. Or you...

LIKE many others, I’ve come to rely on Stack Overflow (SO) as an amazing repository of technical knowledge. How did it become so comprehensi...

IT TOOK me a while to write about Zack Snyder’s Man of Steel (MoS) because I was trying to articulate what it meant to me. And I think I’ve...

‘MANUSCRIPTS don’t burn’.–Woland, The Master and Margarita Recently I re-read this classic, long my favourite book, and I re-discovered wh...

TODAY I learned (the hard way) about a subtle bug in Microsoft Excel. It seems that to the VLOOKUP function looking for a matching value in ...

ABOUT a year ago roughly I started using a new transit fare payment card called Presto . Presto is a top-up card–you pay as you spend–and it...

This will work on Firefox and should also work on Chrome with a little adjustment. You can start posting a tweet straight from the browser a...

Warning: Minor spoilers. I do references specific scenes from the movie, but nothing major. HARK, True Believers, and let me tell you a st...

I RECENTLY moved to Windows and started using Adobe Reader. The latest version is Adobe Reader X (that is, 10) and I started to keenly feel ...

SOME time ago I complained that there wasn’t any good, free blogging software on the Mac. Well, since then I’ve pruned my list of demands ...