Hello World Haskell
Teacher: Hello class! Welcome to your first day of functional programming. Today, we’re going to be talking about how to write the classic "Hello, World!" program in Haskell. It’ll be...
Easy JSON in Haskell
So you’ve learned some basic Haskell and you’re feeling really good about yourself. You sit down the write some code and you’re presented with a deeply nested JSON structure: {...
Parsing Permutations
My favorite game is bridge. It’s an excellent test of cooperation and strategy. I’m in a discord chat devoted mostly to the game and folks often share interesting bridge hands...
Adventures in Looping
I was recently building a Slack bot in Haskell. The core of the Slack integration was a never-ending loop that read messages from a web socket and performed actions based...
Declarative Validation
In the past two years I’ve become reasonably comfortable with both PureScript and Haskell. I’ve learned so many new things while diving into the pure functional programming ecosystem and many...
PureScript and Haskell
Two years ago, I starting learning PureScript. I had been intrigued by purely functional programming for some time but had failed to learn Haskell once or twice. PureScript seemed to...
Parsing Untrusted Input with Elixir
I’ve spent a lot of time in the past year learning PureScript and it has drastically changed the way I think about programming in general. The biggest change in my...
Drawing Fractals with PureScript
Recently, for no good reason, I added an easter egg to my personal website. I love fractals and decided to add a visualization of the dragon curve. Here were the...
Parser Combinators in Elixir
Delving into the world of pure functional programming caused me to learn about parser combinators. Upon returning to Elixir, I was excited to see that nimble_parsec is a great example...
Building a Slack Bot in PureScript
I recently open sourced my first large PureScript project. It’s a slack bot that allows searching for cards from the Epic Card Game. In this post, I’ll discuss the process...