PureScript Async FFI
I recently posted about using Aff for asynchronous effects in PureScript. In this follow-up post, I’m going to discuss using JavaScript FFI in conjuction with Aff. Aff and FFI PureScript...
Asynchronous PureScript
One of my favorite features of PureScript is its ability to work with asynchronous effects. While learning the language, I struggled to find any beginner material that introduced the relevant...
Laziness in PureScript
I’ve been learning PureScript for the past few months and really enjoying it. PureScript is a Haskell dervied language that compiles to JavaScript. You can target node for the backend...
Go Dependency Injection with Wire
Several months ago I wrote a blog post about dependency injection in go. In the time since that post was written, Google has released a fantastic new dependency injection container...
Concurrent Ruby with Tasks
Yes, you read the title correctly. And yes, ruby still has a GIL. However, ruby has long been able to support concurrency for IO-bound calls. Ruby will not block the...
So You Bought a Pixelbook
Initial Setup First, follow the Quickstart instructions here. You now have two things set up – a VM called termina and a container inside of that VM called penguin. This...
Lazy Providers in Dig
If you haven’t yet read my previous post on depedency injection in Go, please do so first. This post describes a simple technique to make dig’s DI container even more...
Dependency Injection in Go
Update - you should probably read my more recent post about dependency injection with wire. I recently built a small project in Go. I’ve been working with Java for the...
Promises as Values
I was recently working on a small JavaScript project in which I needed to perform several asynchronous operations sequentially. I had a collection of images on a page and I...
Elixir's Secret Weapon
I recently began using a new(ish) feature of Elixir that completely transformed the way I build programs. I’m talking about the special form with. It can feel unfamiliar at first,...