Michael's Blog Posts

My new home network setup

We just did a bunch of rennovations on our house, including to our network setup. For the curious, here's what it looks like.

Published June 26, 2019

Gym Etiquette Test

A recommended required exam for anyone to join a gym

Published April 1, 2019

Typing Resistance

Programming languages, like the human body, are subject to the phenomenon known as resistance. Learn how type systems in programming act like insulin in the body.

Published April 1, 2019

Shutting down haskell-lang.org

I've recently shut down the haskell-lang.org website, redirecting to a new FP Complete Haskell site.

Published February 18, 2019

Call for new Stack issue triager

Interested in contributing back to the Stack project? Consider joining the Stack issue triager team!

Published February 12, 2019

Mismatched global packages

How GHC can ship packages that are different than what's on Hackage, how this impacts Stack, and how to do better

Published January 24, 2019

Kids Coding, Part 4

Part 4 of teaching my kids to code, teaching the six year old some coding

Published January 18, 2019

Kids Coding Interlude: the function game

An interlude in the series of kids coding to talk about a helpful exercise we use: the function game

Published December 16, 2018

Improving Commercial Haskell

A proposal on how we can make the Commercial Haskell Special Interest Group more useful for the community. Feedback very much welcome.

Published December 13, 2018

FP Complete's opinion

What is FP Complete's opinion on topic X? Nothing!

Published December 12, 2018

New user empathy

We often talk about the abstract "new user." I'd like to propose a more concrete, and hopefully more helpful, approach to helping new users, both with Haskell, and in general.

Published December 11, 2018