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PhD Theoretical Chemistry. Haskell/Typescript full stack engineer at Mercury. Aspiring Erlang programmer. Occasional content creator youtube.com/chiroptical twitch.tv/chiroptical. Fencing enjoyer.
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submitted 3 hours ago • 0 comments

The bruising from this sprain is pretty wild. Starts halfway down my leg and goes to my toes.

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

Was able to do my first HEMA class in the boot. Tried rapier and long sword. Obviously I was super limited by my ankle but it was pretty fun.

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

Why I Wrote the BEAM Book https://lobste.rs/s/wcnixg #book #erlang

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

Starting up the stream #erlang OSS contribution twitch.tv/chiroptical

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

Erik Stemman, the author of The Beam Book, has been working on this project for more than 15 years. I'm very happy to read his book also as a printed one! #Erlang #Elixirlang #Gleam #WeBEAMTogether

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

I’ve been doing this volunteer backend project with firebase functions and Python. Holy moly it has been a bear to deploy.

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

Reading yet another post asserting all you need is a human doing careful continuous supervision of the automation and it’s gonna be perfectly fine, as I grind my own teeth into dust while 40+ years of research and industry reports flash through my mind like war footage in a ptsd movie scene

submitted 5 days ago • 4 comments

Fear of Macros by Greg Hendershott www.greghendershott.com/fear-of-macr... #Racket #lisp #scheme #macros #metaprogramming

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

@codebeam.bsky.social is there going to be a code beam lite NYC this year?

submitted 9 days ago • 1 comment

Should get a more convenient brace tomorrow and I see the orthopedic doctor on Monday. The road to recovery begins.

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

Lot of irony breaking your ankle fencing. It probably wouldn’t have happened if I didn’t fence. However, my balance and leg strength is good enough that I am pretty mobile still.

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

TIL `let in term` is valid #haskell

submitted 10 days ago • 1 comment

Gahhh, first semi-serious fencing injury tonight. I’ll be out of commission for at least a few weeks. Super annoying but it could have been a LOT worse.

submitted 10 days ago • 1 comment

Spent a bit pruning my bonsai. No idea if I’ll keep it alive but one can hope!

submitted 13 days ago • 0 comments

Finally into the Contracts section of #racketlang guide. Get ready for a flurry of confusion!

submitted 13 days ago • 0 comments

A slice of sour dough bread, toasted, with butter and raspberry jam.

submitted 14 days ago • 0 comments

How do I increase the skeet frequency of #erlang and #racketlang?

submitted 15 days ago • 0 comments

I like that #racketlang allows you to have sub modules which aren’t default exposed but you can opt into them if you need them.

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments

The BEAM is such a superpower

submitted 17 days ago • 0 comments

Would you still create smart constructors in #racketlang with contracts on a struct? My guess is no, but it isn't necessarily obvious to me yet.

submitted 17 days ago • 0 comments

Phenomenal #fencing night tonight. My parry rispostes were tight. I also better understand when someone is taking priority from me by beating. Need to get better at hiding my blade + distance. I’m very often to close with my blade hidden.

submitted 17 days ago • 1 comment

Current learning options: build a compiler in Haskell, learn meta programming techniques in Racket, or learn about WASM and Grain. I need more time!

submitted 18 days ago • 1 comment

Why are there so many cool programming languages!

submitted 19 days ago • 1 comment

At work we have a use case for an ordered non-empty set. AFAICT, there isn’t a #haskell library for this yet. Pretty sure you could represent it with a ‘NonEmpty a’ and ‘Set a’. Any better ideas?

submitted 19 days ago • 4 comments

I’ve been volunteering my time to help with a community project but I kind of want to switch focus to OSS work one night a week instead.

submitted 19 days ago • 0 comments

I was finally able to go fencing again tonight. What a dang delight. Too many missed parry riposte situations tonight. It is nice to feel how far I’ve come. #alwaysbelearnin

submitted 19 days ago • 1 comment

I was supposed to read structs/modules first but I couldn't help but peak at contracts. This fails at run-time because 0 is not positive.

submitted 21 days ago • 1 comment

Can add, [language.auto-pairs] '(' = ')' '[' = ']' '"' = '"' to [[language]] section for #racketlang in #helixeditor to avoid automatically pairing single quotes.

submitted 21 days ago • 0 comments