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- Do not open until release date
Automatically downloading pre-ordered games makes technical sense, but it’s frustrating to have something and not be able to use it. (2019-06-10)
- My least favorite phrase in The Adventure Zone
I really enjoy the McElroy podcast The Adventure Zone, but I don’t always like the way Griffin tells the story. (2017-08-03)
Arrow
is more thanStrong
andCategory
Several people have claimed that Haskell’s
Arrow
class is exactly the intersection ofCategory
andStrong
, but this argument ignores theArrow
laws. I demonstrate a type which is has lawful instances ofStrong
andCategory
which cannot be made into anArrow
in a consistent way. (2017-07-18)- 2016: Not entirely bad
I don’t have much to say about the awful stuff that’s happened this year, so here are some good things that happened to me. (2016-12-31)
- Amber alerts and the boy who cried “wolf”
In principle, alerting people to missing children using cell phones seems like a good idea, but people won’t react well to a jarring alarm in the middle of the night that they can’t reasonably respond to. (2015-02-25)
- How Apple secures iMessage
Apple has explained how iMessage’s design protects your messages from third-parties—even themselves. (2014-03-01)
- Hemingway and software-assisted writing
Two recent apps claim to help improve your writing, but their advice is based on misapplying questionable rules. (2014-02-27)
- More on Free Applicative Functors
Since free applicative functors are free, does that mean they are monads over indexed types? Also, can we squeeze out any more performance? (2013-06-12)
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