Ian Duncan
@iankduncan
I used to be smart, now I just try hard. Haskell enthusiast Me, Maker, Engineering at Mercury, formerly Forge, CircleCI, others
Work is debating what goes into chili. I present: Annexationist Maximalist chili. What if you just used everything in n order to offend everyone equally?
Took a walk in the shade of the forest this morning, and found the most excellent snail I’ve ever seen. Absolute unit of a snail. I feel sorry for the immortal that he is hunting down.
I know asking LLMs to rationalize their actions doesn't do anything, but still a fun monologue:
Just released thread-utils-context-0.4.1.0 to Hackage. It's used under the hood by my hs-opentelemetry suite, and managed to get some significant speedups. A full read-write cycle over values in thread-local-storage have been sped up from ~248 ns to ~13 ns on my machine. 19x faster!
The U.S. consulate in Amsterdam is effectively closed due to the Iran war, and they haven't posted anything on their homepage about it. Instead it's an ego piece for the ambassador. Wasted my whole morning going to Amsterdam just to get turned away at the door. This fucking administration.
Oh yeah I’m doing pretty fine in that front, thanks for thinking of me! Meanwhile coming back to work in a week has me like
It's not feature-complete yet, but I have cracked the problem of making working Haskell bindings for nearly every MacOS framework! Can write GUI apps without having to touch Objective C or Swift.
Curious about the bad mind shapes bit here. The whole villainy curve reminds me of the travel curve of a blue key switch.
I find a ceramic grater like this to be the superior option for ginger and daikon processing: kagi.com/proxy/IMG_97...