What is a null coalescing operator but a poor man’s monad? What is a pipeline operator but a poor man’s method call?
chreke
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Functional programming enjoyer Co-founder of https://functionalsoftware.se Personal website: https://chreke.com Sometimes I write stuff here: https://blog.snork.dev/
The Func Prog Podcast is back with another episode! I sit down with Adam Tornhill, the founder of CodeScene, to discuss technical debt, Clojure, and why it’s so hard to write good code. Listen below! 👇
Node.js meetup on March 23rd 👀 Node.js meetup on March 23rd queen?? luma.com/217oq7dm
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Welcome to the first Node.js meetup hosted by Functional Software! Don’t miss this opportunity to connect with fellow Node.js developers, listen to engaging…
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Another programming puzzle for the weekend! programmingpuzzles.com/puzzles/013-... Let's see your answers in the comments below!
013 Do Androids Dream of Emmentaler Cheese? - ProgrammingPuzzles.com
Worker androids from the off-world colonies have made their way onto Earth. Your job is to track them down, but it's difficult — they look identical to humans. Usually you have a machine that can iden...
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People on twitter will really be like "you believe in writing raw SQL? that pales in effectiveness to my strategy, using a model abstraction layer so I can switch RDBMS at any time" and then never switch RDBMS
Are you ready for this week's programming puzzle? Share your solutions in the comments! programmingpuzzles.com/puzzles/012-...
012 The Perfect Menu - ProgrammingPuzzles.com
You are a chef running a small restaurant; due to the small size of your kitchen, you always have a set menu with one appetizer, one main dish, and one dessert. After service is over, you immediately ...
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Tickets for Func Prog Conf 2026 are live! 🥳 We sold out last year—get your ticket while they’re still available! funcprogconf.com
Func Prog Conf 2026 - 14 October, Stockholm
A full-day conference about functional programming in Stockholm, October 14 2026
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What better way to start your weekend than a new episode of the Func Prog Podcast? In this episode I talk with @giacomocavalieri.me about the @gleam.run programming language—we had a great time and covered a bunch of interesting topics! Links in comments 👇
Hot take: We need to rethink how we build distributed systems (read: web apps). The old three tier model of client–app server-database needs to go. For basic use cases it works well enough, but as soon as you introduce complex transaction logic, or high load, it breaks.
Time for another programming puzzle! Share your solutions in the comments! programmingpuzzles.com/puzzles/011-...
011 Rosebud 64 - ProgrammingPuzzles.com
You are approached by an eccentric billionaire with an interesting proposition. He wants you to write an emulator for the Rosebud 64, an obscure gaming console he played as a child. He has purchased t...
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Can you solve this week’s programming puzzle? Share your solution in the comments below! programmingpuzzles.com/puzzles/010-...
010 Alchemy - ProgrammingPuzzles.com
You are a medieval alchemist trying to figure out the recipes in a new grimoire. However, the recipes are written in a very convoluted and cryptic way, so it's difficult to figure out in which order t...
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Another Friday, another programming puzzle! Can you solve the riddle of the sphinx? Let's see your solutions in the comments! programmingpuzzles.com/puzzles/009-...
009 Riddle of the Sphinx - ProgrammingPuzzles.com
You’re running late for work. As if things couldn't get any worse, your path to the subway is blocked by a sphinx!
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It's Friday—time for another programming puzzle! programmingpuzzles.com/puzzles/008-...
008 A Family Affair - ProgrammingPuzzles.com
You are a lord in a dark fantasy universe trying to figure out some questionable family relations, so you visit the royal archives to read the family chronicles. Unfortunately, someone has attempted t...
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here's a side project I've been working on for a few mornings: programmingpuzzles.com it's a list of programming puzzles i've come up with; they are designed not to be *too* hard (they should take 20-30 minutes to finish), so you can knock one out before you head off to work
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Are you cracked enough to solve these programming puzzles? 7 puzzles and counting!
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Can we replace SQL with functional programming? We take it as a given that relational languages are used to query databases, but there’s no reason we couldn’t use a language based on the lambda calculus!
it’s interesting that you could basically emulate type classes with explicit dictionary passing and row typing. i guess you could also implement monad transformers like this?
You’re absolutely right — you are Pagliacci. It would certainly be difficult for you to attend your own performance! I should not have given such paradoxical advice, and I apologize deeply for the error. There is no excuse for my failure.
New episode of the Func Prog Podcast! This time I’m chatting with Robert Kreuzer from Channable about using Haskell in production, getting a job as a Haskell programmer and an epic Haskell VS Rust showdown! Listen to it in your favourite podcast player—links below!👇
i've started playing with monad transformers in haskell; really good stuff
