Josh Freckleton

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• Typed & Authorized REST API with Servant: Part 2

  March 22, 2016

  Add persistence and a CRUD abstraction.

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• Typed & Authorized REST API with Servant: Part 1

  March 6, 2016

  Servant is the http backend that feels most in-line with haskell's philosophy of type safety, and modularity. Here's how to build a simple app.

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• Continuum | Unified Programming

  January 17, 2016

  Imagine if an architect's blueprint automatically generated a building for free. I want that, for programmers.

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• Transducers

  January 3, 2016

  Reduce is a workhorse in functional programming, and transducers introduce the pattern for composing functions that operate on reducing functions.

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• Fibonacci in a Few Lines

  January 3, 2016

  Using Clojure's core.match. Pattern matching is invaluable in other functional languages for, among other things, elimiating awkward control flow problems.

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• Functional Patterns in a Logic Language

  January 3, 2016

  "Logic" is one of the members of the Holy Trinity of computation. If you're not aware of the paradigm yet, it's a real mind bender how it works, and brings a huge benefit to any problem that can be described by it's constraints.

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• The "kill pattern" in Clojure's core.async

  January 3, 2016

  Here's a useful way to shutdown long-running channels in Clojure.

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• Clojure Tinker | A Place to Play With New Libs, and New Ideas

  January 3, 2016

  For when you want to get your hands dirty quickly with a new Clojure lib.