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2018 Retrospective Reading List

December 28, 2018. less than 1 minute read

In keeping with (my relatively) recent tradition, here’s my annual retrospective recommended reading list. It’s a shorter list than usual (just three books t...

HaskellX 2018

October 14, 2018. 2 minute read

I attended the 2018 Haskell eXchange (HaskellX) conference this week. It’s a two-day conference on the programming language Haskell, and its use in industry....

Big Code Summit

October 10, 2018. 1 minute read

I’ve just returned from the inaugural ‘Big Code Summit’. A two-day conference on the very interesting topic of Big Code, which featured a mix of academic and...

Listify in Haskell (Part I)

March 02, 2018. 5 minute read

I’m rewriting Listify in Haskell, with a few changes. As a reminder, the original Listify (henceforth Listify-js) is a web app that scrapes the BBC radio web...

Afrotech Fest 2018

February 01, 2018. less than 1 minute read

I very much enjoyed attending Afrotech Fest in London recently. It was ”a two-day tech festival by and for black people of African and Caribbean heritage”, w...