I’ve decided after many months of active development to release version 1.0.1 of gitlib and its related libraries to Hackage. There is still more code review to done, and much documentation to be written, but this gets the code out there, which has been working very nicely at FP Complete for about six months now. The more exciting tool for [...]

Until the Comonad Reader comes back online, I have a temporary mirror setup at http://comonad.newartisans.com. It’s a bit old (Sep 2012), but has some classics like “Free Monads for Less”. It is missing the “Algebra of Applicatives”, though, since I hadn’t run the mirror in a while. [...]

Chatting with merijn on #haskell, I realized I have a file server running Ubuntu in a VM that’s idle most of the time, so I decided to set up a jenkins user there and make use of it as a build slave in the evenings. This means that at http://ghc.newartisans.com, you’ll now find nightly builds of GHC HEAD for Ubuntu [...]

Since mid-January, I’ve been running nightly builds of GHC on my Mac Pro for 10.8.x, 64-bit. I’ve decided to make these results publically downloadable here: http://ghc.newartisans.com. The installer tarballs are in dist, while the fulltest and nofib logs are in logs. According to Jenkins this build takes 8h15m minutes, so I figured this might save others some CPU [...]

In this tutorial I would like to talk all about continuations, to attempt to demystify this rather simple concept somewhat. For it’s not so much that continuations are difficult, but that the ways in which they’re used can get complex pretty fast. In essence, a continuation is a function which represents the next block of code to be executed. Take [...]

Problem 1: The source of exceptions is obscured