In this edition of our Haskell in Production series, we interview Fabian Thorand from Channable. Read the article to learn where Channable uses Haskell and why do they like it.

Since we started PostHog, our team has interviewed 725 people. What's one thing I've taken from this? It's normal for candidates not to ask harder…

The so-called ‘crisis pregnancy centers’ are turning to social media, including Snap Maps, to lure young people

Learning Haskell the conventional way can be difficult, so I’m going to recommend a different path, you can dive in head-first with the “Ruby on Rails” of Haskell: IHP.

If you’ve more than a couple of years of experience in IT, you probably have stumbled upon the following quote: There are only two hard things in computer science: cache invalidation and naming things. — Phil Karlton Then, because it’s such a great quote…

Pauline Kael’s 1982 review of Ridley Scott’s futuristic thriller “Blade Runner,” starring Harrison Ford.

Glass eyes, traditional sieves, sails… Specialist makers are working hard to keeping these unique skills alive. By Chris Broughton

Fresh is a new full stack web framework for Deno. By default, Fresh web pages send zero JavaScript to the client.

See: reddit discussion of this post (>50 comments), Tildes discussion of this post (>20 comments)
Also see: cold emails (with examples)

Here’s how Travis Kalanick’s inbox looked like back in 2013:

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If you wanted to reach Travis — and keep…

Read Shakespeare’s plays, sonnets, and poems for free from the Folger Shakespeare Library! Full text, plus summaries, illustrations, guides for reading, and more.

@caitlin Thank you. I’ve checked that I can download a nightly from that link. I’ll stick with 210308 for now; it’s been OK. Perhaps I’ll select a new one every release - the one that’s moved to beta if I can work out when that happens.

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We are pleased to announce today that W3C is to become a public-interest non-profit organization. The design of the new legal entity has been taking several years because of the imperative to preserve the core mission of the Consortium to shepherd the web…

About six weeks ago, on May 19, 2022, GitHub released Math support on Markdown. At the time of the release, it received criticism for being ill-designed and buggy. I, too, wrote a blog post about it.

Learn how to benchmark SQLite and PostgreSQL databases.

Advisory panel decision criticized but WHO will reconsider alert level if outbreak grows

📖 An approachable introduction to Assembly. Contribute to hackclub/some-assembly-required development by creating an account on GitHub.