What is a null coalescing operator but a poor man’s monad? What is a pipeline operator but a poor man’s method call?

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

F35 ran into an CAS A-10 squad leader and got brutally airframe mogged

Another programming puzzle for the weekend! programmingpuzzles.com/puzzles/013-... Let's see your answers in the comments below!

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-...

Tickets for Func Prog Conf 2026 are live! 🥳 We sold out last year—get your ticket while they’re still available! funcprogconf.com

if you want to write really clean code, you need to use vim

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-...

chat, how cooked am i?

gnu reports AGI has been achieved internally

that feeling when your conference talk is rejected

Can you solve this week’s programming puzzle? Share your solution in the comments below! programmingpuzzles.com/puzzles/010-...

finally, a soda that supports modal editing

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-...

It's Friday—time for another programming puzzle! programmingpuzzles.com/puzzles/008-...

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

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

my wife

> be me, an europoor > buy soda in plastic bottle > tear off the cap because I’m My Own Man, brussels goons can’t tell me how to live my life > immediately lose the cap, can’t close bottle > fuck my eurochungus life

I did a talk about why (pure) functional programming matters at Func Prog Sweden! youtu.be/8p5acyD8lGs?...

We are looking for Haskell developers in Stockholm! Do you have prior industrial experience with Haskell or any other functional programming language? Then you should apply for this position! DM me or apply at the link below! functionalsoftware.se/jobs/haskell...

New episode of the Func Prog Podcast! In this episode I interview @tritlo.bsky.social—we cover Haskell, LLMs, program synthesis and, of course, deadlifts! Listen below 👇

Are you a Django wrangler looking for your next adventure? Then I have the job for you! If you’re looking for a new adventure and are based in or around Stockholm, Sweden, send me a DM!

did you know you can edit the current Claude Code prompt with Ctrl-G? this defaults to opening VSCode, but it respects your $EDITOR setting

what are people using for email automation nowadays? i basically just want to send emails to a list, with good deliverability; i don’t really care about any marketing features or transactional email. too broke for mailchimp.

How to implement a tiny functional language in Scala by Sergei Winitzki. Looks really interesting! youtube.com/playlist?lis...

what’s stopping you from coding like this?

boy dinner

Yesterday we hosted the very first edition of Func Prog Conf, and I'm very happy about how everything turned out! The speakers all delivered stellar performances and the mood was great. I hope everyone enjoyed the "hallway track" as much as I did!

a lot of communist theory is flawed because it rests on the assumption that wealth is a common good that just exists, and that "capitalists" are simply rent-seekers who extract value from it. however, in the digital world, this is much closer to the truth

New episode of the Func Prog Podcast! In this episode, I talk with Almir Mesic about F#—the language that brings functional programming to .NET. If you're curious about F#, this episode includes a listener-only promo code for his F# course! Links below 👇

people say they hate laptops in cafes. i love it. especially when someone has a half-full coffee next to them, that has been cold and stale at least an hour ago. mf locked in for real. i love it.

when buying cleaning products, always get the one with the skull—if the product without the skull would have worked, there would be no point in the one with the skull

the zen of lifting—when your mind is concerned with nothing but the next rep

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