Haskell Weekly

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Simple Haskell Handbook with Marco Sampellegrini Jun 01, 2021

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Special guest Marco Sampellegrini talks with us about his recent book, The Simple Haskell Handbook. The book describes a project driven approach to Haskell development, using a continuous integration server as a motivating example.

https://leanpub.com/simple-haskell-book

Module Organization Guidelines May 24, 2021

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Should you organize modules vertically or horizontally? This week we take a look at another article by Gabriella Gonzalez, this time about organizing projects and packages.

https://www.haskellforall.com/2021/05/module-organization-guidelines-for.html

Avoiding Nested Errors May 10, 2021

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How can you avoid deeply nested error handling code? This week we review Gabriella Gonzalez’s trick for keeping error handling flat.

https://www.haskellforall.com/2021/05/the-trick-to-avoid-deeply-nested-error.html

Haskell Foundation with Andrew Boardman May 04, 2021

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Curious about the Haskell Foundation? This week we interview Andrew Boardman, its Executive Director. He explains the Foundation’s purpose and how you can help.

Default Exception Handlers Apr 19, 2021

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What happens to exceptions when you don’t explicitly handle them? This week we review Taylor’s blog post about default exception handlers.

https://taylor.fausak.me/2021/04/03/default-exception-handler-in-haskell/

Async Exceptions Mar 29, 2021

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Special guest Cody Goodman walks us through an interesting PostgreSQL bug. Handling async exceptions properly is trickier than you might expect!

Unified Vector Mar 22, 2021

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Byte string, text, and vector, oh my! This week we review Michael Snoyman’s proposal to unify vector-like types. Learn about boxed versus unboxed values, pinned versus unpinned memory, and more.

https://www.snoyman.com/blog/2021/04/haskell-base-proposal/

Chat Wisely Mar 17, 2021

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Special guests Michael Litchard and Brian Hurt talk with us about their new social networking site Chat Wisely. We hear about their experience using Haskell not only on the backend but also on the frontend through GHCJS.

Haskell Wingman with Sandy Maguire Mar 08, 2021

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Special guest Sandy Maguire talks with us about using Haskell Wingman for program synthesis, designing bulletproof abstractions with algebra, wrangling type level programming in Haskell, and managing effects with his Polysemy library.