Today I’ve noticed that I’ve written 36 articles to date here, which beats my previous annual record of 34 articles from 2011. I definitely didn’t see this coming, especially given how tough the ye...

Lots of programming languages have some built-in range functionality, that’s typically used to generate a list/array of integer numbers. Here are a couple of examples from Ruby and Clojure: # This...

Many people are quite surprised when I tell them that my primary computer is a custom-built desktop PC, that I assembled myself. After all, desktops have been going out of fashion for over a decade...

Yesterday I had a very frustrating start of my day for the most unexpected of reasons - a (supposedly) simple CPU cooler upgrade for my desktop computer turned into a nightmare. It was also a very ...

While playing with OCaml I was surprised to learn there’s no built-in function to convert a string to a list of its characters. Admittedly, that’s not something you need very often, but it does com...

Lately I’ve been having some weird problems with CircleCI and some of my OSS projects (most recently CIDER) - the SSH checkout keys that CircleCI uses to fetch the code from GitHub started to disap...

Today I’ve noticed that Oh My Zsh provides one really useful command (implemented as a shell function) - take. I guess with a name like this it’s not immediately obvious what the command does, but ...

I’ve been using Zsh on-and-off for a very long time (15+ years), but I still occasionally learn something new about it.1 Yesterday I was setting up oh-my-zsh on a new computer and I’ve noticed they...

Many programming languages have a function for combining the elements of multiple collections (e.g. arrays or lists) together. Typically this function is named zip. Here’s an example from Haskell: ...

You never get a second chance to make a first impression. Lately I’ve been learning OCaml and I thought it might be a good time to share a few initial impressions, while they are still fresh. Of ...