September 2023, I knew I was in for a wild ride when I won this contract. I already coached other developers in a commercial setting, and I understood what was asked of me. My goal was to get two existing developers comfortable with Haskell while at the

Ever found yourself fixing a problem you weren’t hired to solve? To the point where you’re under qualified? That’s what happened when I dove into firmware. It was my suggestion, nobody asked me to do this, but we needed better scanners, better hardware even, and we couldn’t

I joined the Haskell Stability Working Group about a year ago. I was freshly scarred from a GHC upgrade, so I decided to try improving the situation. I think my first contribution was making an example for GHC nightly builds on GitHub Actions. This allows

For a long time, I’ve been annoyed that cabal tells you to add modules to your cabal file. It can detect missing modules, but won’t automatically add them. This is not a big deal for a single module, but if you like splitting code into many small modules, for example

I’ve updated the esqueleto bindings for esqueleto-textsearch to include a tutorial and documentation so it no longer requires guesswork. Furthermore I’ve also created new esqueleto bindings for PostGIS.

Esqueleto is a more advanced query library that builds on top of the persistent ORM¹. Postgres text search

Villa Katalina in aruba~ is online.

You can book this wonderful rental now! This is the rebranded summerhouse Paradis. It’s a villa that can host up to 8 guests, located in Aruba. I think this rental project is slowly turning out to be successful,

This is a follow-up on the follow up of release rodeo. Okay, I should stop doing these, however, I thought the situation was a bit too ironic not to record. On my final week working for that company ¹, the product manager involved found my original blog

Good news! I’ve come to an agreement with the maintainer of mysql-haskell, winterland. I’ll become a co-maintainer.

What this means in practice is that I’ll deprecate mysql-pure and merge the changes back into mysql-haskell. This will make upgrades far more convenient for users. That’s you! It isn’t

I’ve forked mysql-haskell and persistent-mysql-haskell into mysql-pure and persistent-mysql-pure. The original packages were no longer maintained and frequently caused me issues during GHC upgrades, so I decided to take over maintainership. For example, bounds were outdated, or I needed minor patches found on obscure branches in unrelated repositories.

This is a follow-up on the release rodeo.

After I wrote that blog post, the CTO found it quickly by coincidence. He was quite okay with everything I had written. However, he took issue with that I called his critique “scolding”. I suppose he didn’t exactly scold me. I