Using Haskell on Windows can be very useful in a WAMP like situation, where the main legacy codebase is stuck at PHP 5.6¹ . However, any new pages can be written with Haskell, which is much easier to upgrade since the compiler will inform you about most changes. New

In the beginning, there was nothing. We merged completed features after a month or so of development, leading to large PRs and often unexpected implementations. Then, feature flags were introduced. This allowed the merging of code in chunks, enabling QA to test thoroughly. The people in charge could

As a founder of raster.click, I was passionate about providing rostering systems for restaurants that were easy to use and affordable. I worked hard to build a functional product that our users loved, and I was proud to have three paying customers (eg restaurants) and around 90

This is a quick after action report on restoring backups. This is mostly for future me to know what I did.

The backup scripts on the main server stopped working. The IT person at that company had already figured out this was because of the database not booting on the

One thing that always surprises me is how casually serious problems are phrased by business people in their blissful ignorance. “Hey why am I seeing the down for maintenance screen?” “Oh try it now, the pack uploading has finished”, Said the QA engineer to the

This post tracks the progress of a rental property I bought on Aruba. The goal is to rent it out short term to tourists. This video gives a rough overview of the current status:

Summerhouse paradis on aruba vlog: Colors, mold and a hole

A week later and we’re starting

My motivation for blogging has changed over time. I’d like to revisit my initial reason, and discuss how this changed while maintaining the blog. After all I keep posting articles on here, something has to keep me going right?

We can read my original motivation. The initial goal was

This blog post and after action report is three months overdue, but I participated in Zurich hack 2022. Zurich hack is a voluntary hackaton organized in Rapperswil-Jona ¹, with as theme improving the Haskell ecosystem and socializing. Naturally I chose to work on the

Over the weekend a company had a power outage, causing corruption to the on premise hosted mysql innodb database. This means the company can’t do any work, so I had to fix this fast before they opened again on Monday. It’s not trivial because the system runs on windows, which

Recently I encountered some dubious error handling code. Not only was it failing, it was failing WRONG ¹. This frustrates me because doing failing correctly in Haskell is quite easy, so why was it implemented wrongly? I believe no-one has addressed failing