I was interested in the economics of the Haskell programming language. I thought I would start by understanding better Haskell consultancies. (Updated in January 2026.) The economics of programming languages In September 2023, Evan Czaplicki (the designer of Elm, another purely functional programming language) gave a thought-provoking talk on the economics of programming languages at […]
OverloadedRecordDot in GHC
GHC’s OverloadedRecordDot language extension provides a dot (.) syntax to refer to the field of a record expression. I was interested in the history of that development. History Key events in the history are:
Internal storage
I had shifted Haskell onto 1 TB of external storage, but my Dell XPS 13 9360’s 220 GB SSD was still nearly full to bursting. Emboldened by replacing the laptop’s battery, I looked to replace the SSD. It turned out to be straightforward. Storage Dell’s Setup and Specifications referred to ‘up to 1 TB PCIe/NVMe […]
Recharging batteries
My Dell XPS 13 9360 laptop will be seven this September. Recently, Dell Power Manager began alerting me that its battery could no longer provide sufficient power to the system and needed to be replaced. So, I set about doing that. Guidance I found two helpful videos, one by Yu Felix from May 2022 and […]