Interesting Things

Projects

• rust-lang.org. Rust is great (if verbose 😉)
• gleam. Nice functional language with a rusty feel and pipelines

Blogs

• kerkour.com. Simple things creator who evangelises for Rust (most of the time)
• Haskell For All. A sensible software engineering blog with a Haskell-y bent
• Practical Betterments posts with hacks to make your life a bit easier, written in a funny style with great drawings.

Specific Posts / Talks

• grugbrain.dev Amusing treatise on modern software development that I agree with a lot!
• Simple Made Easy Great talk from Rich Hickey about the difference between “simple” and “easy”
• Parse Don’t Validate. This should be required reading for those working in languages where the paradigm is possible.
• What Color is your function? An oldie but a goodie.

Software Books

• A Philosophy of Software Design. My favourite book on how to design software… “Complexity is the enemy”