Category Archives: writing

Introducing diagrams-haddock

Posted on March 23, 2013 by

I am quite pleased to announce the release of diagrams-haddock, a tool enabling you to easily include programmatically generated diagrams in your Haddock documentation. Why might you want to do this? “A picture is worth a thousand words”—in many instances … Continue reading →

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BlogLiterately 0.6

Posted on March 10, 2013 by

I’m very proud to announce the release of BlogLiterately version 0.6, a tool for formatting and uploading blog posts, including syntax highlighting, generation of ghci sessions, LaTeX support, automatic image uploading, and more. tl;dr: Instead of cumbersomely specifying all options … Continue reading →

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And now, back to your regularly scheduled combinatorial species

Posted on October 17, 2012 by

I’ve already mentioned this to people here and there, but haven’t yet announced it publically, so here it is: Stephanie Weirich and I have been awarded a grant from the NSF to study the intersection of combinatorial species and (functional) … Continue reading →

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Creating documents with embedded diagrams

Posted on August 28, 2012 by

If you read my recent post about type algebra, you may have wondered how I got all those nice images in there. Surely creating the images and then inserting them into the post by hand would be rather tedious! Indeed, … Continue reading →

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BlogLiterately 0.5.2 release, with improved image uploading

Posted on August 26, 2012 by

Just a quick note to say that I’ve just released version 0.5.2 of BlogLiterately. (For more information about what it does, see what I’ve written about previous releases here and here, and the documentation.) The new version keeps track of … Continue reading →

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BlogLiterately 0.5 release

Posted on July 7, 2012 by

I have now released version 0.5 of BlogLiterately. (You can read about the 0.4 release here.) This version does uploading of images! Here is proof: d’awww. (My previous post explains the problem and solution with image uploads.) It also allows … Continue reading →

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BlogLiterately 0.4 release

Posted on July 2, 2012 by

I have just released version 0.4 of BlogLiterately, a tool for authoring and uploading blog posts (especially Haskelly ones). Rob Greayer authored the first few versions of this useful tool, for which I’m very thankful. However, he doesn’t have the … Continue reading →

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Typeclassopedia v2: moving my efforts to the Haskell wiki

Posted on November 26, 2011 by

I said back in April that I was going to be working on a second edition of the Typeclassopedia. Since then I have worked on it some, but mostly I’ve dithered trying to work out a toolchain for publishing it … Continue reading →

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Good toolchain for writing a user manual?

Posted on June 10, 2011 by

It’s time to start writing a user manual for diagrams. Haddock documentation is great when you have only, say, forgotten the type of the frobnitz function. However, it is woefully inadequate when you are just trying to figure out how … Continue reading →

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Call for contributions: second edition of the Typeclassopedia

Posted on April 3, 2011 by

The Typeclassopedia, by all accounts, has turned out to be a popular and useful resource for Haskell programmers. I’ve been thinking for a while about putting out a revised and expanded second edition, and it’s finally time. Planned changes include: … Continue reading →

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