Category Archives: meta

New ko-fi page: help me attend ICFP!

Posted on May 22, 2023 by Brent

tl;dr: if you appreciate my past or ongoing contributions to the Haskell community, please consider helping me get to ICFP by donating via my new ko-fi page! Working at a small liberal arts institution has some tremendous benefits (close interaction … Continue reading →

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Hendrix teams at ACM ICPC

Posted on November 4, 2018 by Brent

Today I took five students from Hendrix to Fort Smith to compete in the Mid-Central USA Regional of the ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest (ICPC). Both teams solved five out of ten problems, and finished second and fourth out of … Continue reading →

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Ertugrul Söylemez: 1985-2018

Posted on May 21, 2018 by Brent

I do not know many details, but IRC user mupf joined the #haskell-ops channel yesterday to tell us that Ertugrul Söylemez died unexpectedly on May 12. This is a great loss for the Haskell community. Going variously by mm_freak, ertes, … Continue reading →

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Future of Coding podcast interview

Posted on May 19, 2018 by Brent

I recently did an interview with my friend and former student Steve Krouse for his Future of Coding podcast. I think I still agree with almost everything I said, and I didn’t say anything too embarrassing, so if you want … Continue reading →

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Apply to attend the Oregon Programming Languages Summer School!

Posted on May 8, 2018 by Brent

Although the official deadline has passed, I hear there are still a few spots left for the Oregon Programming Languages Summer School (OPLSS), hosted at the University of Oregon in Eugene. This is a really fantastic opportunity to take a … Continue reading →

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Call for submissions: FARM 2018

Posted on April 23, 2018 by Brent

I’m the general chair this year for the ACM SIGPLAN International Workshop on Functional Art, Music, Modelling and Design (better known as FARM), which will be colocated with ICFP this September in St. Louis, Missouri, USA. The goal of the workshop … Continue reading →

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Beeminder guest post on Beeminding All The Things

Posted on March 5, 2018 by Brent

I’ve written about my use of Beeminder a few times here before. I just wrote a guest post for the Beeminder blog entitled Beeminding All The Things, in which I explain some lessons learned and best practices for dealing with … Continue reading →

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Visiting assistant professor position at Hendrix

Posted on February 24, 2018 by Brent

My department at Hendrix College is hiring a 1-year visitor in CS for next year. This is my third year at Hendrix and I really love it—the department is friendly and supportive, the administration really cares about faculty and students, … Continue reading →

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New baby, and Haskell Alphabet

Posted on September 21, 2017 by Brent

My wife and I just had a baby! If you missed seeing me at ICFP, this is why. In honor of my son’s birth (he will need to learn the alphabet and Haskell soon)—and at the instigation of Kenny Foner—I … Continue reading →

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Submit to the Workshop on Type-Driven Development!

Posted on April 4, 2017 by Brent

This year I am the co-chair (with Sam Lindley) of the Workshop on Type-Driven Development, affectionately known as TyDe1. The workshop will be co-located with ICFP in Oxford, and is devoted to the use of “static type information…used effectively in … Continue reading →

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