Category Archives: projects

A (work in progress) translation of Joyal’s original paper on species

Posted on February 13, 2018 by

tl;dr: I’m working on an English translation, with additional commentary, of Joyal’s 1981 paper introducing the concept of combinatorial species. Collaboration and feedback welcome! Back when I was writing my PhD thesis on combinatorial species, I was aware that André … Continue reading →

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Off the Beaten Track: Explaining Type Errors

Posted on January 21, 2018 by

Last week I gave a talk at Off the Beaten Track 2018 about something that Richard Eisenberg, Harley Eades and I have been thinking about recently: namely, how to generate good interactive error explanations for programmers, especially for type errors. … Continue reading →

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MonadRandom 0.5 released

Posted on January 3, 2017 by

I’m happy to announce the release of MonadRandom-0.5, a package which provides a convenient monadic interface for random number generation in the style of transformers and mtl: a Rand monad (essentially a state monad that threads through a generator), a … Continue reading →

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MonadRandom 0.5 and mwc-random: feedback wanted

Posted on November 16, 2016 by

Since 2013 or so I have been the maintainer of the MonadRandom package, which provides an mtl-style type class for monads with support for generation of pseudorandom values, along with a concrete random monad transformer RandT. As of this writing … Continue reading →

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Diagrams 1.0

Posted on January 17, 2014 by

The diagrams team is very pleased to announce the 1.0 release of diagrams, a framework and embedded domain-specific language for declarative drawing in Haskell. Check out the gallery for some examples of what it can do. Diagrams can be used … Continue reading →

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Diagrams 0.6

Posted on December 11, 2012 by

I am pleased to announce the release of version 0.6 of diagrams, a full-featured framework and embedded domain-specific language for declarative drawing. Check out the gallery for examples of what it can do! Highlights of this release include: Diagrams now … 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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