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show me OCaml | an https://t.co/8e1icJBB76 maintainer | RFC 3339 dating coach | maybe not a sith lord | former overqualified seΓ±or meme developer | 5β¬ VPS kid
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OCaml is insane because it appears to be one of the most legitimately pragmatic languages with the potential to gigafry your brain but is exclusively pushed by literally some of the friendliest developers who unironically want to like "write better software" and basically get.
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I'm am literally crying after reading this email π₯Ήπ. contributing to this MUD when I was at home with my first baby is what put me on a path of building things and making my own decisions, after having spent the previous decade of my life looking smart and following the path
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always ask yourself whether the code you're writing is a garlic crusher.
A garlic crusher is not worth the hassle of cleaning the garlic crusher.
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oh husbandt, instead of contributing to the OCaml ecosystem, you decided to fork the OCaml compiler, now we are homeress
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you befriend a guy and a few days later heβs like βi wanna talk to you about somethingβ please god let it be about OCaml.
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communities where people identify as very smart have a huge vulnerability to butthurt. do you agree / disagree?.
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The ADHD stack:. AlpineJS.Dream - OCaml web framework.HTMX (same thing).D3.js. This is going to be big.
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people debating UUIDs vs natural keys π€·.
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btw I just found out that there's also an OCaml textbook from 2021 created at Saarland Uni by Prof. Gert Smolka:. "Introduction to Functional Programming and the Structure of Programming Languages using OCaml". incidentally that's the prof that taught me.
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I like working with smart people who have empathy. Empathy for the people who care about shipping a cool thing for people to use. Empathy for those who have to maintain the codebase after they're gone. Empathy for those who have to use the tools they build. And that means.
> Smart people often write the worst code because they're more comfortable with complexity. And this is so annoying. They have an impenetrable defense strategy: it's not their problem, it's your problem that you are dumb. You're the bad engineer here no matter what.
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Btw someone nice from @JaneStreetGroup sent me this after I mentioned that I think it looks so cool π₯π«π₯Ή. I like to look at this
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Making a state machine in js without OCaml/reason pattern matching. Canβt believe some people live like this. So natural to match on. | (curState, Event) => nextState. And have the type checker make sure you covered all the cases.
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I have proof that I did it
well anyways, I am doing this camel ride and dinner thing. after all, fear of heights also got better with exposure π€·.
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lmao at all the rust developers calling to_string on strings wtf cringe. oh String::from a string yes i see very cool mmm yes.
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I'm officially another year older today. here's to another year of being physically fitter than I ever was and actually taking the time to do fun things and try scary new things. Over the last 11 years I didn't have many opportunities in that regard. I'm still officially fat but
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making ASTs the foundational representation of code would solve all whitespace and formatting related code review issues.
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Hey Twitter Algorithm, I would like to connect with people who work in these fields:. - OCaml Core Developer.- OCaml Developer.- OCaml-Curious Developer.- Currying Connoisseur.- Pattern Matching Ninja.- OCaml Shitposter.- OCaml Propagandist.- OCaml Evangelist.- Functor Enthusiast.
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it is better to code and refactor than to never have coded at all.
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it is OCaml only if it comes from the Paris region of France. otherwise it is just sparkling Hindley-Milner, camel-branded functional programming.
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OCaml has been in this weird position where, over decades,. it has stolen people's hearts with its flexible semantics. and broke them with the lack of tooling and ecosystem. so the recent activity where people step up and build, and work on tooling is coming together, makes me so.
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if you were me, you would, too.
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september 30, 2014, after I quit postdoc, I was about to go down a rabbit hole that turns out way deep. this is the photo I took for my project's about page
10 years at netflix this week. december 4th, 2013, first day at netflix, here was the photo they took
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i won't lie im ocaml curious.
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when I get frustrated again about not progressing in getting fitter, please remind me of this xeet. this is two months of treadmill, extremely low key kettlebell, and unknown calorie deficit. feeling like I'm kind of between fat and thicc now π€·π
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tempting: when a Java developer asks for my number
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Daily reminder that OCaml is actually a great language with a growing ecosystem.
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just in case you were wondering why OCaml is trending
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why do all the Java developers like fat backends so much? π€.
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i fell in love with a guy once. unrequited. i was so shy. his family owned an OCaml consultancy and i would go most Saturdays to write OCaml and yearn. friends would accompany me and encourage me to talk to him. never did. but every Sat i open utop for my kids
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I'm demisexual. I don't care about a programming language's syntax, or if it's popular. I have to get to know the language and develop an emotional connection first. Only when it feels right, I might develop an attraction to its syntax.
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this is going to blow your mind but installing OCaml doesn't actually give you a camel.
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just an average day of @thdxr telling you to get better
to build an extremely high quality app you have no choice but to be good at writing client side js regardless of what your backend is in. itβs the main reason why people obsessed with hating on js cannot ship quality.
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when I was in elementary school, my teacher asked my mother to practice reading with me, which puzzled her because I had been reading since I was 4,5yo. turns out I thought that, at school, the proper way to read out loud was to do it slowly and in a way that appears as if I'm.
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In case you were wondering about the tragic backstory between Haskell and OCaml:. I came across this confirmed 100% historically accurate source at
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Ah, October! π Behold, the month where the leaves turn a golden hue and the air is kissed with the first hints of frost. But do you know what's even more exquisite than Mother Nature's grandeur? October is none other than the illustrious OCaml Awareness Month. π. When you think
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Doing Advent of OCaml 2023?. Reply so I can add you to the list.
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okay, so the tagline on the current OCaml Homepage is. "OCaml. An industrial-strength functional programming language with an emphasis on expressiveness and safety". buuuut we want to improve on this. drop some π₯ ideas π (jokes welcome)
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after I did a bunch of this, the admins surprised me with a little ceremony where they (in-game) solemnly handed me a broom to signify my appointment to the utmost honor: becoming a janitor of the code π€£ it was hilarious and so very sweet.
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to fix the FTP server, I actually read the corresponding RFC. oh man that were times, how is my memory so shit that I forgot about all this? π.
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ok u did it. 3000 amazing people! π«. I'm going to get myself assessed for ADHD and autism in 2024. curious about the outcome of that
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Sorry gonna be off this app for the rest of today, I am with some real work (the paid kind). I wouldn't expect any of you to understand. We're going to implement Figma designs for the Learn area, so please don't DM me asking me where I am (I'm with the.
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Fun fact: there's more than one production-ready web framework in OCaml. I like to imagine this is how it went down:
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I'm pretty happy about this graph, especially because I seem to have managed to do this without becoming significantly weaker. (might have become a little bit stronger, but not much, if even)
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how do you cope when your code is too DRY?.
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Don't be afraid, angel, I'm just here to tempt them to try OCaml.
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ngl if I were any consistent with this, I would be both jacked and slender by now π. but tbh, since I'm making progress even in inconsistency and I'm not aiming for hollywood standards, I feel happy about where I'm at now
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tempted to go to go sing karaoke on Thursday in the local Irish pub, dressed up like this. (I think it would be fun). any recommendations what to sing?
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ok so this will be a super short first time stream, and I can't promise it's working - I have never streamed before, so it's going to be chaos. with some luck we're fixing a bug in the documentation generation, or at least getting close enough to know how to fix it
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with great pleasure I inform you that these software dev twitch emotes are now a thing:. - BuildBuildBuild.- Focus
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One lie, two truths. 1. I dropped out of school and later did a PhD. 2. I own a watercooled 64-core CPU. 3. I write OCaml at my remote job.
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βοΈ working remotely full-time in open source writing OCaml π«.βοΈ reworking the package documentation area and various improvements on βοΈ figuring out how to create reasonable issues for external contributors and working with them via feedback in pull.
BRAG ABOUT SOMETHING YOUβRE PROUD OF ACCOMPLISHING IN 2023 β¨β¨β¨β¨β¨β¨β¨β¨β¨β¨β¨β¨β¨β¨β¨β¨β¨β¨β¨β¨β¨β¨β¨β¨β¨β¨β¨β¨.
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when we start talking about OCaml, some people's eyes light up
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Hindley-Milner type systems don't suffer this issue. Glad we have variant types to pattern match on in OCaml. π₯Ή.
This is a common mistake. Type predicates (like 'pet is Fish' below) are no safer than 'as'. You could say 'pet is Bird' and TypeScript wouldn't catch the difference. I've started using them less in my code.
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Yup, anyone who isn't sure about OCaml syntax. do try Reason, it could feel more familiar depending on what languages you've used.
@oriSomething @sabine_s_ Yeah, I was kind of ignoring the whole Clojure/elm/rescript area :) I'm more curious about having a "real language", so this idea that Reason is just a different syntax for OCaml sounds more attractive :).
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while you were stuck doomscrolling the latest tech gossip. hot OCaml devs were busy building a SaaS stack for your mom.
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I didn't expect anything when I submitted my proposal, and I only checked my other email today to be surprised by this!. Here we go. π₯π₯π₯. I'll be speaking at @BOBKonf 2024 in Berlin, March 15 on. End-to-end Type-Safety with Your Own API Spec DSL. I am positively terrified
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@abookofsymbols it gets really freaky when you notice this happen inside yourself, reacting more favorably to people who are hotter (in looks or behavior). clearly it makes sense to treat everyone well, no matter what they look or their struggles, and to make decisions not based on attraction.
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It blows my mind that people apply for a senior developer position without even scratching the surface of OCaml's algebraic data types.
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idk if this is a mistake but I am installing factorio now.
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just closed 423 tabs and 9 tab groups. AMA.
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people just being really excited about Jane Street's work on adding memory modes to OCaml π₯Ήπ«.
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Here's a survey for those of you who have not tried OCaml yet. It's asking some questions about what your perception of OCaml is and what it would take for you to try OCaml. Thanks for helping us!.
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you know, when I thought of myself as very smart and placed intelligence as the highest value, this had some interesting consequences:. - I worked hard in order to maintain the public perception of my intelligence.- being criticized hurt a lot bc it challenged my self-concept and.
ok so taking this test made me think about how much of my identity is actually based on the idea of "being intelligent" and how tremendously that affected my life so far (in good ways and bad ways). context: I did my first IQ test at 7yo after vocally complaining in the first.
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Elm is really awesome bc it's intentionally simpler than Haskell or OCaml or F# and it has a friendly community and a very focused ecosystem. it does make a great starter language to get into FP before moving on to a more powerful language!.
@welltypedwitch Super fair. I think in the event that I do go with OCaml, I would probably teach them Reason syntax just bc it feels a bit simpler. But in my mind Elm is like Haskell-mini which feels ideal if the goal is to prepare them to eventually move on to Haskell or OCaml.
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I used to be an adventurer like you.
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The OCaml Platform Roadmap is Adopted π₯π«.
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if you haven't tried Dune Developer Preview, you really should. link β¬οΈ
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this is your unsolicited reminder that OCaml is an interesting language π«.
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roll call:. who's going to do Advent of Code in OCaml? ππ«. (making a list π)
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@leostera I just think that taking any extreme position (e.g. believing in some kind of silver bullet) puts people in a mindspace that prevents them from seeing simpler solutions.
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These are so super cute, thanks Sam! π€©. Gonna be an official OCaml Propagandist now - for real.
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I just want you to know that there's never a good reason to give up trying. life isn't over at 30, 40, 50, 60, etc (unless u die first). u can do things, stop overthinking and go do something.
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