Archive - Bit Maybe Wise

Welcome to the ABEND dump, the issue where I share the most interesting content I’ve been reading, listening to, and watching lately. I’m back from…

Apr 9 •

Hercules Merscher

January 2024

Paul Graham essays, more Haskell, OCaml, how GitLab does major PG upgrades, and an anime/mangá recommendation?

Jan 26 •

Hercules Merscher

On rewriting a Go command-line program in Haskell

As promised in my previous post, I decided to share here my experience of using Haskell for some mundane practical tasks. If you haven’t read my…

Jan 23 •

Hercules Merscher

Revisiting Haskell after 10 years

Perspective on experimenting with Haskell again after almost 10 years

Jan 15 •

Hercules Merscher

December 2023

Haskell, OpenAI drama, chasing performance, five nines, and PromCon 2023

Dec 5, 2023 •

Hercules Merscher

September 2023

Computer inception, Richie Rickey retiring, and advice from Bjarne Stroustroup to young programmers

Sep 4, 2023 •

Hercules Merscher

August 2023

Lessons in Reliability: Margaret Hamilton's Software Engineering Approach

Mistakes will happen, eventually, no matter how much training. Margaret Hamilton knew that!

Aug 10, 2023 •

Hercules Merscher

July 2023

After some vacationing, the ABEND dump is back

Jul 10, 2023 •

Hercules Merscher

May 2023

Don't obsess about choosing a first programming language, be water!

Does it matter the first programming language I choose? Or doesn't it?

May 2, 2023 •

Hercules Merscher

April 2023

HTTP2 little surprise, Prometheus, culture vs strategy, and how to produce and learn at the same time

Apr 17, 2023 •

Hercules Merscher

SRE book notes: Wrapping Up

So, after a long vacation break, it has come to an end. I wish I had read this book before. Still actual to this day. So much experience condensed in a…

Apr 13, 2023 •

Hercules Merscher

February 2023

SRE book notes: Communication and Collaboration in SRE

The one thing we can say about collaboration is that your chances of successful collaboration are improved by having more diversity in your team

Feb 27, 2023 •

Hercules Merscher

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