The semi-complete retelling of a debugging adventure involving sed, Windows, Haskell, and Stack. Come enjoy the ride!

Slice is a JavaScript library on npm that brings Python's extended slice syntax and negative indexing to JavaScript. This write-up explains in detail how Slice was built using ES6 Proxies, and serves as an interesting use-case of how you can use the Proxy…

A neural network from Google's DeepMind has impressive spatial reasoning skills.

If you’ve been on the internet today, you’ve probably interacted with a neural network. They’re a type of machine learning algorithm that’s used for everything from language translation to finance modeling. One of their specialties is image recognition. Several…

I’m really excited to announce the culmination of much of our work over the last four months: a pair of RFCs for supporting async & await notation in Rust. This will be very impactful for …

The Rockstar programming language specification. Contribute to dylanbeattie/rockstar development by creating an account on GitHub.

Paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/1804.03160
More info: http://sound-of-pixels.csail.mit.edu/
http://news.mit.edu/2018/ai-editing-music-videos-pixelplayer-csail-0705

Grain is a new programming language that puts academic language features to work.

If you're having trouble fixing *anything*, try one of these strategies.

<span>M</span>any linguists believe that the natural language a person speaks <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linguistic_relativity" target="_blank">affects how they think</a>. Does the same concept apply to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/…

Everything is going to hell and nobody seems to care

Rust is an imperative systems programming language. Why does it have so much attention from functional programming advocates? Is it hiding a functional nature?

This post & its related materials were prepared for a July 26, 2018 lightning talk event co-hosted by Enigma and Women Who Code NYC!