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ES Modules are terrible, actually

This post was adapted from an earlier Twitter thread.

It's incredible how many collective developer hours have been wasted on pushing through the turd that is ES Modules (often mistakenly called "ES6 Modules"). Causing a big ecosystem divide and massive tooling support issues, for... well, no reason, really. There are no actual advantages to it. At all.

It looks shiny and new and some libraries use it in their documentation without any explanation, so people assume that it's the new thing that must be used. And then I end up having to explain to them why, unlike CommonJS, it doesn't actually work everywhere yet, and may never do so. For example, you can't import ESM modules from a CommonJS file! (Update: I've released a module that works around this issue.)

And then there's Rollup, which apparently requires ESM to be u

Let's Destroy C

I have a pet project I work on, every now and then. CNoEvil.

The concept is simple enough.

What if, for a moment, we forgot all the rules we know. That we ignore every good idea, and accept all the terrible ones. That nothing is off limits. Can we turn C into a new language? Can we do what Lisp and Forth let the over-eager programmer do, but in C?

Monoids in Haskell, an Introduction

Why should programmers care about Monoids? Because Monoids are a common pattern that shows up over and over in programming. And when patterns show up, we can abstract them and leverage work we've done in the past. This allows us to quickly develop solutions on top of proven, stable code.

Add Commutative Property to a Monoid (Commutative Monoid) and you have something that can be executed in parallel. With the end of Moore's Law, parallelism is our only hope to increasing processing speeds.

What follows is what I've learned after studying Monoids. It is hardly complete, but hopefully will prove to be helpful as an introduction for others.

Monoid Lineage

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Help

:help - main help portal (with links to more help pages)
:viusage - show a huge cheat sheet listing every command

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A composable pattern for pure state machines with effects

State machines are everywhere in interactive systems, but they're rarely defined clearly and explicitly. Given some big blob of code including implicit state machines, which transitions are possible and under what conditions? What effects take place on what transitions?

There are existing design patterns for state machines, but all the patterns I've seen complect side effects with the structure of the state machine itself. Instances of these patterns are difficult to test without mocking, and they end up with more dependencies. Worse, the classic patterns compose poorly: hierarchical state machines are typically not straightforward extensions. The functional programming world has solutions, but they don't transpose neatly enough to be broadly usable in mainstream languages.

Here I present a composable pattern for pure state machiness with effects,

	module Traits exposing (..)


	type GameState
	= State


	{-\| FireTrait defines how the game state is updated for any kind of shooting
	event.
	's' is the state implementation parameter,

	import * as admin from 'firebase-admin'
	import * as functions from 'firebase-functions'

	admin.initializeApp(functions.config().firebase)
	const db = admin.firestore()

	async function writeIntegerVersion(event) {
	const ref = event.data.ref
	if (ref.path.indexOf('/_versions/') >= 0) {
	return false

	http://stackoverflow.com/questions/22667401/postgres-json-data-type-rails-query
	http://stackoverflow.com/questions/40702813/query-on-postgres-json-array-field-in-rails

	#payload: [{"kind"=>"person"}]
	Segment.where("payload @> ?", [{kind: "person"}].to_json)

	#data: {"interest"=>["music", "movies", "programming"]}
	Segment.where("data @> ?", {"interest": ["music", "movies", "programming"]}.to_json)
	Segment.where("data #>> '{interest, 1}' = 'movies' ")
	Segment.where("jsonb_array_length(data->'interest') > 1")

	import Html exposing (Html, p, label, br, input)
	import Html.App as Html
	import Html.Attributes exposing (checked)
	import Html.Events exposing (onCheck)
	import Svg exposing (..)
	import Svg.Attributes exposing (..)
	import Time exposing (Time, second)


	main =

	CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS words (
	word text
	);

	CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS product (
	product_id int not null,
	name text not null,
	description text not null,
	price decimal(12,2),
	attributes jsonb,