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Christopher Rybicki
Personal blog · rybicki.io/blogprogrammingphilosophy
Christopher Rybicki writes functional fascinations, a personal blog at rybicki.io about programming and philosophy. Since 2023, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 10 times, most often “Why JavaScript promises aren't technically monads”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-08-19, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this post to argue that promises are not monads, a point about functional programming types. The single comment cites it as support for that claim.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Christopher Rybicki is a senior software engineer and passionate open-source builder.
Most-linked posts?
- Why JavaScript promises aren't technically monads2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-12-27
What Hacker News says?
Here's my site! https://rybicki.io/
Comment linking /
on “Ask HN: Could you share your personal website here?”Submitted Exploring biphasic programming: a new approach in language design as a story · 125 points
HN discussionYes, but promises are (unfortunately) _not_ monads! https://rybicki.io/blog/2023/12/23/promises-arent-monads.htm...
Comment linking /blog/2023/12/23/promises-arent-monads.html
on “Show HN: Tired of logic in useEffect, I built a class-based React state manager”Submitted Show HN: How to program an Arduino using Rust (on macOS) as a story · 24 points
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