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Custom Software Development Solutions: Digital Solutions Consulting, Product Design, Reliable Software Development, Tech is the company blog at typeable.io, writing about programming. Since 2021, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 12 times, most often “Useful Tools Written in Haskell”. The last post was in 2022, but the archive is still widely read.

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12mentions?
6HN people?
2021–2023first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 10 in 2021

Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

HN readers link Typeable's posts as references on Haskell in practice and on SQL sum types. The comments cite them as sources, such as a list of useful tools written in Haskell.

Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.

Software development consulting: functional programming (Haskell, Elm), fintech, biotech, travel, development tools.

Most-linked posts?

  1. Useful Tools Written in Haskell
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-11-03

What Hacker News says?

  1. Haskell is used in one "not real world" project doesn't mean it can't be used in "real world" projects. Here is an article titled 7 Useful Tools Written in Haskell: https://typeable.io/blog/2021-10-18-haskell-tools

    Comment linking /blog/2021-10-18-haskell-tools

    on “Why Co–Star Uses Haskell”
  2. Submitted Is Haskell a good choice for software security? as a story · 46 points

    HN discussion
  3. Just an idea: this or something similar could be utilized to generate test vectors, for property based testing [0]. Also for model-based testing, if you consider the model to be a vector of actions [1] Currently, AFAIK, property based testing relies on mostly random generation of input vectors. It's possible to "shape" those vectors into other data structures such as trees [2] and it's the way it's usually done, but…

    Comment linking /blog/2021-08-09-pbt

    on “Show HN: MarkovJunior, PPL based on pattern matching and constraint propagation”
  4. Submitted Useful Tools Written in Haskell as a story · 13 points

    HN discussion
  5. This is my pet peeve with SQL. I hope some day PostgreSQL gain support for native tagged unions. I have saved some links about this https://github.com/solidsnack/pg-sql-variants https://thelyfsoshort.io/variant-types-in-postgresql-c63725f... https://www.parsonsmatt.org/2019/03/19/sum_types_in_sql.html https://typeable.io/blog/2019-11-21-sql-sum-types.html Right now I think the ideal is a jsonb column (with a field t…

    Comment linking /blog/2019-11-21-sql-sum-types.html

    on “Type Constraints in 65 lines of SQL”
  6. Submitted Do You Know Where Haskell Is Used? as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  7. Submitted Do You Know Where Lisp Is Used Nowadays? as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  8. Submitted How Does Functional Programming Contribute to Modern Languages? as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  9. Submitted Advantages of Functional Programming as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  10. Submitted Why Do We Need Transpilation into JavaScript? as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  11. Submitted We Choose Programming Languages at Typeable as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  12. Submitted Assumptions You Probably Have About Strings as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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