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Functional[Justin]
Personal blog · justinhj.github.ioprogrammingdataai
Functional[Justin] is a personal blog at justinhj.github.io about programming, data and ai. Since 2017, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 8 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-04-06, and you can follow it by feed.
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Principal Software Engineer. Streaming data at scale. Generative AI. Functional Programming. Neovim. Emacs.
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This is a neat tutorial. I use github pages with their built in Jekyll stuff which I'm semi happy with but I found Jekyll a big learning curve compared to Blogger which I was using before. Curious why people want to serve static sites to users over https though. http://justinhj.github.io
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on “Building a fast, secured and free static site in less than three hours”Submitted Visualizing K-Way Merge: An Interactive Guide to Database Sorting as a story · 1 points
HN discussionI have been blogging since before it was called that. I wrote a post about using the A* algorithm for path finding in games. The included code was used by quite a few game companies, some of whom I ended up working for. Recently I expanded the blog to include video which has been a learning experience for me. Mostly I do this stuff for my own entertainment but it has had a pronounced effect on my career. People don’…
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on “Ask HN: Is having a personal blog/brand worth it for you?”Submitted The Magic of Lazy Lists as a story · 1 points
HN discussionI did a couple of blog posts about UDash recently, one of which was to view this very site using functional programming library Fetch (similar to Facebook's HAXL) http://justinhj.github.io/2017/10/11/hacker-news-api-3.html The other was a simple roman numeral converter http://justinhj.github.io/2017/08/27/roman-numeral-tool-with... For me the advantage of UDash is for people that want a type safe Scala "all the way…
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on “Udash – Scala and Scala.js Reactive Web Framework”I love writing blog posts with org mode. I wrote a blog post about blog posting in org mode. https://justinhj.github.io/2020/03/09/how-to-blog-with-org-m... I wrote some code that exports html to a Jekyll static site, but really it works with anything that expects html.
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on “Org Mode Syntax Is One of the Most Reasonable Markup Languages to Use for Text”http://justinhj.github.io/ mostly scala and functional programming
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