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Solomon's Blog
Personal blog · blog.cofree.coffee · on HN as solomonbprogramming
Solomon's Blog is a personal blog at blog.cofree.coffee about programming. Since 2020, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 18 times, most often “A Brief Intro to Monad Transformers”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-07-20, and you can follow it by feed.
blog.cofree.coffee
Most-linked posts?
- A Brief Intro to Monad Transformers2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-08-06
- How to Design a Chat Bot2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-02-14
- Free Monads Yield Extensible Effects2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-08-17
What Hacker News says?
This work predates agents as we know them now and was intended for building chat bots (as in irc chat bots) but when auto-gpt I realized I could formalize it super nicely with this library: https://blog.cofree.coffee/2025-03-05-chat-bots-revisited/ I did some light integration experiments with the OpenAI API but I never got around to building a full agent. Alas..
Comment linking /2025-03-05-chat-bots-revisited/
on “You should write an agent”Submitted A Brief Intro to Monad Transformers as a story · 3 points
HN discussionhttps://blog.cofree.coffee/ My intention was to do a lot of garden related content but it ended up being all functional programming.
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on “Ask HN: Share your personal site”Submitted Cellular Automata with Comonads, Representable Functors, and Dependent Types as a story · 3 points
HN discussionI'm having trouble reading zig code, so I'm not sure how much overlap there is but I have done some work with mealy and moore encoded as co-algebras in haskell: https://blog.cofree.coffee/2025-03-05-chat-bots-revisited/ https://github.com/cofree-coffee/cofree-bot Also using the lens library to encode moore machines as polynomial functors: https://blog.cofree.coffee/2024-07-02-lensy-moore/
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on “Polystate: Composable Finite State Machines”Submitted Chat Bots Revisited as a story · 2 points
HN discussionhttps://blog.cofree.coffee
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on “Ask HN: Could you share your personal website here?”Submitted Free Monads Yield Extensible Effects as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Type Safe Servant Auth Roles as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Lensy Moore as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Free Monads Yield Extensible Effects as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to Design a Chat Bot as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to Design a Chat Bot as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Alex and Happy MVP as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Dont Worry Be Happy as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted That One Cool Reader Trick as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted A Brief Intro to Monad Transformers as a story · 1 points
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