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taylor.fausak.me
Personal blog · taylor.fausak.me · on HN as taylorfausakprogramming
taylor.fausak.me is a personal blog at taylor.fausak.me about programming. Since 2011, 19 different Hacker News readers have linked it 60 times, most often “2018 state of Haskell survey results”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-03-25, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (5) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog for its Haskell community data: the State of Haskell survey results and a Haskell job market analysis. Comments cite these posts as sources without judging them.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 5 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Howdy! My name is Taylor. I am a software developer. I live in Texas. Want to know more? Read my about page. Want to be notified about updates? Subscribe to the Atom feed. March 2026 Haskell Weekly...
Most-linked posts?
- 2018 state of Haskell survey results3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2018-11-19
- State of Haskell Survey Results (2017)3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2017-11-15
- IOS Web App Icons & Startup Images2 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2012-03-28
- Haskeleton: A Haskell Project Skeleton2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2014-05-21
- IOS 7 Web Apps2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2013-11-01
- Haskell's killer app is maintainability2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-02-08
- Dropdown Menu in Twitter Bootstrap's Collapsed Navbar2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2012-03-16
What Hacker News says?
> I really wish other languages communities do a similar survey, Python, PHP, Ruby, Java, Rust etc... It will be interesting to see the trend and big picture. 2018 state of Haskell survey results: https://taylor.fausak.me/2018/11/18/2018-state-of-haskell-su...
Comment linking /2018/11/18/2018-state-of-haskell-survey-results/
on “The State of JavaScript 2018”Submitted I Accidentally Deleted All Our Data as a story · 97 points
HN discussionLonger names can be seen as unnecessary and duplicating information. One has to balance between being verbose and laconic when it comes to naming in general, but judging by the lack of annotations in this case, not much care was put into it being easily readable. It may be useful to report it, once that's an issue: chances are it just seemed obvious to the author, as it also often happens to code in general, and acc…
Comment linking /2018/11/18/2018-state-of-haskell-survey-results/
on “A Dead-Simple Web Stack in Haskell”Submitted State of Haskell Survey Results (2017) as a story · 12 points
HN discussionThis is a great list! I have to nit pick the touch icon and splash screen sections, though. It's a lot more complicated than that. You need at least 8 <link> tags for touch icons and 7 for splash screens, just to support iOS <= 7. http://taylor.fausak.me/2013/11/01/ios-7-web-apps/
Comment linking /2013/11/01/ios-7-web-apps/
on “Mobile Web App Checklist”Submitted Haskell's killer app is maintainability as a story · 10 points
HN discussionOn the related Reddit thread [0] a commenter links to a very nice blog that evaluates Frege [1] in a very succinct way. To answer your question by quoting this blog post: "Wrapping mutable Java stuff in Frege means that everything will end up in an ST monad, which is almost always IO. That means that using Java’s HashSet will force anything that uses that to be in the IO monad itself. So there goes purity and refere…
Comment linking /2015/06/25/frege-a-jvm-haskell/
on “Frege: A Haskell-Like Language for the JVM”Submitted Be Productive: Use Screen as a story · 10 points
HN discussionThe section about iOS home screen icons has an error. Retina iPad icons are 144 pixels square, not 114. I wrote a blog post [1] that covers that. Also, I'd recommend using ConvertICO [2] instead of the X-Icon Editor. It generates much smaller files (4 kb vs. 32 kb). [1]: http://taylor.fausak.me/2012/03/27/ios-web-app-icons-and-sta... [2]: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4164119
Comment linking /2012/03/27/ios-web-app-icons-and-startup-images/
on “Favicons in the retina age”Submitted iOS 8 web apps as a story · 6 points
HN discussionI built a template for hi that sets up stylish-haskell, a test suite, an executable, and much more. Check it out: http://taylor.fausak.me/2014/03/04/haskeleton-a-haskell-proj...
Comment linking /2014/03/04/haskeleton-a-haskell-project-skeleton/
on “Haskell Packages for Development”Submitted Rebuilding Famigo with Twitter Bootstrap as a story · 6 points
HN discussionThanks for that. I ended up with a 4 Kb favicon that way, which is reasonable as far as I'm concerned. http://taylor.fausak.me/static/images/favicon.ico
Comment linking /static/images/favicon.ico
on “Flowchart: how to retinafy your website”Submitted Haskell’s killer app is maintainability as a story · 5 points
HN discussionThat's technically true, but they don't need to. You can use the same markup as the @1x splash screens and target retina devices with media queries. I wrote a blog post explaining exactly how to do it: http://taylor.fausak.me/2012/03/27/ios-web-app-icons-and-sta...
Comment linking /2012/03/27/ios-web-app-icons-and-startup-images/
on “What iOS 6 Mobile Safari Offers Front End Devs”Submitted 2019 State of Haskell Survey Results as a story · 5 points
HN discussionNeat! I also cloned 2048 in Haskell [1]. I don't know how many lines of code it is, but the core game logic is remarkably simple. [1]: http://taylor.fausak.me/2014/04/28/cloning-2048-in-haskell/
Comment linking /2014/04/28/cloning-2048-in-haskell/
on “Implementing 2048 in 90 lines of Haskell”Submitted 2022 State of Haskell Survey Results as a story · 4 points
HN discussionNot true. Who said they are commited to that? Elm doesn't even advertise itself as FP. In fact, the Elm style, although still FP, goes against a lot of FP ideals and canonical practices[1]. Instead, I think it would be more correct to say that Elm aims to be its own thing, totally independent from the Javascript and FP community, at the same time welcoming people from both (as it has been doing for quite a long time…
Comment linking /2015/04/09/write-more-understandable-haskell-with-flow/
on “Show HN: Tic Tac Toe Implemented in Elm”Submitted 2018 state of Haskell survey results as a story · 4 points
HN discussionAlso this: https://taylor.fausak.me/2022/11/18/haskell-survey-results/#...
Comment linking /2022/11/18/haskell-survey-results/
on “The Haskell job market has been growing steaily since 2008”Submitted 2017 state of Haskell survey results as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Making the Famigo Logo with CSS as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Default Exception Handler in Haskell as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Relate Intervals with Rampart as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Haskell Weekly in 2017 as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Haskeleton: A Haskell Project Skeleton as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Upgrade to a Multi-Screen Battlestation as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Encouraging Referrals with Free Apps as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Lazy Loading Social Widgets as a story · 2 points
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