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Thomas Honeyman
Personal blog · thomashoneyman.com/articlesprogramming
Thomas Honeyman's personal blog at thomashoneyman.com covers programming. Since 2019, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 7 times, most often “Practical Profunctor Lenses and Optics in PureScript”. The last post was in 2020, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog for its guide to optics in PureScript, which one commenter presents as a more accessible introduction to lenses than the usual material.
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.
I'm a software engineer, writer, and entrepreneur based in Los Angeles, CA. I write about PureScript, Haskell, Nix, and functional programming.
Most-linked posts?
- Practical Profunctor Lenses and Optics in PureScript4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2019-08-09
- How to write PureScript react components to replace JavaScript2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2019-06-27
What Hacker News says?
If you are looking for a more accessible introduction to lenses, this guide to optics in PureScript is great (and PureScript is basically Haskell). https://thomashoneyman.com/articles/practical-profunctor-len...
Comment linking /articles/practical-profunctor-lenses-optics/
on “Lens: Lenses, Folds and Traversals”Submitted How to write PureScript react components to replace JavaScript as a story · 99 points
HN discussionSubmitted Practical Profunctor Lenses and Optics in PureScript as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Practical Profunctor Lenses and Optics in PureScript as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Practical Profunctor Optics in PureScript as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Practical Profunctor Lenses and Optics in PureScript as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to Replace React Components with PureScript's React Libraries as a story · 1 points
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