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Stories by romes

Launching My Side Project as a Solo Dev: The Walkthrough (alt-romes.github.io)
HN 72 pts 9 comments by romes Feb 1, 2026 thread
The Monad Called Free (2014) (blog.sigfpe.com)
HN 66 pts 43 comments by romes Feb 2, 2026 Programming Languages / CS Theory thread
Implementing Unsure Calculator in 100 lines of Haskell (alt-romes.github.io)
L 55 pts 10 comments by romes Apr 24, 2025 haskellmath Programming Languages / CS TheoryScience / Math / Physics thread
Delimited Continuations vs. Lwt for Threads (mirageos.org)
HN 48 pts 3 comments by romes Feb 2, 2026 thread
Lazy Linearity for a Core Functional Language (alt-romes.github.io)
L 47 pts 3 comments by romes Nov 27, 2025 compilersplt Systems / Low-Level / OSProgramming Languages / CS Theory thread
Car Physics for Games (asawicki.info)
L 39 pts 2 comments by romes May 25, 2025 games Science / Math / PhysicsGaming / Retro Computing thread
Pandoc for the people: Convert documents without leaving the browser (pandoc.org)
HN 36 pts 3 comments by romes Feb 6, 2026 Web Development thread
The Haskell Debugger for GHC 9.14 (discourse.haskell.org)
L 29 pts 2 comments by romes Jan 7, 2026 debugginghaskellrelease Programming (General)Programming Languages / CS Theory thread
Reference Counting with Linear Types (discourse.haskell.org)
L 29 pts 0 comments by romes May 12, 2024 haskellplt Programming Languages / CS Theory thread
You Can't Build Interactive Web Apps Except as Single Page Applications... And Other Myths (htmx.org)
L 27 pts 13 comments by romes Nov 15, 2024 web Web Development thread
Planning Weekly Workouts in 100 lines of Haskell (alt-romes.github.io)
L 27 pts 12 comments by romes Aug 14, 2024 haskell Programming Languages / CS Theory thread
Little Sound Dj (littlesounddj.com)
L 26 pts 8 comments by romes Jan 20, 2026 gamesretrocomputing Gaming / Retro Computing thread
Don't "optimize" conditional moves in shaders with mix()+step() (iquilezles.org)
L 26 pts 5 comments by romes Feb 9, 2025 games Gaming / Retro Computing thread
Learning Low-Level Computing and C++ by Making a Game Boy Emulator (byteofmelon.com)
HN 20 pts 3 comments by romes Feb 4, 2026 Systems / Low-Level / OSGaming / Retro Computing thread
Creating a macOS app with Haskell and Swift (alt-romes.github.io)
L 17 pts 1 comments by romes Nov 23, 2023 compilershaskellmacswift Systems / Low-Level / OSProgramming Languages / CS TheoryApple / macOS / iOS thread
Hello all! I’d like to share one of my recent successful endeavours into creating native applications with Haskell. I’ve started researching interoperability (with batteries) between Haskell and Swift, to be able to leverage Apple’s SwiftUI library for designing native applications with Cupertino-a...
Computed Properties for Haskell Records (alt-romes.github.io)
L 14 pts 2 comments by romes Nov 30, 2023 haskellswift Programming Languages / CS TheoryApple / macOS / iOS thread
The new Haskell Debugger for GHC 9.14 (discourse.haskell.org)
HN 13 pts 0 comments by romes Jan 10, 2026 Programming (General)Programming Languages / CS Theory thread
Calling Haskell from Swift (alt-romes.github.io)
L 11 pts 0 comments by romes Apr 2, 2024 haskellswift Programming Languages / CS TheoryApple / macOS / iOS thread
Benchmarking Haskell dataframes against Python dataframes (mchav.github.io)
HN 10 pts 0 comments by romes Jul 18, 2025 Programming Languages / CS Theory thread
Haskell's killer app is maintainability (taylor.fausak.me)
HN 10 pts 0 comments by romes May 8, 2025 Programming Languages / CS Theory thread
Automatically Packaging a Haskell Library as a Swift Binary XCFramework (alt-romes.github.io)
L 9 pts 0 comments by romes Jul 7, 2025 haskellmacswift Programming (General)Programming Languages / CS TheoryApple / macOS / iOSCulture / Philosophy / History / Reading thread
Higher-Order Typed Functional Choreographic Programming (people.mpi-sws.org)
L 9 pts 1 comments by romes Aug 27, 2023 distributedpdfplt Programming (General)Programming Languages / CS TheoryData / Databases / Infrastructure thread
Simon Peyton Jones on fearless refactoring over the long term in Haskell (discourse.haskell.org)
HN 9 pts 1 comments by romes May 8, 2025 Programming (General)Programming Languages / CS Theory thread
Implementing Unsure Calculator in 100 lines of Haskell (alt-romes.github.io)
HN 8 pts 0 comments by romes Apr 24, 2025 Programming Languages / CS Theory thread
Benchmarking Haskell dataframes against Python dataframes (mchav.github.io)
L 7 pts 0 comments by romes Jul 18, 2025 haskellperformancepython Programming (General)Programming Languages / CS TheoryData / Databases / Infrastructure thread
Is POPL Mathematics or Science? (cs.princeton.edu)
L 7 pts 0 comments by romes Sep 9, 2023 pdfplt Programming Languages / CS TheoryScience / Math / Physics thread
I turned my Anki side project into $15K raised on Kickstarter (alt-romes.github.io)
HN 7 pts 7 comments by romes Feb 5, 2026 thread
Functors to Monads: A Story of Shapes (blog.jle.im)
L 6 pts 0 comments by romes Nov 7, 2024 haskellplt Programming Languages / CS Theory thread
Kanjideck: The full walkthrough from zero to launch (alt-romes.github.io)
HN 6 pts 0 comments by romes Feb 1, 2026 thread
Car Physics for Games (asawicki.info)
HN 6 pts 0 comments by romes May 25, 2025 Science / Math / Physics thread