Mike Sperber

@dErG_r_a_f_St_G Es ist interessant, dass immer die Leute nach harten Maßnahmen rufen, die am lautesten über "Faschismus" gejammert haben, als sie eine Maske aufsetzen sollten.

If the answers are in the back of the book I can wait, but what a drag. Better to struggle on knowing that failure is final.

In the new Interlude, we focus on teaching. To help us, we are joined by Jamie Willis who is a Teaching Fellow at Imperial College London. The episode explores the benefits of live coding, and why Haskell is the best language for teaching programming. haskell.foundation/podcast/78/

The ordinary-sized stuff which is our lives, the things people write poetry about – clouds, daffodils, waterfalls – and what happens in a cup of coffee when the cream goes in – these things are full of mystery, as mysterious to us as the heavens were to the Greeks.

Einstein - relativity and sex. Chippendale - sex and furniture. Galileo - 'Did the earth move?'

Er hat sich nicht durch Boris Palmer trauen lassen.

When you stir your rice pudding, Septimus, the spoonful of jam spreads itself round making red trails, like the picture of a meteor in my astronomical atlas. But if you stir backward, the jam will not come together again.

THOMASINA: Tell me more about sexual congress. SEPTIMUS: There is nothing more to be said about sexual congress. THOMASINA: Is it the same as love? SEPTIMUS: Oh no, it is much nicer than that.

This cracked me up but also makes me feel extra old.

Ursprünglich als Timer entwickelt, hat sich der legendäre 555-IC als weit vielseitiger erwiesen, als seine Entwickler je beabsichtigten, und tauchte im Laufe der Jahrzehnte in einer erstaunlichen Vielzahl von Schaltungen auf.

New Haskell Interlude! Franz Thoma is Principal Consultant at TNG Technology Consulting, and an organizer of MuniHac. Franz sees functional programming and Haskell as a tool for thinking about software, even if the project is not written in Haskell. haskell.foundation/podcast/77/

Comparing what we're looking for misses the point. It's wanting to know that makes us matter. Otherwise we're going out the way we came in. That's why you can't believe in the afterlife, Valentine. Believe in the after, by all means, but not the life.

The ordinary-sized stuff which is our lives, the things people write poetry about - clouds - daffodils -waterfalls - what happens in a cup of coffee when the cream goes in - these things are full of mystery, as mysterious to us as the heavens were to the Greeks.

Der Software Architecture Summit im März 2026 fokussiert Modellierung, Modernisierung & bessere Entscheidungen für Architekt:innen. Plus 2 Bootcamps zu KI-Architektur & Betrieb. Frühbucher endet 22.1.2026. software-architecture-summit.de/muenchen/

ROSENCRANTZ: We'll be free. GUILDENSTERN: I don't know. It's the same sky. ROSENCRANTZ: We've come this far… And besides, anything could happen yet.

The new episode of the Haskell Interlude with Lennart Augustsson was done at @ZuriHac jointly with @ttforall. It is a deep dive into the evolution of Haskell and functional programming with one of its pioneers. haskell.foundation/podcast/74/

Heat goes to cold. It's a one-way street. Your tea will end up at room temperature. What's happening to your tea is happening to everything everywhere. The sun and the stars. It'll take a while but we're all going to end up at room temperature.

Septimus: When we have found all the mysteries and lost all the meaning, we will be all alone, on an empty shore. Thomasina: Then we will dance.

oh for heaven's sake, for crying out loud long before your birth I enjoyed 150 baud little bit stormy today, it's the era of cloud cloudflare outage wasn't caused by unwrap, don't listen to the crowd

In this episode, we talk to Manuel Chakravarty. He'll tell us of his work on the ghc backend such as data-parallel Haskell and the FFI, and how that segued into type systems. We also discussed hiss perspective on Haskell from the language design of Swift. haskell.foundation/podcast/72/