Mostly longer articles that may eventually become something bigger covering my research, F#, history and philosophy and more. See the blog archive for a complete list. Choose Your Own Adventure Calculus Sunday, 2 February 2025 What can rout…
Architecture and urban planning have been a useful source of ideas for thinking about programming. I have written various blog posts and a paper Programming as Architecture, Design, and Urban Planning that argue why and explore some of thos…
I've been teaching F# for over seven years now, both in the public F# FastTrack course that we run at SkillsMatter in London and in various custom trainings for private companies. Every time I teach the F# FastTrack course, I modify the mat…
February 2025 (1), December 2023 (1), February 2023 (1), September 2022 (1), April 2022 (1), October 2021 (1), April 2021 (1), October 2020 (1), July 2020 (1), April 2020 (2), December 2019 (1), February 2019 (1), November 2018 (1), October…
February 2025 (1), December 2023 (1), February 2023 (1), September 2022 (1), April 2022 (1), October 2021 (1), April 2021 (1), October 2020 (1), July 2020 (1), April 2020 (2), December 2019 (1), February 2019 (1), November 2018 (1), October…
Illustration: Dancing House in Prague (Source: Wikipedia) Post-modern architects use architecture to make critical, ironic and revealing comments on architectural history, practice and its social context. Is it possible to embed similar cri…
In Proceedings of Onward! Essays 2021 Our thinking about software is shaped by basic assumptions and metaphors that we rarely question. Computer science has the term science in its very name; we think of programming languages as formal math…
Despite having the term science in its name, it is not always clear what kind of discipline computer science actually is. Research on programming is sometimes like science, sometimes like mathematics, sometimes like engineering, sometimes l…
Figure 1. The Timeless Way of Building - Christopher Alexander Many programmers know the name of the architect Christopher Alexander for his work on design patterns that has been adapted into the world of programming. A lot of people know o…
I started to learn how to program in high school at the end of the 1990s using a mix of BASIC, Turbo Pascal and HTML with JavaScript. The seed for this blog post comes from my experience with learning how to program in JavaScript, without h…
As someone who enjoys being at the intersection of the academic world and the world of industry, I'm very happy to see any attempts at bridging this harmful gap. For this reason, it is great to see that more people are interested in reading…
Unless you are a sci-fi author or some secret government agency, the question whether aliens would understand lambda calculus is probably not your main practical concern. However, the question is intriguing because it nicely vividly formula…