Mastodawn

Yours Truly Jun 18, 2023

Extra fun fact for comment reading friends: This post is the origin of the meme "Monads are just monoids in the category of endofunctors. What's the problem?" Source

A monad is just a monoid in the category of endofunctors, what's the problem?

Who first said the following? A monad is just a monoid in the category of endofunctors, what's the problem? And on a less important note, is this true and if so could you give an explanation (

Stack Overflow

Yours Truly Jun 18, 2023

A Brief, Incomplete, and Mostly Wrong History of Programming Languages

https://dataterm.digital/post/48576

A Brief, Incomplete, and Mostly Wrong History of Programming Languages - DATATERM

An absolute classic. One of my favourite parts: >1987 - Larry Wall falls asleep and hits Larry Wall’s forehead on the keyboard. Upon waking Larry Wall decides that the string of characters on Larry Wall’s monitor isn’t random but an example program in a programming language that God wants His prophet, Larry Wall, to design. Perl is born.

Yours Truly Jun 16, 2023

Image Stacks and iPhone Racks - Building an Internet Scale Meme Search Engine

https://dataterm.digital/post/26359

Image Stacks and iPhone Racks - Building an Internet Scale Meme Search Engine - DATATERM

Yours Truly Jun 12, 2023

The Architecture of Nginx

https://dataterm.digital/post/2402

The Architecture of Nginx - DATATERM

An insightful article about the internals of nginx, and how it works.