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In a perfect world, everything would be purely functional and nothing would hurt. We don't live in that world.

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• What you should know about MySQL's LAST_INSERT_ID() - January 17, 2022
  Why it's useful, but more importantly how to avoid it.
• Unfancy Haskell pt 3: Brainfuck.JumpMap - December 15, 2017
  Building a flow-control map from a parsed Brainfuck program.
• Unfancy Haskell pt 2: Brainfuck.Parse - December 8, 2017
  Implementing a minimal Brainfuck parser.
• Unfancy Haskell pt 1: Brainfuck.Types - December 1, 2017
  Introduction to the series, which shows a complete and functional Brainfuck interpreter in idiomatic Haskell--without the use of super fancy types or techniques.
• What even are GADTs? - November 26, 2017
  A quick, beginner-level overview of what Haskell's Generalized Algebraic Data Types are good for.