A Haskell-to-WebAssembly compiler. Presumably faster and produces smaller bundles than GHCJS, but not yet as compatible.
A simple web frontend framework for Haskell that condenses all the principles shared by JavaScript frontend frameworks down to their common core and abstracts it out.
No global update functions, no digest cycles, no FRP.
Some takeaways:
- Metaanalyses are very cool.
- Putting too much emphasis on costly large-scale randomized controlled trials gives an advantage to new and expensive drugs over established out-of-patent drugs.
- Ivermectin should be approved both as a treatment and as a preventative for COVID-19 (but see post #1099).
Summary: America (or rather, the American left) dominates European politics, of which there is little nowadays. The West as a whole is highly homogeneous and the lack of diversity in opinion is hurting progress and making Western democracy itself vulnerable to attacks by authoritarianism.
He is not impressed by the German version.
A JDK downloader and updater.
With the growing number of JDK distributions this looks like a useful thing to have.
If you declare an automatic module name, then your library can be used on the module path without fear of it suddenly breaking when you start actively using the module system.
It’s virtually no work at all. Just do it.
An economics blog.
Apache Cassandra on Kubernetes.
A book on the Java module system.
A meticulously designed monospace bitmap font. Perfect for your text editor or IDE when you are on a low-resolution display.
An interview with David Shor, Barack Obama’s presidential campaign data scientist.
One point he makes: Democrats have tended to win elections when they have focused on issues rather than ideology in their messaging. Cases in point: Hillary Clinton’s defeat in 2016, Bernie Sanders’ strong showing in 2016 versus his weaker performance in 2020.