Plurrrr

Hurl is a command line tool that runs HTTP requests defined in a simple plain text format.

It can perform requests, capture values and evaluate queries on headers and body response. Hurl is very versatile: it can be used for both fetching data and testing HTTP sessions.

In this post, I want to share a small little pattern that I’ve found to have a surprisingly high quality-of-life improvement, and I call it the list of monoids pattern.

The idea is that whenever we have a monoidal value - a type that is an instance of the Monoid type class - we can sometimes produce a more ergonomic API if we change our functions to instead to a list of these monoidal values.

This book is for anyone who is interested in computing, and wants to learn more about the exciting, but sometimes daunting world of The Shell. The shell is simple interface for working with computers and programs and learning some of its features can enormously increase your productivity as any computer user - whether a home user or hobbyist, programmer, data scientist, writer, administrator or other professional.