Plurrrr

My first commit to my dotfiles repository was ten years ago. Here are a few things I’ve learned about maintaining a system configuration in that time.

(This will mostly be for macOS and Linux. I don’t have experience configuring Windows or FreeBSD machines, for example.)

Many new Haskellers make it through initial material (everything up to and including the Monad typeclass, let’s say), write a couple of “Hello, world!”-tier projects that use the IO type, but struggle to make the jump to industrial libraries and/or find projects that excite them. I think text-mode games can grow very smoothly alongside a programmer learning a new language, so here’s some thoughts on how to get started, how you might extend a game, and some advice for Haskell specifically.

I recently wanted to prepare a Jupyter notebook with some example code and ran into an interesting problem: trying to display a Matplotlib chart made the IPython kernel crash.