May 5 路 7 min read 路 The bug I kept designing around was not "wrong penalty amount." Wrong amounts are visible. A supplier sees a credit note for EUR 8400, checks the contract, and pushes back. The operator can investigate. The trail exists. The quieter failure is a pena...
Join discussionMar 27, 2025 路 5 min read 路 Introduction F# is an open-source, cross-platform programming language that seamlessly blends functional and general-purpose programming. Initially developed by Microsoft, it has gained popularity among developers for its simplicity, type safety, and...
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Jan 7, 2025 路 11 min read 路 From 2018 to 2023, I worked full-time with F#, contributing to companies with revenues up to $3 billion and working on critical codebases reaching 100k lines of code. Here鈥檚 my feedback on why I enjoy this language so much. Each F# code example is pa...
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Sep 17, 2024 路 11 min read 路 In the previous post we saw how zsh has a nice inbuilt function zsh_stats to get a summarized list of the most commonly used terminal commands. This got me wondering, can we replicate this result ourselves? 馃 Let鈥檚 find out. Language of Choice We wi...
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Aug 3, 2024 路 5 min read 路 .NET, the framework on which C# runs, supports multiple languages, one of which is F#, a functional programming language. We developed Sekiban, an event sourcing CQRS framework, using C#. I have been trying various things for a while, thinking that F...
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Jun 5, 2024 路 4 min read 路 As a CTO, choosing the right programming language for your business can significantly impact your bottom line. If you are looking into Microsoft stack, .NET comes as a way-to-go solution. And it is a no-brainer, it is a rich platform with batteries i...
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May 30, 2024 路 3 min read 路 Caching the results of asynchronous functions is a common task. Can we use memoize for it? Let's find out! Memoized Task Surprisingly, task works great with the basic memoize function from Tip #14. If we use a function that returns Task<_>, we get a ...
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May 16, 2024 路 3 min read 路 I recently encountered a bug that was caused by a special equality definition on a NaN value. NaN means not-a-number, and it's special floating-point number value, representing result of impossible operation. This issue shows how NaN can introduce ha...
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May 9, 2024 路 3 min read 路 Memoization of a recursive function can be often useful, but has some pitfalls compared to memoization of a simple function. Let's take a detailed look. Standard Memoization Let's use the classical example of computing the n-th item in the Fibonacci ...
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