Lore

• Mail: Linus Torvalds announces Linux
• Mail: Linus Torvalds open-sources Linux
• Mail: Ian Murdock announces Debian
• Mail: Marc Andreessen proposes the <img> html tag
• Mail: Satoshi Nakamoto presents Bitcoin
• Background: How We Got the Generics We Have (Or, how I learned to stop worrying and love erasure)
• Why do we call it "boilerplate code?"
• Vint Cerf on the origin of RFCs
• The seven programming ur-languages

Functional Programming

• What’s So Great About Functional Programming Anyway?
• What Color is Your Function? (not strictly about FP, but you could consider it so, given promises are monads)
• Category: The Essence of Composition
• Functors, Applicatives, And Monads In Pictures
• Partial application is dependency injection
• The Grand Unified Theory of Software Architecture
• Expressions vs. statements
• Algebraic Effects for the Rest of Us
• MONAD TRANSFORMERS 101
• So You Want to be a Functional Programmer (Part 1)

Et Cetera

• Parse, don’t validate
• Effective ML Revisited — I think this is the source of the phrase "Make illegal states unrepresentable"
• Designing with types: Making illegal states unrepresentable
• The Typestate Pattern in Rust
• Using a Framework will harm the maintenance of your software
• Composition Root by Mark Seemann
• -2000 Lines Of Code
• Should class be considered harmful in JavaScript?
• Goodbye, Object Oriented Programming
• Status as a Service
• How Shazam Works