Galaxy brain

Eric Torreborre

Eric Torreborre

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I am a software engineer. Put me at the center of a Venn diagram with functional programming, product development, and open-source

What is so unique about Unison?

May 4, 202414 min read

I have recently started exploring the Unison programming language. Some programming languages are good because they improve the current state of...

What is so unique about Unison?

We have no free will, and this is not a big deal

Jan 1, 202416 min read

On the contrary! · I was introduced to the wonderful neuroscientist and primatologist, Robert Sapolsky, more than 10 years ago, via a colleague. He told...

We have no free will, and this is not a big deal

Typed Tagless Final, for real!

Dec 27, 202310 min read

Every so often, a software technique takes the center stage of attention and becomes the source of countless articles, tutorials, and conference...

Typed Tagless Final, for real!

The application toolbox

Nov 6, 202313 min read

What are the elements that make a huge difference in your productivity when you are developing an application? Are there features that you lament not...

The application toolbox

Why we need techno-realism

Oct 24, 202311 min read

Marc Andreessen recently wrote a "Techno-optimist manifesto". I promptly reacted that I was a techno-pessimist, that I was not believing in technology...

Why we need techno-realism

Turning actors inside-out

Oct 8, 202317 min read

Or... do we really need actor systems? · The actor model, and its concrete incarnation in platforms like Erlang/OTP or Akka, has been presented as a...

Turning actors inside-out