The Webgear realworld Haskell example (server) and the Real World Halogen Purescript example (client) combined into Conduit (gothinkster/realworld) — what's described as "The mother of all demo apps" (fullstack Medium.com clone) Introduction At the server Haskell is used (i.e. Webgear) and at the client PureScript …

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Some quick 'off-label' experimentation with WebGear (a high-performance framework to build composable, type-safe HTTP APIs. It is designed to make common API development tasks easy. It is also easily extensible to add components needed by your project. – haskell-webgear/webgear). Also see earlier Webgear post. …

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WebGear is a high-performance framework to build composable, type-safe HTTP APIs. It is designed to make common API development tasks easy. It is also easily extensible to add components needed by your project. – haskell-webgear/webgear (by Raghu Kaippully). Introduction From the Webgear documentation: "Webgear is a …

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A generator that updates cert_fingerprint lines in .offlineimaprc configuration file. OfflineIMAP is a GPLv2 software to dispose your mailbox(es) as a local Maildir(s), which can be used with notmuch to retrieve mail from (several) IMAP servers and read and search through it. The configuration contains cert_fingerprint …

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Install a full Haskell development environment (including hpack and cabal) on your Android phone. The command prompt runs via Termux and its PRoot (i.e. proot-distro). F-Droid Install F-Droid from f-droid.org (follow instructions). Termux + PRoot First install the Termux package via F-Droid and then follow the PRoot …

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In the past I have used the xmonad tiling window manager but eventually returned to KDE, because I had some problems with truncated text in terminal windows, needed to be able to run a complicated GUI that was not very suited for a tiling window manager and I thought there was not that much difference in performance. …

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Create a Docker image with Debian Linux in which you can install and use Haskell tooling via ghcup and that uses your computer's native GUI. This can be useful because using ghcup under NixOS is a bit of a nuisance. On the Docker host computer, if you run the container manually, do not forget to use xhost to allow …

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Create an Interactive Brokers' Trader Workstation platform Docker image that uses your computer's native GUI. This can be useful when your operating system is not supported by Trader Workstation or no recent version is available. The docker image is based on alekna/docker-ib-tws Docker image (by Laurynas Alekna), but …

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A nix-shell can be used to quickly set up ad-hoc development environments with all required dependencies in place. SDL2 program To compile an SDL2 program –for this example Tsoding's sowon is used– put the following in a shell.nix file: 1with import <nixpkgs> {}; 2 3let 4 stdenv8 = overrideCC stdenv gcc8; 5in 6 …

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The Purely Functional Linux Distribution – NixOS (by Dolstra, Eelco). NixOS is a Linux distribution with a unique approach to package and configuration management. Built on top of the Nix package manager, it is completely declarative, makes upgrading systems reliable, and has many other advantages. The configuration is …

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