A Haskell program that uses the Conduit library to retrieve and store image files with Network.HTTP.Conduit, which are accessible via an URL with a date in it. The images are stored in an images subdirectory with the date in the filename. The program skips URLs that do not return a HTTP status code of 200 (e.g. …
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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).
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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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A Haskell program to convert the Paperspan HTML export format to an Instapaper CSV import format with automatic –configuration file driven– designation to folders. The HXT library is used to parse the Paperspan HTML file and the CSV result is written to standard output.
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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.
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Because I have been wanting to use org-mode instead of Markdown for this site, I started using the Hakyll static site generator and converted all my content to org-mode. The Thomas Read's blog (that I used as a template) even has MathJax support implemented. Support for LaTeX is also possible with Hakyll, I read …
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Because I have been wanting to start using tiling window managers and want to learn some Haskell.
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Because I have been wanting to start using plain text accounting I needed a conversion from KMyMoney software to HLedger.
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