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I am a Faculty Lecturer in McGill University's School of Computer Science. My main academic interests are broadly in programming languages: functional and higher-order programming, compilers, virtual machines, and type theory.

• Implementing generators with continuation-passing style, streams, and defunctionalization
  April 2, 2023
• Loop once... (f)or else! (Or, Python pro-tip number 2)
  March 25, 2023
• Functional programmers hate this one trick
  February 12, 2023
• Refactoring Asynchronous Recursion with Continuation-Passing Style
  January 22, 2023
• Implementing environment-based evaluation of recursive functions in OCaml
  January 20, 2023
• SAT solving with higher-order continuations
  October 22, 2022
• It's my first time uwu
  August 12, 2021
• Await before returning!
  July 23, 2021
• A little extra safety with RankNTypes
  January 1, 2021
• Dynamic Programming in Haskell
  September 12, 2020
• Roll your own reminders with dunst
  May 22, 2020
• Programming in Lojban
  December 12, 2019
• Roll your own Ngrok with Nginx, Letsencrypt, and SSH reverse tunnelling
  January 29, 2019
• systemd-nspawn: disabling link-local addressing
  August 6, 2017
• Haskell and Pushbullet - a tale of SMS on the command line
  February 20, 2017
• Prakash puzzles: a hundred prisoners and a lightbulb
  February 10, 2017
• Decidable orderings in Idris
  November 11, 2016
• Token authentication with Servant
  June 18, 2016
• Redirecting file descriptors to more than one file in bash
  June 13, 2016
• Quick navigation with Neovim terminals
  May 2, 2016
• The case against Python
  April 19, 2016
• Python pro-tip number 1
  April 1, 2016
• Managing downloads from the command line
  March 17, 2016
• Gotos in Python
  March 6, 2016
• Windows debugging for fun and profit
  December 31, 2015
• Date night with OverloadedStrings
  December 23, 2015