Parker's Posts
How I Leveled Up as an Engineer by Learning Infrastructure As Code
When I started my Software Engineering career after college, I was overwhelmed with trying to understand my team's cloud services and configurations. However, once I learned Terraform/Terragrunt, I unlocked a newfound ability to reason about cloud architecture and systems design.
Introducing hson, a JSON processing language
hson is a CLI that, when given JSON data and an hson script, processes the JSON data according to the script. I demonstrate the features of hson and illustrate how it was implemented using Haskell.
Pure Functional Programming in Context
What is pure functional programming, and how does it compare to the more mainstream imperative, object-oriented programming paradigm? I present a brief history of the problems FP aims to solve.
A Survey of Practical Haskell
Wondering why Haskell is so notable? I introduce the Haskell programming language and pure functional programming more broadly, providing many examples and avoiding as much jargon as possible.
Testing Parsers Thoroughly with Property-Based Testing
Property-based testing is effective at revealing unconsidered edge cases! I compare unit testing to property-based testing and discuss my experience implementing property-based testing for a parser.
A Practical Introduction to Parsing in Haskell
Understanding parsing in Haskell does not require monad expertise! I briefly demonstrate the use of parser combinators in hson and provide practical descriptions and analogies for the Parser monad.
Parsing Chained Expressions, Functionally
While immutability can help prevent bugs, it can also create challenges. Such challenges arise when parsing chained expressions from left-to-right, as those expressions must be nested in the parse tree from right-to-left.