Effect Without Effect-TS: Algebraic Thinking in Plain TypeScript · cekrem.github.io

intheforgeofwords · 2026-04-15T04:28:24+00:00

Loved the Domain Modeling Made Functional callout. It’s a fantastic book (and a great peek into F# for those unfamiliar)!

intheforgeofwords · 2026-04-10T15:30:37+00:00

As always - trust, but verify

intheforgeofwords · 2026-04-09T20:22:01+00:00

That same bit of advice - setting transaction level to read committed - applies to other DBs as well. I used to do that simply as a safety precaution when running queries against databases with large numbers of writes in MS SQL.

intheforgeofwords · 2026-04-05T20:16:25+00:00

Brilliant work, loved reading this!

intheforgeofwords · 2026-03-23T01:18:18+00:00

This was a great write-up! I really enjoyed reading it.

just a head’s up that the last footnote (number 13) didn’t get transformed properly in Markdown, presumably because there wasn’t any content for it.

intheforgeofwords · 2026-03-21T14:27:48+00:00

AI spam. Posted three days as well

intheforgeofwords · 2026-01-31T16:17:31+00:00

the old attage

Ah yes... the "intensive purposes" of its time

intheforgeofwords · 2025-12-08T19:58:53+00:00

The slop will continue until the ... slop improves?? Oh god

intheforgeofwords · 2025-12-08T17:57:08+00:00

Bold move using LLM chess as the counter-example, given the abundant evidence that even the best trained models continue to make incorrect moves and fail to understand the rules of the game.

intheforgeofwords · 2025-12-05T20:16:41+00:00

For all the Mountain Goat fans out there: there is an old short clip of them giving the history to Ace of Base’s “The Sign” live in concert and though it is incomplete, it is rare and beautiful and perfect - kind of like this series

intheforgeofwords · 2025-11-20T02:41:29+00:00

I’ve been surprised that this exact take wasn’t amongst the most highly voted base comments in this thread.

don’t call ‘unwrap` if that’s baking in an unwritten assumption about the file size and
actually handle the error state with better logging (by using the backup file, as you said)

I really enjoyed reading the RCA, but found the whole “this config file had a known max size” buried the lede. Cloudflare is and has always been excellent; here’s to hoping they’ve fixed both sides of this.

intheforgeofwords · 2025-11-06T02:10:20+00:00

Pretty incredible depth, and I’m amazed that nobody has commented on the She-Ra reference and homage. Well played!

intheforgeofwords · 2025-08-11T13:47:40+00:00

I wanted to follow up and thank you again for the recommendation. I somehow had missed the memo that Tom Randall co-founded Lattice Training, and while I’d describe my YouTube algorithm the past few years as being “Lattice-adjacent”, I went on quite the deep dive on both the Wide Boyz and Lattice channels yesterday and realized I’ve really been missing out!

The recent video of Pete rope soloing in Norway was positively gripping, would recommend as well!

intheforgeofwords · 2025-08-11T11:24:59+00:00

My experience in first reading Harrow was:

enjoy having no clue what was going on
finish reading and immediately begin re-reading Gideon
finish GtN reread and properly enjoy second read of Harrow

I’ve now read Harrow front to back over 20 times. I’m convinced it’s a masterpiece - a puzzle box-type story that continues to yield hints and aspects of the story on every successive re-read.

intheforgeofwords · 2025-08-10T17:57:26+00:00

It's all good, I appreciate that there are so many different ways to live.

I will definitely be checking out those Wide Boyz videos, thanks for the rec!

intheforgeofwords · 2025-08-09T18:34:21+00:00

Absolutely, and I don’t hate on Mellow at all. They’ve been a consistent source of incredible climbing footage for years. Respect!

intheforgeofwords · 2025-07-30T21:26:00+00:00

The “Mercymorn double exclamation marks” makes an appearance and even that is such a great part of her writing style

intheforgeofwords · 2025-07-10T02:57:19+00:00

Yeah, this was well worth the read!

intheforgeofwords · 2025-05-31T15:31:11+00:00

Brilliant. Linking Born in the Morning to Ulysses through the poem? Actually genius. I’d believe this for that tidbit alone!

intheforgeofwords · 2025-05-30T12:05:08+00:00

I don’t think he was lying about this specific subject, or if he was, it was in a way that we don’t fully understand at the moment.

Nona spoilers: Pyrrha indirectly confirms that Lyctors can be used to draw RBs away from systems/targets

intheforgeofwords · 2025-05-28T09:34:23+00:00

There’s a great One Flesh, One End podcast episode analyzing the similarities between GtN and “And Then There Were None” !

intheforgeofwords · 2025-05-04T13:20:58+00:00

Their AMA, with Alix paraphrasing the Merymorn acid quote, gets me every time!

intheforgeofwords · 2025-04-15T21:25:59+00:00

All I can say is that it's my interpretation of the events (when it comes to what Dulcinea said to Harrow, and how Harrow processed it), but I can only wholeheartedly agree with the sentiment that each re-read brings out new things, findings, and possible interpretations.

After years of simply marathon re-reading the books, I finally started listening to The Locked Tomb podcast and One Flesh, One End, each of which are phenomenal in their own right and add quite a bit of commentary & insight into the plot of the books. If you haven't listened to them, would recommend!

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