Archive of stories published by Renaissance Learning R&D

Dueling Rhetoric of Clojure and Haskell

by @eborden on November 01, 2017

Recently Lispcast wrote a post interpreting Rich Hickey’s controversial statements on static types. This post had some very interesting perspectives and some unfortunate misinformation. Within the post…


Evaluating RIO

by @pbrisbin on April 16, 2019

The rio library is a package by Michael Snoyman aimed at providing a “standard library” for Haskell.

RIO attempts to provide:

  • A safer Prelude (e.g. no head)

AWS SSO Credentials

by @pbrisbin on September 16, 2022

At Freckle, we use AWS SSO to manage our operators’ CLI access. The process typically goes like this:

  1. You call aws sso login and go through a browser authentication

Engineering Excellence (part 2)

by @eborden on October 03, 2022

In the previous post we discussed measures of excellence that have wider adoption in industry. They are accepted, have benchmark values, and frequently speak to delivery/user-value. These metrics keep us honest about…

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