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Jigar Gosar in The Functional Programmer

Aug 23, 2017

Elm: Decode fields that might be absent in JSON

How to Decode JSON in Elm Part 2

Part1

Imports

import Json.Decode as D exposing (Decoder)
import Json.Decode.Pipeline as D
import Json.Encode as E exposing (Value)

Jigar Gosar in The Functional Programmer

Jul 22, 2016

Why Functional Programming?

Let’s skip on what and focus on why Functional Programming

WHY FP?

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Jigar Gosar in The Functional Programmer

Jan 8, 2017

How to Decode JSON in Elm Part 1

Easily decode any JSON to Elm type alias, union type, singleton type constructors. And any nested combination of these.

In Elm, JSON encoding and decoding is quite easy as opposed to what people think. The main problem is lack of good examples. I…

Jigar Gosar in The Functional Programmer

Jul 27, 2016

Can you spot the duplication?

Nano FP Tutorial 01

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Jigar Gosar in The Functional Programmer

Oct 24, 2016

#Experiment 3: Can I solve FizzBuzz using ONLY JS functions, and ABSOLUTELY nothing else

Yup! you heard it right. No variables, operators, numbers, booleans, objects, control structures. Absolutely nothing but but plain old javascript functions.

Jigar Gosar in The Functional Programmer

Oct 24, 2016

#Experiment Day 2: Javascript To Haskell

Migrate yesterday's Timer Chrome Extension from javascript to Haskell

Scroll for “EOD update”

But

It is already 3pm, and I don’t want to set up myself for failure. So, let’s…

Jigar Gosar in The Functional Programmer

Jul 30, 2016

Cloning Medium: “Open Source” & “Functional”

What do you think? How ambitious is this project?

Of course I am not talking about cloning the user base, which is where 99% of the value lies.

Jigar Gosar in The Functional Programmer

Oct 24, 2016

Define, Ship and Blog Daily

An experiment to deal with the subconscious burden of procrastinating work on procrastinating commitments across various projects.

The Concern

I have been working on multiple projects since last few weeks. Daily making…

Jigar Gosar in The Functional Programmer

Dec 4, 2016

Programming Languages are Half-Part Religion

A way of thinking. A way of life…

A list of Do’s and Dont’s.
With judgements on what’s Right and Wrong.
Filled with Zelots and Moderates alike.

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