As part of the small minority of devs at my company who primarily run Windows, I’m accustomed to working around occasional Unix-specific behaviors in our build and deployment systems. Cygwin makes most stuff just work, I can fix simple incompatibilities myself, and as a last resort I can always boot into OSX for a while if needed. One oddity that took me quite some time to diagnose, though, was Git’s strange behavior when dealing with files in our repo whose names contained a colon. What happens when [...]

I was asked to give a presentation at work about Akka.Net. Even though my audience is 100% C# loving, I will give a demonstration with F# code. I was already working on a project to rewrite “Three is a Crowd” to the Actor model in F#, and this presentation was a driver to finish this project. Let’s share my experiences with Akka.Net here.Choices and MotivationThere were two goals of rewriting the game to Akka.Net. First of all, I wanted to try out a few design patterns. Secondly, if you ru [...]

It was one of those wow-moments when I learned that Fsharp is suitable for making a DSL, that actually appears readable. It looks better than one of those fluent interfaces with method chaining. I was really interested in making a DSL, just as a learning exercise, and perhaps to contribute a dime to the Fsharp community. I stayed close to home, I already was in a System Integration project for my paid job, where we used Apache Camel. I was quite content with its elegance and simplicity.Howe [...]

This blog started on wordpress.com back in February of 2012, then in November 2013 I moved it to a hosted WordPress.org site here at latkin.org. WordPress is quite nice, but it seemed like it was a bit heavyweight given my very basic needs. I’ve wanted to slim down the site and get more hands-on for a while, now. Over the past few weeks, I’ve been migrating the entire blog to the Hugo static site generator. I’m pleased to announce that the migration is complete! Why Hugo? No particular reason. I happe[...]

Implementing radix sort with Alea.CUDA using the Unbound module.