Elben Shira

Blog Projects

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Software engineer interested in programming languages, distributed systems and machine learning.

Go to Projects to see my programming projects like Neblen (typed Lisp programming language), SAT (boolean satisfiability solver library) and more.

Essays and Stories

• How to Travel Without a Camera
  August 1, 2018
• How to Travel Well
  July 10, 2018
• Kilimanjaro
  October 4, 2014

  My experience on summit night. January 2012.

Recommended Blog Posts

• Art and Philosophy in Programming

  August 13, 2016
• The End of Dynamic Languages

  November 22, 2015
• The Universal Data Structure

  June 26, 2015
• Understanding Transducers

  September 15, 2014
• Why UT Austin is second-rate at producing startup founders

  December 22, 2010

Blog

• A Programming Language for the Laboratory

  March 30, 2019
• The Simplicity of Haskell

  January 11, 2019
• Change is Inevitable: Designing Software in a Chaotic World

  July 24, 2018
• SemVer is Meaningless

  January 23, 2018
• Art and Philosophy in Programming

  August 13, 2016
• Smarter Help: Our Programming Tools

  May 31, 2016
• The End of Dynamic Languages

  November 22, 2015
• The Universal Data Structure

  June 26, 2015
• The Best Introduction to Haskell

  January 9, 2015
• Planjure: A* and Dijkstra’s in Om

  October 25, 2014
• The Trifecta of ClojureScript, Om and core.async

  October 20, 2014
• Understanding Transducers

  September 15, 2014
• Using core.async for Producer-Consumer Workflows

  August 31, 2014
• UTF-8 for JRuby and MySQL

  July 22, 2014
• Git for Humans: Patching Your Commits

  November 21, 2011
• Why UT Austin is second-rate at producing startup founders

  December 22, 2010
• Singleton Pattern in Python

  April 16, 2010
• Behind Python's unittest.main()

  January 30, 2010