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A blog of personal and technical writing.
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https://jasdev.me/notes/why-optics
Why optics? · Distillations
Dec 15, 2019 - The better part of my weekend was spent reading Chris Penner’s incredibly well-written Optics by Example and attempting the exercises with BowOptics.
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About · Distillations
A blog of personal and technical writing.
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Emotional ranges: a way to think about empathy · Distillations
Nov 13, 2017 - Let’s break down empathy. At its core, it’s the ability to truly place yourself in someone else’s shoes. Not just imagining what it would be like. But actually...
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https://jasdev.me/film/44
44 · Distillations
Feb 3, 2024 - Shannon post-photo walk editing. Wind Vintage’s hidden collection in Williamsburg. Yours truly (from afar).
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https://jasdev.me/notes/little-self-big-self
little self, Big Self · Distillations
Jan 18, 2021 - Yesterday I learned — let’s pretend “YIL” is a thing — Swift’s postfix self (i.e. .self) can be used after any expression (not just types). It’s a lesser-known...
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https://jasdev.me/notes/natural-transformations
What makes natural transformations, natural? · Distillations
Oct 19, 2019 - Learning category theory often involves patiently sitting with a concept until it—eventually—clicks and then considering it as a building block for the next1....
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https://jasdev.me/notes/morphisms
“Oh, the morphisms you’ll see!” · Distillations
Oct 17, 2019 - There are many prefixes placed in front of the word “morphism”—here’s a glossary of the ones I’ve seen so far:
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Writing a Combine operator: variadic zipping · Distillations
Mar 24, 2020 - (Assumed audience: folks familiar with Combine’s syntax. Prior knowledge of zipping isn’t necessary, since I’ll build intuition and link to resources—but, if...
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https://jasdev.me/notes/profuctors-generalize-relations
Profunctors generalize relations · Distillations
Apr 25, 2020 - An aside before the note, Day One reminded me that I started studying category theory, in earnest, almost a year ago today.
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https://jasdev.me/film/243-244
243–244 · Distillations
Feb 15, 2026 - Saturday macro practice.
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https://jasdev.me/film/5
5 · Distillations
Jan 5, 2023 - Good ol’ Misty (in New Hartford). Checkin’ out Only NY’s NYC collection. My go-to back when I worked at Peloton.
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