Discoveries in 2015

"So Jove, the Olympian Lord of Thunder, hied him to the bed in which he always slept; and when he had got on to it he went to sleep, with Juno of the golden throne by his side."
-- The Iliad, Homer
Book 1

My discoveries in 2015 of things that I've enjoyed (idea from Michael Fogus' Best Things and Stuff of 2015).   Order is just ordered of discovery.

Programming Languages

• Idris

Non-Fiction Books

• Zhuangzi: The Essential Writings by Zhuangzi
• Mastering Clojure Macros: Write Cleaner, Faster, Smarter Code by Colin Jones
• Against Method by Paul Feyerabend
• Type Theory and Formal Proof: An Introduction by Rob Nederpelt and Herman Geuvers

Fiction Books

• The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle
• David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
• Dracula by Bram Stoker
• La Cousine Bette by Honoré de Balzac
• La Chartreuse de Parme by Stendhal

White Papers

• "A tutorial on the universality and expressiveness of fold" by Graham Hutton
• "Functional Programming with Bananas, Lenses, Envelopes and Barbed Wire" by Erik Meijer, Maarten Fokkinga, Ross Paterson

Music

• Balzac
• Dave Hause
• Masked Intruder
• The Menzingers
• GOD Is an Astronaut
• maybeshewill

My Top 5 Most Popular Blog Posts of 2015

• Intro to Higher Order Functions
• Think About Length OR How Fold Can Do Everything, Even Count
• Always Bet on Math
• Bro, Do You Even FizzBuzz?!?
• One Data Structure to Rule Them All

Most Enjoyable Conferences

Presented at: Midwest.io

Attended: Strange Loop

Location (Portland): Clojure/West