i’m a software engineer based in seattle, passionate about static analysis, typography, fractals, arpeggios, and lens flares.

• Global State in Haskell with IORef: A naughty and previously-undocumented trick (2025-01-02)
• Reading git range-diff output: It's simpler than I thought! (2024-12-11)
• Bisecting GHC is easier than I thought: Practical lessons from building a compiler (2024-12-05)
• Announcing git-prole: Create multiple checkouts for one repository with Git worktrees (2024-10-22)
• Giving My Student Loan Servicer a $560 Interest-Free Loan: I finished paying off my student loans. They took another $560 anyways. (2024-08-20)
• Announcing ghciwatch 1.0: Load a GHCi session for a Haskell project and reload it when source files change (2024-07-15)
• Why Git's diff3 merge conflicts are confusing: The first section in a diff3 merge conflict is your branch in a merge, but their branch in a rebase (2024-03-28)
• Rust for Haskellers: A 5-minute intro to Rust for Haskellers who want to get stuff done (2023-07-07)
• No Good Soap Dish: The problems you want it to solve cannot be solved. (2022-09-20)
• So You Want to Ship a Command-Line Tool for macOS: It's one executable, how hard could it be? (2022-09-07)
• transgender surgery is way too hard to get: you do not need 14 pages of paperwork and dozens of documents to talk to me about a surgical procedure (2022-06-11)
• Git GUIs and why I don't like them: Here's why I don't like several Git GUIs (2022-05-05)
• installing nixos doesn't have to hurt: there's lots of low-hanging fruit to work on (2022-03-18)
• against discord channels: i just wanna talk to my friends, please don't make me click 300 little tabs to do it (2021-11-02)
• type-driven computing: towards a more cohesive computing experience (2021-02-01)
• Slack’s threads are terrible for accessibility: Slack’s threads might as well not exist (2020-10-23)
• rustconf: rustconf slides (2020-08-18)
• Open letter: Brandeis is failing its disabled students: The last time I met with you, I was told that “there’s not a brick that doesn’t move” when it comes to accessibility. Here are some bricks. Let’s get moving. (2020-02-07)
• Introduction to functional programming in Java (2020-01-10)
• who i am not: there are many rebecca turners. i am not these ones (2019-04-22)
• Unicode Resources: Links to everything from block charts and emoji proposals to string analysis and encoding guides (2018-04-06)
• ASCII table: Hex and binary, HTML and plain text, detailed and simple, folks we have all the ASCII charts you’ll ever need here at The Dazzling Rebecca’s ASCII Emporium (2018-04-04)
• i c the light: a distance-estimating ray marcher for rendering quaternion julia set fractals (2017-05-25)