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Ian Henry

Janet for Mortals

Janet for Mortals is the first book ever written about the Janet programming language.

Bauble

Bauble is a playground for making 3D art with lisp and math. More precisely, it’s a tool for composing signed distance functions and raymarching them in realtime.

Bauble supports rendering animations as well as images. Think of it like Shadertoy, but with a high-level expression language taking the place of GLSL. You can watch a video of me using an early version of Bauble here:

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How Jane Street Does Code Review

In 2017 I needed a haircut and gave a talk about Jane Street’s patch-based code review:

Full transcript here.

ocamlsyntax.com

A cheatsheet for uncommonly used bits of OCaml syntax. I made this for interns at Jane Street, but I refer to it myself all the time.

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zsh-autoquoter

Shell plugin that makes it easier to type English strings on the command line. Read more about it here.

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sd

A cozy nest for your scripts. Read more about it here and here.

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Basilica

Threaded forum written with a Haskell server and ClojureScript client. In continuous operation since 2014. Used by exactly two people.

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Hexagain

Unfinished website about the boardgame Hex. Client and server written in OCaml.

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