The other day I was trying to think how I could group together discriminated union values in a way to let me later determine if values were mutually-exclusive. For a simple discriminated union, I came up with a pretty simple solution: store a Map<SomeUnion, SomeUnion list>. Each key in …

I recently bought a Yubikey 4 with the intent of playing around with it, setting up SSH to let me use it for authentication, and maybe even using it to sign some things in git. I forgot the part where that meant using gpg again...

Thus begins today's story...

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Functions in .NET and F# in particular have some oddities that I've run into and can be a bit annoying at times. At least partially for my own benefit, I'm documenting my finds here while I remember them.

So in F#, if you want to define a function that adds …

This morning I convered an enumeration from some VB code into a union in F#. This enum had been created so that I could create a generic "tab" view and view-model in WPF, and could easily tell each instance what tab it was to be. Unfortunately, I began receiving an …

Working on a project, I found myself wanting to match different discriminated union cases with text for output. Normally I write this out as a discriminated union with a separate function that uses pattern matches to determine which value to return, but I'd really like to attach the text directly …

In certain projects, it may be deemed appropriate to utilize both F# and WPF. Visual Studio has a large number of issues that make this difficult, not the least of which is that it simply doesn't support creating a WPF project with F# out-of-the-box. What follows is a guide based …

If you're trying to use git's rebase command on your repo's first commit, you may not feel there are many options. What I found you could do is to create an empty commit in a new blank branch, and then rebase everything else off of that commit, essentially creating a …