Sai Divvela
@sdivvela.bsky.social
Undergraduate at UMD, interested in PL, systems, and security and all things in their intersection :) also avid manga reader, cat lover, and occasional gamer
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My experience at AmeriHac
This past weekend, I participated in the inagural North American Haskell Hackathon - AmeriHac! It was so much fun, despite not even knowing a single bit of Haskell going into it. I wanna write up a bi...
thedeveloper101.github.io
I was at AmeriHac this past weekend! Decided to write up a blogpost about it :D I did my best to capture the experience. Please let me know if there are any errors or if you have any comments, suggestions or questions
thedeveloper101.github.io/posts/2026/0...
thedeveloper101.github.io/posts/2026/0...
I was at AmeriHac this past weekend! Decided to write up a blogpost about it :D I did my best to capture the experience. Please let me know if there are any errors or if you have any comments, suggestions or questions
thedeveloper101.github.io/posts/2026/0...
thedeveloper101.github.io/posts/2026/0...
My experience at AmeriHac
This past weekend, I participated in the inagural North American Haskell Hackathon - AmeriHac! It was so much fun, despite not even knowing a single bit of Haskell going into it. I wanna write up a bi...
thedeveloper101.github.io
February 9, 2026 at 6:49 PM
I was at AmeriHac this past weekend! Decided to write up a blogpost about it :D I did my best to capture the experience. Please let me know if there are any errors or if you have any comments, suggestions or questions
thedeveloper101.github.io/posts/2026/0...
thedeveloper101.github.io/posts/2026/0...
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The cat has once again deployed a devastating DDoS attack against my "lap" microservice, causing me to miss work,
November 20, 2025 at 11:36 AM
The cat has once again deployed a devastating DDoS attack against my "lap" microservice, causing me to miss work,
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me: ugh god you know how you make plans for friday night but then friday night gets there and you don't want to do it and it feels sooooooo good to cancel?
my liege lord Daimyō Nobunaga (unsheathing katana): even a dog understands loyalty. She whose word is not bond does not deserve to live
my liege lord Daimyō Nobunaga (unsheathing katana): even a dog understands loyalty. She whose word is not bond does not deserve to live
October 19, 2025 at 7:02 PM
me: ugh god you know how you make plans for friday night but then friday night gets there and you don't want to do it and it feels sooooooo good to cancel?
my liege lord Daimyō Nobunaga (unsheathing katana): even a dog understands loyalty. She whose word is not bond does not deserve to live
my liege lord Daimyō Nobunaga (unsheathing katana): even a dog understands loyalty. She whose word is not bond does not deserve to live
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part of my resentment towards LLMs is to do with them crowding out anything else we could be talking about. there are so many things I could be reading to get better at my craft but I'm presented with "you should actually get worse at it on purpose because nothing matters any more"
August 8, 2025 at 7:27 PM
part of my resentment towards LLMs is to do with them crowding out anything else we could be talking about. there are so many things I could be reading to get better at my craft but I'm presented with "you should actually get worse at it on purpose because nothing matters any more"
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Didn’t want to believe this was true. It’s true.
August 7, 2025 at 9:13 PM
Didn’t want to believe this was true. It’s true.
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A guide to programming paradigms:
Imperative: functions can have side effects
Functional: functions must be pure
Reversible: functions must be pure and bijective
Analytic: functions must be pure, bijective and infinitely differentiable
Agile: functions must take part in daily standups
Imperative: functions can have side effects
Functional: functions must be pure
Reversible: functions must be pure and bijective
Analytic: functions must be pure, bijective and infinitely differentiable
Agile: functions must take part in daily standups
April 22, 2025 at 6:34 PM
A guide to programming paradigms:
Imperative: functions can have side effects
Functional: functions must be pure
Reversible: functions must be pure and bijective
Analytic: functions must be pure, bijective and infinitely differentiable
Agile: functions must take part in daily standups
Imperative: functions can have side effects
Functional: functions must be pure
Reversible: functions must be pure and bijective
Analytic: functions must be pure, bijective and infinitely differentiable
Agile: functions must take part in daily standups