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match feels better than if until PowerShell

tl;dr match in F# is usually case -> value. In PowerShell it is often case -> effect. That is why plain if / elseif / else or switch often reads better in PowerShell than trying to force a fake match style. In F# matc...

Some neat fsx F#

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My company had a hackathon focused on data scraping/processing. Each team had to scrape 3 endpoints. I came up with something similar to this: open System open System.Net.Http open System.Text let c = new HttpClient()...

Json

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json

Should I use System.Text. (STJ) or Newtonsoft. (previously .NET)? use STJ, Newtonsoft is no longer enhanced with new features. The author works for Microsoft now on some non-json stuff. JamesNK reddit comment Terms ma...

<3 regex

<3 regex https://regex101.com/r/RdCR7j/1 - set the global flag (g) to get all matches https://www.debuggex.com/ - havent't played with this a lot but I might give it a try, looks like a decent learning tool regex - us...

Exercises in bash/shell/scripting

Being fluent in shell/scripting allows you to improve your work by 20%. It doesn't take you to another level. You don't suddenly poses the knowledge to implement flawless distributed transactions but some things get d...

F# async - be mindful of what you put in async {}

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1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15open System let r = Random() let m () = let random_num = r.Next() async { printfn "%i" random_num } m () |> Async.RunSynchronously // prints a random number m () |> Async.RunSynchron...