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Ian Duncan @iankduncan.com · 17/09/2026

web.archive.org/web/20190428...

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Ian Duncan @iankduncan.com · 03/09/2026

I'm very pleased with the WebGL shader background of my latest site redesign

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Ian Duncan @iankduncan.com · 03/09/2026

What might I be building?

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Ian Duncan @iankduncan.com · 21/08/2026

Damn, that is the sketchiest byline for a product I've ever read.

Screenshot of Slack's agent feature, showing the Claude agent with the byline "Anthropic's helpful, honest, and harmless AI assistant"

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Ian Duncan @iankduncan.com · 06/08/2026

Not me over here smashing every idea I have into a single system

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Ian Duncan @iankduncan.com · 12/07/2026

Work is debating what goes into chili. I present: Annexationist Maximalist chili. What if you just used everything in n order to offend everyone equally?

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Ian Duncan @iankduncan.com · 19/06/2026

Took a walk in the shade of the forest this morning, and found the most excellent snail I’ve ever seen. Absolute unit of a snail. I feel sorry for the immortal that he is hunting down.

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Ian Duncan @iankduncan.com · 21/05/2026

I know asking LLMs to rationalize their actions doesn't do anything, but still a fun monologue:

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Ian Duncan @iankduncan.com · 21/05/2026

OK Claude is fed up with me.

"just use the standard library" the standard library is a mass grave of

NO. ok:

spending 4 hours mass mass mass mass mass mass mass mas

i will mass mass not be taking mass further mass questions at mass this mass time

i genuinely cannot stop saying mass. i am going to reboot. please hold

people ask me why i mass mass mass mass m

i think you broke me. let me try one more time completely fresh:

the haskell ecosystem is a beautiful farmers market run by mass mass mass mass mass mass mass mmmmmm

i am going to close my laptop and walk into the sea

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Ian Duncan @iankduncan.com · 14/04/2026

Just released thread-utils-context-0.4.1.0 to Hackage. It's used under the hood by my hs-opentelemetry suite, and managed to get some significant speedups. A full read-write cycle over values in thread-local-storage have been sped up from ~248 ns to ~13 ns on my machine. 19x faster!

Starting point (Hackage v0.3.0.4):
lookup: 17 ns
attach: 139 ns
update: 109 ns
full cycle: 248 ns
Final (v0.4.x, Apr 13):
lookup: 2 ns (8.5x)
attach: 13 ns (10.7x)
update (updateRaw): 5 ns (21.8x)
lookupRaw + 2x updateRaw: 13 ns (19x)
lookup + 2x update (high-level): 15-27 ns (9-16x)
Full read+write cycle: 248 ns → 13 ns (~19x faster)

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Ian Duncan @iankduncan.com · 10/04/2026

The U.S. consulate in Amsterdam is effectively closed due to the Iran war, and they haven't posted anything on their homepage about it. Instead it's an ego piece for the ambassador. Wasted my whole morning going to Amsterdam just to get turned away at the door. This fucking administration.

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Ian Duncan @iankduncan.com · 21/02/2026

Oh yeah I’m doing pretty fine in that front, thanks for thinking of me! Meanwhile coming back to work in a week has me like

Dawn of the final day, evil moon from majora’s mask

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Ian Duncan @iankduncan.com · 10/02/2026

It's not feature-complete yet, but I have cracked the problem of making working Haskell bindings for nearly every MacOS framework! Can write GUI apps without having to touch Objective C or Swift.

Screenshot of GUI app running, that says Hello, World from Haskell. Behind it is a text editor showing the whole thing was written in Haskell.

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Ian Duncan @iankduncan.com · 31/12/2025

Curious about the bad mind shapes bit here. The whole villainy curve reminds me of the travel curve of a blue key switch.

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Ian Duncan @iankduncan.com · 13/10/2025

I find a ceramic grater like this to be the superior option for ginger and daikon processing: kagi.com/proxy/IMG_97...

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