AshleyYakeley / AshleyYakeley

Hi, I'm Ashley, a software developer living in Seattle.

I want to improve the way people think, through software and mathematics, and especially the programming language concept of type. Pinafore is my main effort in this area.

Interests

• Information representation and user interface, with an eye towards composability
• Programming languages: Haskell, functional programming, type systems, Algebraic Subtyping, declarative languages, theorem-proving languages
• Decentralization and permissionlessness: identity, interaction, transaction

Projects

• Pinafore, a language for structuring and storing information, and creating GTK user interfaces for it. It's currently the most sophisticated implementation of the type system Algebraic Subtyping.

  • Sixteen Unusual Things About Pinafore
  • pinafore.info
  • Discord channel

• NixVirt, a Nix flake that lets you declare virtual machines and associated objects via libvirt.

Haskell libraries

• time, the core Haskell library for dates and times.

• monadology, a collection of the best ideas in monad-related types and classes. (overview)

• witness, support for a wide variety of types of values that witness constraints on type variables.

• open-witness, witnesses that can be declared statically or generated dynamically.

• countable, classes for Countable, Searchable, Finite, Empty types.

• type-rig, classes for the rig (sums and products) of types.

• primitive-serial, serialisation of primitive types.

• diagrams-gi-cairo, a port of diagrams-cairo to haskell-gi.