Lessons from the writing of James Baldwin on hope and love. @JivaDeVoe on being happy, links to my writing on opening schools and parsing, a freaky online experience, smoking advice for new mothers, Maggie's link to Music of the 2010s, and parsing libraries from @johnsundell and Rob Phillips.

Now that I've seen an implementation of Parser Combinator as just being a variation of the State Monad, I don't know why I didn't see it sooner. I'm fighting the impulse to add a chapter to the FP book.

We make so many decisions in a day that aren't really very important. What about those really incredibly difficult ones that can come back to haunt us?

The CDC says you should send your kids back to school in the fall. I look at their discussion of the risks.