Now

What I am up to right now (updated weekly; last update: 15 September 2025). Inspired by Derek Sivers.

I live in Conway, Arkansas with my wife and three children (ages 14, 8, and 4), where I am an associate professor of computer science at Hendrix College.

Teaching

This semester, I am teaching:

Classes are off to a good start.

Projects

In the fall of 2021 I started developing a game called Swarm and built a small open-source community around its development. So far we have made a few official alpha releases, and development continues to hum along. Currently, I’m working hard on adding an import feature to the language.

Another research project I have been working on recently is making formal an intuitive sense I have that the types of DSLs involving an applicative functor can be fully inferred from programs that just use regular applicative notation, whereas for monads this is ambiguous.

I’ve finally finished recreating my academic blog with Hakyll and have begun again writing some posts about competitive programming in Haskell. I’m in the very early stages of turning the material into a book.

Reading/Playing

Things I’m reading or playing right now:

Music

Pieces I’m learning/practicing right now: