Archive - Eric Normand's Newsletter

Denotational vs operational

It's time to retire the imperative vs declarative dichotomy

Dec 16, 2025 • Eric Normand

What are formal systems?

A programmer-y exploration of their weird and cool nature

Dec 9, 2025 • Eric Normand

November 2025

Post-Conj update

It's all about the community

Nov 22, 2025 • Eric Normand

October 2025

A functional programming course in 6 books

My recommendations for a robust foundation in the paradigm

Oct 29, 2025 • Eric Normand

August 2025

My biggest fear with AI

Stagnation, not replacement

Aug 5, 2025 • Eric Normand

July 2025

LLMs' surprise teaches us about ourselves

How does a language model know, understand, and become expert?

Jul 9, 2025 • Eric Normand

The economic inevitability of AI

Renting shovels during the AI goldrush

Jul 1, 2025 • Eric Normand

June 2025

AI, Lisp, and Programming

Intertwined since the beginning

Jun 24, 2025 • Eric Normand

Work and meta-work

At what point does meta-work become work?

Jun 17, 2025 • Eric Normand

Too many degrees of freedom

Error throwing and catching is ironically full of errors

Jun 3, 2025 • Eric Normand

May 2025

REPL-Driven Development and Learning Velocity

The last Lisp advantage

May 13, 2025 • Eric Normand

Crafting your environment

Managing the real bottleneck of your programming productivity

May 7, 2025 • Eric Normand

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