My name is Irfan Ali. Welcome to my website.

I'm mainly interested in programming, economics, typography, and a little bit of math. I currently work as a Haskell consultant. I plan to occasionally post expository articles and insights here.

Projects

• Myna: monospace typeface designed for symbol-rich programming
• Pilaf: micro-library to emulate structural pattern-matching in JavaScript

Blog

• Poor Man's Time Machine: Lazy Evaluation in JavaScript and Haskell
• No Let, No Rec, No Problem: A Gentle Introduction to the Y and Z Combinators

Colophon

I've tried to keep the design simple and minimal.

On the backend, website is hosted using Express.js running behind an Nginx (without any other dependencies).

On the front-end, I've used only the following dependencies:

• Highlight.js (for highlighting code snippets)
• Reveal.js (for displaying slides)
• MathJax (for displaying mathematical equations)

I use the fonts Inter for text and Myna for code.