James Cuénod 🇿🇦
James Cuénod 🇿🇦
@jcuenod.bsky.social
Biblical Researcher // Software Engineer. PhD Old Testament. Senior AI Translation Technologist @ Seed Company.
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November 6, 2025 at 2:26 AM
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November 4, 2025 at 8:34 PM
Congrats Matt!
October 18, 2025 at 7:03 PM
Change your language setting from Amharic back to English
September 19, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Shepherd is such a beast! When I was doing ApF stuff for Parabible, I literally just kicked the can down the road on it...
April 28, 2025 at 12:24 AM
Congrats, glad to hear it :)
April 25, 2025 at 3:41 PM
I saw you're also presenting at a Chicago meetup! Wish I could join, hope it's a good time :)
April 1, 2025 at 12:22 AM
Really enjoyed reading this. Love most of the work you guys are doing! Keep it up :)
March 29, 2025 at 12:01 AM
When I first read "no side-effects", my brain immediately said "he's using pure functions?" But I'm also glad to hear there were no side-effects of the lower dose...
March 4, 2025 at 2:24 AM
The one (successful) example the Dems have of responding in defiance was the government shutdown (2018-2019) when Trump refused to sign the appropriations bill, and Pelosi said "fine, here's your shutdown".
March 3, 2025 at 4:22 AM
Thanks! I now recall seeing that this was possible...
February 22, 2025 at 8:36 PM
Could you point me to an example/docs?
February 21, 2025 at 11:22 PM
I'm hoping that it's possible to rip the right stuff out of JS/TS and make minor additions, so that you could easily mistake Chicory for JS. But suddenly you get a ton of guarantees. Admittedly, that may be a pipe dream...
February 21, 2025 at 6:24 PM
Ja, I've used Rescript for a couple of projects (I actually asked Kris to do this episode), and I agree, the objectives are very similar. The big thing for me is that Rescript is still quite a different language. All of `module`, `@react.component` and `let make = ()` are new.
February 21, 2025 at 6:22 PM
I'm curious, in what ways is it not a "perfect" fit?

One of the things I realized in this episode is that a language I'm just starting out designing (chicory-lang.github.io) has nigh identical goals, but is launching from the TS side rather than the OCaml side. So I'm interested in any pain points.
February 21, 2025 at 3:29 AM
Thanks so much! I love that this worked out :)
February 21, 2025 at 3:24 AM
I really have no business doing any kind of language design. So this is really a PoC of a Poc, set expectations accordingly :)
February 17, 2025 at 10:03 PM