By neildaemond, an 'any-stack' hacking grasshopper.
Taking notes while tinkering with:

I had an html table of categorized items, and I wanted to give each category it’s own Color automatically. So I thought I’d hash the category ID String into an HTML Hexidecimal Color. A search will find this stack overflow post, but I was using elm and thought it would be a fun task to translate this function into a funcitonal style. Here’s how that went:

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