Dear Scala afficionados,

Can we get some thumbs up on this?

github.com/FortAwesome/Fo…

New project idea: chatOps4s.

I'm thinking about simplifying getting info into and out of Slack (and possibly others, MS teams, discord, whatever).

I need to figure out if 1) there is a big enough problem space, 2) there is a big enough solution space, 3) solution brings…

What's your preferred platform for open communities?

Batched Books Reviews: #2024.3
It’s been a month and a half since my last batch. I have to admit, I’ve read much less in that time and couldn’t find time to write the reviews either. But I finally managed to write something, enjoy.
medium.com/vp-of-books/ba…

Non-fiction
- Botanical…

I'm going to write postgres runtime for workflows4s not because I need it but because I only recently heard about advisory locks and I want to play with them. Bite me!

Continuous presence of common cold among humanity can only be explained as a conspiracy of big pharma and tissue manufacturers.

It's a long article and I haven't read in full but it seems to confirm my long standing take: rust is low level language and its adoption is driven by hype.

It doesn't mean it's a bad language but people don't realize everything has a cost. Low level access to memory, low mem…

I hope people who participated in the lynch know better now. The damage cannot be undone, but I hope there will be more consideration and restrain the next time.

Personally, I'm very very happy that it ended this way. I hope we will see Jon in the community again.

A Statement
I am a Scala developer and speaker who was cancelled three years ago. Yesterday I attended the High Court in London to hear an apology from several prominent members of the Scala community for making untrue claims about me on 27 April 2021. I sued them for libel, and…

I'm wondering what costs humanity more statistically.

1. Let’s put this 5-min task in jira and prioritise as per usual process.
2. Let's do this 5-min task ad-hoc between current priorities

Both slow things down. 1) makes 5-min task a 5-hour task (in terms of human-time spent…

Is there any _semantic_ aspect to direct-style? Based on all the info I've seen so far, it's all _syntactic_.

We keep all the abstractions we have, we can build some new ones, and the only thing that changes is how we write code using those abstractions. Correct?

I'm this close to having working pekko runtime for workflows4s. This means it will be time for early feedback sessions soon!

If you work(ed) with long-running stateful processes in Scala and want to talk with me for ~30minutes about it, please DM!

JDG should be deplatformed not because of his free-speech tendencies but because his takes are worst kind of toxic shit. I kind of feel sorry for the Rust and TS communities that have to deal with him right now.

WTF slack? Why would you change my default theme to dark? Do I look like a pervert to you?

I think it's time to learn Akka Persistence. Believe it or not but I managed to use it almost daily for the last few years without ever opening the docs. I even managed to convince some people I know the thing. 🤷

For some reason Prague is cheaper than Poland, at least for some things. I would have never bought a big coffee + donut for <4€ on the Polish airport.

If a problem can't be solved in a simple way, it might not be worth solving.