Blog Articles
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Block comments on the web
Comments on the web can be toxic, and a waste of time. Here’s how to block them…
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When My World Vanishes
It’s me, facing a hard to solve problem. It’s a difficult one, and I’m having problems focusing. I make some coffee, I move to another room, and I’m already thinking of running to some coffee shop, forgetting that we’re still in a pandemic.
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Privilege
Today it’s my 38ᵗʰ birthday. I was born into privilege. Other people aren’t as lucky.
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Retry Failing Tasks with Cats and Scala
Retry actions ending in failure via simple functions and Typelevel Cats type-classes.
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Fatal Warnings and Linting in Scala
Strengthen your code via
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Parallelizing Work via a JavaScript Semaphore
Simple and very effective implementation of a Semaphore, used for easily parallelizing work in JavaScript/TypeScript.
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Blog Updates
Dusted off my website, with big plans ahead.
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Regexp Replacement via Function in Java/Scala
Replace in strings via regexp, with the replacement being calculated via a function.
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Scala's isInstanceOf is an Anti-Pattern
Scala has a much better way of discriminating between types. Scala has implicit parameters, with which you can describe type classes.
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On Bifunctor IO and Java's Checked Exceptions
Bifunctor IO is a hot topic in the Scala community. Herein I’m expressing my dislike for it, as it shares the problems of Java’s Checked Exceptions.
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In Defense of OOFP
OOP versus Type Classes, exemplified and in defense of the Scala collections redesign.
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Minitest: Zero Crap Scala Testing Library
Minitest is my minimal testing library that I’ve been using for developing Monix.
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What is Functional Programming?
FP is programming with (mathematical) functions, there’s no room for interpretation.
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Scala Days 2017 — Monix Task
My presentation from Scala Days 2017, Chicago (April) and Copenhagen (June), on the design of Monix’s Task.
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JavaScript's Promise Leaks Memory
JavaScript’s Promise leaks memory in recursive loops and what you can do about it.
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Automatic Releases to Maven Central with Travis and SBT
Enabling automatic releases for your open source Scala project with Travis and SBT.
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Functional Programming Inception (Presentation)
My presentation from the Bucharest FP meetup.
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Asynchronous Programming and Scala
Asynchrony is everywhere and it subsumes concurrency. This article explains what asynchronous processing is and its challenges.
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Fixing scala.collection.Iterator
The venerable Iterator interface we all love and hate could use some improvements. This is a follow-up to my previous article, in which I talked about getting rid of Traversable because the Iterable and Iterator duo is enough for Scala’s standard library.
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Why Scala's Traversable Is Bad Design
Traversable was a design mistake, is redundant and we should remove it.
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