Cats 2.0.0 is released. The major version is bumped mainly because we broke binary compatibility on cats-laws (together with alleycats and cats-testkit), but the core modules: cats-cores and cats-kernels remain binary compatible with Cats 1.x. Kudos to all contributors!

Greta Thunberg to world leaders at the U.N. climate summit: “You have stolen my dreams and my childhood with your empty words” mag.time.com/E82qg0J

Our 10th newsletter issue is out with lots of #engineering insights, updates and news. Featuring: Boris Litvinsky, Natan Silnitsky Martynas Bardauskas, Kent C. Dodds 🏹 and more! Subscribe here: wix.engineering/subscribe

Algimantas Krasauskas teaches some ZIO

Applying the KISS principle also implies doing "boring" stuff instead of blindly following the coolest trends of the moment. Do monoliths unless you don't need microservices for a good reason. Use synchronous code unless you don't need async or reactive for a good reason.

I wrote a blog post about a new optics encoding which enables custom error reporting in Dotty. I am super excited because it offers flawless type inference thanks to Scala unique features like variance and union types. fp-tower.github.io/2020-01-27-int… #scala #monocle #optics

Become a better communicator overnight: - Replace every “but” you can with an “and” - Never start a sentence with “no” or “disagree” - Only give feedback if there’s a chance it will be implemented - Tell people you will be late before you are late - Bias to overcommunicating

http4s-0.21.0 ✨FINAL✨ is here, with 51 contributors since the 0.20 series! Several people have been on the milestones and RCs, but today we're making this the maintenance branch, and recommend all users upgrade at their earliest convenience.

Sharing my short tutorial on Http4s and Tsec. Hope somebody will find it useful. medium.com/wix-engineerin…

The Idris2 repository has moved to the "idris-lang" organisation, and now lives at: github.com/idris-lang/Idr… This is now implemented in Idris 2 itself, and bootstrapped via Scheme. Thanks to everyone who's helped us get this far!

Made my day youtube.com/watch?v=4f6-MD…

#Scala.js 1.3.0 is out! With it comes one of the most awaited features for Scala.js: module splitting support! It also brings a number of new methods and classes in the JDK APIs. Read all about it at scala-js.org/news/2020/10/1…

If you're interested in using Kafka in your project and you love Scala, here I delve into using wix/greyhound to solve Cron using Kafka: medium.com/wix-engineerin…

Is it just me or asana.com is not working? asana? Getting `t.init is not a function` in the console, hope it helps. Using Google Chrome on a Mac and Chrome on an iPhone

I talked about The Deli

As Israel's Delta variant wave spreads beyond middle class towns with very high vaccine coverage, the protective effect of the vaccine becomes more obvious in the data. Graph via מואיז הקטן ®

.Alex Pinsky, Asaf Yonay, Ethan Pogrebizsky and Ittai Zeidman will discuss and go deeper into Platform Engineering! Today, 17:00 👇👇 x.com/i/spaces/1lPJq… #platformengineering