My favorite bit from any of Alexander Ioffe talks. If your programming talk doesn’t match this energy, I don’t want to hear it 😤

Code for the Scala macros course complete. 2600 LOC full of magic. ETA end of the month

First developer: "ZIO docs are bad." Second developer: "Have you read the Zionomicon?" First developer: "Who has time to read a 700 page book!!" 🤣

For Scala devs disappointed with o1’s knowledge of ZIO 2.x, it looks like Deepseek is much more up to date. Would highly recommend it for Scala dev assist

I achieved an interesting performance improvement today by changing an opaque type from Int to java.lang.Integer. It may look counter-intuitive, but these IDs were used mostly by Maps or Sets. Map#get and Set#contains cause boxing and extra allocations on every call.

If Scala has a million users, I’m one of them. If Scala has five users, I’m one of them. If Scala has one user, that one is me—probably stuck overthinking ZLayers. If Scala has no users, I finally gave up and switched to Rust.

Recruiter: “My client is a little concerned about your job history, you hop around a bit too often” *two months after getting a new job* Recruiter: “Hey, looked through your profile, looks like you’d be a good fit for this role”

Opeth fans sleep on Orchid; a massively underrated album. Standout tracks I suggest you revisit: The Apostle in Triumph, Twilight is my Robe

Diving in this week…

Absolutely nobody: Me: "∀ a, b ∈ G, a ⊕ b = b ⊕ a"

The discipline of the steel was required to change the silence of death to the eloquence of life

My first and last (😭) time going..!

Having a wonderful time at my first (and final 😢) LambdaConf 2025 ! So many great talks so far. I very much enjoyed John A De Goes’s talk on the future of ZIO schema, and I would suggest anyone interested in contributing to check out the repo: github.com/zio/zio-blocks

Had the pleasure of attending Alexander Ioffe's talk at LambdaConf 2025 and he absolutely blew my mind with ExoQuery! Coming from a Quill power user, I was really impressed by the breadth and depth of features. Definitely check it out if you are a #kotlin dev

Even better if the type signature doesn't lie to you. Would much rather see: def createFile(...): IO[IOException, Path]

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