I’ve been away from Colorado for a year now, but this photo always reminds the aerospace engineer in me of a hopeful future, where traveling to and from the Moon is an everyday occurrence. :)

I reduced the price of my Kindle books to $2.99 for the 2024 holidays: Learn Functional Programming The Fast Way: amzn.to/40c4c29 Learn Scala 3 The Fast Way: amzn.to/3L4YwR4

In addition to making these Kindle books just $2.99, we’ve also given away over 3,000 #Scala and #FunctionalProgramming books this year. The “giveaway” part is thanks to ziverge and zio. Thanks to Ziverge sponsoring my videos, I was able to make these free for all. 🥳

A great thing about Zen is that if you put in the work, you can know what Li Bo knew, some 1,300 years ago.

My algorithmic feed has become a toxic cesspool of lies & hate speech, and I won’t support that, so I’m also out of here. For everyone that has interacted here, thank you! 🙏 If you’re interested, you can find me at these places: kbhr.co/other Namaste & Peace Out, Al

My free Scala and Functional Programming video courses are now complete!🥳 We have 8 courses, with 266 videos, and since August, 2024, we have over 1,450 course registrations. Many thanks to ziverge, John A De Goes , and Sandra Wolf 🐺 for making this all possible. 🙏 The

If you haven’t had a chance to look at Kyo yet, the first ~20 minutes of this video is a nice introduction. 👍👍 As just one example, you’ll learn what this syntax means: val s: String < IO = IO(readFile(filename)) There’s also a really nice map/flatMap surprise in there

I don’t watch many movies, but my nieces made me watch Bridesmaids, and that eventually led to seeing this favorite quote about finding meaning in work.

I slightly modified an example from the ZIO Streams website for my ZIO Streams course, and it ended up being one of the most fun and interesting examples I’ve ever worked with. Playing with the delay times and buffer sizes was a 😱🤯🤩 experience. Videos are here:

At a recent wedding I saw an older cousin for the first time in several decades, and he eventually told me that he got one of the first computer science degrees from Northwestern University in the 1970s. When I told him that I was mostly working with Scala, he said, “I hope you

A thing I love about ZIO HTTP is that a server-side application is just a map of (a) route patterns to (b) their handlers, where each entry is essentially just a function from a Request to a Response. #scala #functionalprogramming

We have now passed 1,600 course registrations! 🥳 #scala #functionalprogramming #free

Alaska was an amazing place to work, because during the summer you’re awake 20 hours a day, and during the winter it’s dark all the time, so you’re like, “I guess I’ll just stay in, make some coffee and fresh-baked cookies, and write a book.” :)

I just noticed that we’re now over 1,750 registrations, which is pretty cool.

A great thing about learning #Scala is that it has every feature you’d want in a programming language, and those features are generally implemented in a logical, consistent manner. So when you work in another language, it’s just a matter of translating that feature back to what

One Sunday many moons ago I was working at a client site and thought I was alone, and was playing a Led Zeppelin song ridiculously loud as I worked. Then a security guard came in and yelled that he could hear it all the way down the hallway, and I yelled back, “It’s great,

I just saw that we are now over 1,800 course registrations. #Scala and #FunctionalProgramming training, all 100% free.

Okay, I just wrapped up some small projects and I’m ready to go back to work full time! Anyone need some Scala or maybe some technical writing? (There’s a reason I didn’t go into sales or marketing. 😂)