This piece about keycap designs copycats is not bad. I appreciate that they interviewed a few of the prominent community designers. theverge.com/22905351/mecha…

Compiler error messages are generally so bad that beginners would rather just run the program anyway and see where it crashes. This is why dynamic languages have such traction. Instead we should be helping people write programs that are correct by construction.

I am planning to start building a keyboard later today (Saturn60 + Boardwalk PCB) and will try to set up a stream: twitch.tv/laughedelic. No strong commitment or schedule, so just follow me if you want to get a notification.

Going live on Twitch! Modding Boardwalk PCB with Millmax hotswap sockets #keyboard twitch.tv/laughedelic

Going live on Twitch with a keyboard build! Today finishing up the Saturn60 + Boardwalk PCB build: twitch.tv/laughedelic

For those who don’t know, Chris makes a delightful podcast about Scala tooling. If podcasts and Scala are your thing, you should definitely listen to this, so many interesting stories from people in the community!

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If you're curious what the Scala Center is up to, you can always check this page for the current quarterly roadmap. scala.epfl.ch/projects.html

Interesting thread about GPT3 creating SPARQL queries from natural language for wikidata or dbpedia

@astahfrom In category theory, just doesn't just mean just, it amounts to amounts to.

Build tools generate huge amounts of hate from developers. Which is strange, given our tolerance for misery and pain elsewhere. Possibly it's the underlying complexity, combined with the fact they are never an end in themselves. We're always trying to get on with something else.

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It's official! Metals 1.0.0 is out! 🦖 - multiple workspace folders - Java hover support - running specified scalafix rules - clean-all command - better support for Scala CLI Try it out with VS Code, Vim, Emacs and Sublime! scalameta.org/metals/blog/20…

Programming should be simple

It would be nice, but I really doubt it. If we were moving slower, maybe. But at current pace we barely take time to "refactor" our engineering practices. And that's when building better abstractions happens

Keep thinking.

I consider myself a "just in time" developer. Like I have no idea how to work with sqlite databases in Python. At least not without an ORM. By the end of the day I will. Let me tell you the secret of how I do that... I read docs and play with code until it works. 🤫

Andrej Karpathy oh come on. You think your grandma wants to make her own app? Much less maintain it. Everyone neglects the mental energy it takes to even *think* of what it is exactly you want. The entire principle of apps relies on some faith that designers; and the collective feedback of