#Scala folks, in Italy 🇮🇹 we're approaching the Republic Day, and a new #YAES version is here to celebrate! 🎉 The focus was on testing YAES applications, so we introduced some utilities to deal with effects in tests (mainly for @scalatest). Check it out! github.com/rcardin/yaes...

It seems to me that in the era of #AI and agentic development, non-tech people are discovering software engineering. Many of the proposed processes had been around for 40 years, more or less, waiting for their time.

A couple of months ago, I had the pleasure of giving a talk at @scalar-conf.com . Now the video 📽️ is available! The talk was about how #Scala, #Kotlin, and #Java use continuations to implement their light version of threads 🧵 Enjoy! www.youtube.com/watch?v=2TA-...

#Scala lovers, #YAES 0.19.0 is out! 🚀 We focused on making the HTTP Client more ergonomic and usable. We create a `uri(...)` interpolator checking URI validity at compile time. 💪 Moreover, we strengthen the decoding errors hierarchy. Here are the release notes: github.com/rcardin/yaes...

New version of #YAES is here, and this time it's huge! 🚀 We have a new integration with #Scala Jsoniter, a new testing library with primitives for testing the `Raise[E]` effect, a bunch of other stuff... and a new version of the `Reader[R]` effect based on opaque types 👻 github.com/rcardin/yaes...

The slides for my talk at the @scalar-conf.com are available. It's called "The Concurrency Triangle: Scala Fibers, Java Virtual Threads, and Kotlin Coroutines". Check'em out! github.com/rcardin/scal...

Today it's Father's Day in Italy! 🇮🇹 What better event for a new version of #YAES? Version 0.16.0 introduces HTTP Client! It's a wrapper around #Java HttpClient, but lifted to effect tracking 🚀 Plus, we reinvented the site: blog.rcard.in/yaes/ Here are the release notes: github.com/rcardin/yaes...

Spring 🌷 is approaching fast here in Italy 🇮🇹, and a new version of #Scala #YAES is here! - a new integration with Circe 🐍; - a new `Retry` effect handler ↩️, which allows retrying code execution using different policies; and much more! Checkout the release notes: github.com/rcardin/yaes...

I revamped my blog with a new look and feel. 🌻 There are articles about #Scala, #Java, #Kotlin, functional programming, and software engineering. EST. 2013 ⭐️ blog.rcard.in

S. Valentine is approaching for #Scala lovers ❤️, and it brings version 0.13.0 of the #YAES library. 🥁 We added an HTTP server this time...yes, we did it! A fully effectful server, based on virtual threads, with graceful shutdown! 😱 It's still in its experimental phase, so any feedback is welcome 🤝

Here we go again, hashtag#Scala lovers 🎸! Version 0.12.1 of hashtag#YAES is here with big new features! ✨ We implemented the graceful shutdown for the `Async` effect! If you want, you can interact with the shutdown process using the `Shutdown` effect 😱 Release notes: github.com/rcardin/yaes...

🤖 Direct-style programming can feel elegant until you try to compose it. This session explores what happens when flatMap enters the picture. Check out "Yo Dawg, Heard You Want To FlatMap Your Direct-Style" from Riccardo Cardin

Hey, #Scala lovers 💕, Santa is coming 🎅, bringing version 0.11.0 of #YAES this year! 🎁 This time, we added the integration with Reactive Streams so that you can use YAES with any library implementing the standard (Akka, Vert.x, Http4s...). github.com/rcardin/yaes... Merry Christmas! 🎄

Sad to learn that there will not be a #lambdadays 2026 conference in Krakow. As a consolation, all the 2025 talks have now been published including mine: www.youtube.com/watch?v=LDln...

#Scala lovers ,💕#YAES v0.10.0 is out! Bridge the gap between YAES and Typelevel Cats Effect 🐈 with the new `yaes-cats` module. Convert between IO monads, integrate with `Validated` types, and get `MonadError` instances for `Raise`. Check out the release notes: github.com/rcardin/yaes...

#Scala lovers, #YAES 0.9.0 is here! 🚀 Full I/O stream support with `Flow` 🌊. Read files, process lines, and write output with ease. In addition, we introduced `channelFlow`, the bridge 🌉 between channels and flows! Cold flows + concurrent emission = 🔥 Check it out 👉 github.com/rcardin/yaes...

Hack.Commit.Push Switzerland is just one week away! 🇨🇭 This is a great opportunity to get involved in Open Source projects like @assertj.github.io, with direct guidance from the maintainers!

We've closed the first round of applications for the Scalar Call for Papers! We'll be announcing the first speakers for the 2026 edition very soon! In the meantime, check out our #myscalastory series at sml.io/myscalastory, featuring insights from top Scala and functional programming experts!

A new month, a new version of #YAES 🥳 Version 0.8.0 finally introduces the `YaesApp`. Now, you can develop your direct style #Scala app, and Yaes will take care of the execution of most of the effects 🙌 Plus, we redesigned Channels and added overflow policies! 💪 github.com/rcardin/yaes...

#Scala Effects lovers, here is the Halloween 🎃 release of #YAES. We introduced Channels in the library. Now, fibers can communicate asynchronously through message passing 📨. #Kotlin Channels heavily inspired the feature. Here are the release notes: github.com/rcardin/yaes...

My first @scaladays.org just finished. Thanks to all the people who attended my talk and took some time to chat with me 🙏 There are a lot of engineers, data scientists, front-enders, and students who do extraordinary things using #Scala every day, and are the heart of our community 💕. Thank you all

Version 0.5.0 of the #YAES effect system is here 🚀 (just in time for @scaladays.org...fiuuu). We added the `State[S]` effect to the #Scala 3 party 🥳. However, be careful that the current version is not thread-safe. Here are the release notes: github.com/rcardin/yaes...

I'm reading @sam-cooper.bsky.social's "Kotlin Coroutine Confidence". It's a masterpiece💫, even if you already know #Kotlin coroutine machinery: It's worth your money 💰: pragprog.com/titles/sckot...

#DropsOf #Kafka: It's possible to force an order on messages read by consumers from a topic by using the same key for all messages to be read in order. Naive, but effective in most cases 😜

#DropsOf #Kotlin: Kotlin was the first language on the JVM implementing continuation passing style (CSP) directly in the compiler 🚄. It rewrites every suspending function using CSP, adding a `Continuation` object to the parameters and rewriting the body accordingly 🪄

#DropsOf #Java: Checked exceptions were a good idea ✨. They are some form of an effect system. You know precisely what kind of effects a function performs. To eliminate the effect, you need to handle it, and the compiler forces this behavior. However, they don't compose with lambdas 🤷‍♂️

#DropsOf #kotlin: Do you know you can implement the race primitive 🚗 for coroutines in just one line of code? The `channelFlow` has its coroutineScope, and when the `first` function cancels the Flow execution, it cancels all the running coroutines that did not win the race. 😍

#Scala lovers, version 0.4.0 of the #YAES effect system is out!🚀 What a journey.🤪 The new `Resource` effect is here, and now you can even zip two different `Flow`. Wow, concurrent programming on flows! 🎉 Here are the release notes: github.com/rcardin/yaes...

Hey, #Scala lovers! I'll give a talk at the next @scaladays.org 2025 🎉. I still can't believe it 🤪. Let's meet in Losanna to share our experiences on direct-style and monadic effect systems! I'll bring my (on-going) knowledge about the former, with my library #YAES ⭐️ See you there 👋

Today, I talked at Ticino Software Craft 🧑‍🔬. We discussed #Scala Effect Systems, both monadic and direct-style (in detail, the #YAES effect system). It was a pleasure to join the Ticino software community. Thanks, guys, for the opportunity 🙏 www.youtube.com/watch?v=PEiM...

Save the date 📅! I will discuss #Scala and Direct-Style Effect Systems this Wednesday at the Ticino Software Craft meetup 🚀. See ya online 👋 www.linkedin.com/events/doyou...

On Wednesday, May 28th, I will join the team from Ticino Software Craft to share some knowledge and ideas about Effect Systems in #Scala ⭐. Everybody's welcome 👋. You can't miss it 💯 www.linkedin.com/events/doyou...

Hello folks 👋 ScalaIO is back for another edition in 2025 🥳 🌐 It will be held at La Grande Crypte, Paris 🇫🇷 on the 17/10/2025 🎟️ Early birds tickets are already open to sales(f: Person => `scala.io`) 🤝 CFP & sponsorships will open very shortly See you soon 😊

Version 0.3.0 of the #YAES library just landed 🚀. No new effects this time, but the porting of the first bunch of methods of the #Kotlin `Flow` type! #Scala has flows now, and they compose well with YAES effects 🙌 Here are the release notes: github.com/rcardin/yaes...

Yesterday I played with the #YAES library to understand what is missing to gain RT. Guess what 🤔? Maybe I managed to introduce some form of RT in a #Scala direct-style approach. I need you 🫵 to join the discussion: github.com/rcardin/yaes... cc @scalatimes.com

Hey, #Scala devs! To celebrate the Liberation Day in Italy 🇮🇹(April 25th), here is a new version of the #YAES library! We added the `Log` effect that does what its name promises 😅 Keep on coding! 🙌 github.com/rcardin/yaes... @scalatimes.com

Someone tried to understand if #YAES can be successfully integrated into a Tagless-Final #Scala application 😍, and the pros and cons. I never thought someone would be interested in my library. I'm so excited 🎉

I’ve been #coding for almost 20 years in the “traditional” way. 💻 Now, it's time to give AI a chance. I use it in its basic form, such as Copilot. Can someone point me to some resources to implement a more complex and effective workflow? 🙏

Yo Dawg, Heard You Want To FlatMap Your Direct-Style by @rcardin.bsky.social Subscribe to our our YouTube channel so you don't miss the rest of #scalarconf videos.

#Scala Effect Systems' lovers 💕, version 0.1.0 of the #YAES library is out! 🎉 We added the `Clock` and the `System` effect. I know, not too much, but it's still honest work 😜 Check it out: github.com/rcardin/yaes... cc @scalatimes.com

The video of my talk at @scalar-conf.com is finally out! 🎉 In the talk, I live-coded a mini effect system using nothing but #Scala 3 context functions, building it up step by step. youtube.com/watch?v=TXUx... Thanks, @softwaremill.com, for this marvelous opportunity! 🙏

I'm trying to use phantom types 👻 to create an alternative definition of the Effect in #YAES. As you know, YAES is a #Scala Effect System trying to use something similar to direct-style (Capability Passing Style). Does anybody want to join the discussion? 👋 github.com/rcardin/yaes...

I'd like to build some libraries that are usable across #Java, #Scala & #Kotlin, but I also want to be free to pick my implementation language & libraries (Project Loom, Cats-Effect, Kotlin coroutines). This helps me expose nice APIs to all devs. Work in progress: github.com/funfix/tasks

On my way to Italy 🇮🇹. Again, thanks to @scalar-conf.com and @softwaremill.com for such a fantastic organization 👏. The talks had an extremely high quality 📈 See ya! Don't forget to leave a star ⭐ to my project, github.com/rcardin/yaes 🙏

The last day of the @scalar-conf.com is over. Oh boy, what an adventure. 🎉 Many thanks to all the people who work to make it happen 🙏 Thanks to @rockthejvm.com for being such a great mentor and friend. Thanks to Martin for all the rest 😜

Yesterday was such a roller coaster! 🎢 I did my first talk ever to @scalar-conf.com, which was terrific. 🎉 Here is the deck: github.com/rcardin/scal... If you are there, let’s meet 🤩

Will there be any Italian 🇮🇹 🤌 🍝engineers at @scalar-conf.com? Let’s meet in Warsaw in about 1 week 🎉

In #YAES, the Async effect lifts a #Scala program to the structured concurrency world. 🚀 We have Fibers to have complete control over the concurrency, but we also provided the standard primitives 🧱 like `race`, `pair` and `racePair`. github.com/rcardin/yaes...

Welcome @warski.org as a next #Scalarconf speaker! Production-ready direct-style Scala Grab your ticket 🛒 sml.io/tickets #scalar #scala #itconference #functionalprogramming

📣Hey, #Scala devs. It's a pleasure my last fatigue: #YAES, a shiny new Effect System library implementing Algebraic Effects. What's different with YAES? Well, you can use a for-comprehension or a capability passing style! 😱 github.com/rcardin/yaes/ See you at the @scalar-conf.com 👋