Thank you for attending last week's Scala Talks! Thanks go to Medidata for having us round for pizza, drinks and a beautiful venue. Special thanks go to our fantastic speakers Tomasz Godzik and @noelwelsh.bsky.social . See you next time!

Come along to the next Scala Talk on Wed (Mar 11th), hosted at Medidata! Tomasz Godzik will unveil Metals v2 and its impressive performance improvements! Noel Welsh will share his thoughts on Code as Communication, and what can go wrong when we don't! Sign up 👇: www.meetup.com/london-scala...

@kubukoz.mstdn.party.ap.brid.gy made this very nice video about the web framework I've been working on in my spare time: youtu.be/lY88Z1JnUpI You should check it out! (The framework itself is at www.creativescala.org/krop/)

#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...

Get your #Haskell fix at the London #Scala User Group! We're excited to hear from Joe Warren, creator of the 3D printed London Scala User Group logo.

⭐ Kick off the year with a round of London Scala Talks ⭐ Hear from Sabrina Konrad-Lee on "Frameless: an introduction" and @doscienceto.it on "How I Use Haskell for 3D Printing". Come for the talks, discussions, and free pizza! 🗓️ 14th January at Permutive 👉 Sign up www.meetup.com/en-au/london...

This is in collaboration with @scalabridgelondon.bsky.social . If you're in London and Scala / FP inclined it would be great to see you there!

The festive season is upon us and we have something special... a Christmas social event on Dec 12th (Fri) at the Science Museum!! 🎄 Come for some drinks (free entry, sign up required) or Power Up and enjoy a night of fun retro games 🎮🤖 (£20). Details below 🧵

With Advent of Code coming up I've written a blog post about solving coding challenges with functional programming. Maybe someone reads it and recognizes that you dont need deep understanding of type theory or monads to get started with the cool stuff. Examples in OCaml. ecsodikas.eu/posts/functi...

Our next #Scala #OpenSource Hack Night on Nov 19th (Wed) will be held at Medidata, starting at 6pm! Come and enjoy a night of fun hacking & learning! Sign up here: 🌟 www.meetup.com/london-scala...

📣 It gives me great pleasure in welcoming @armanbil.ge of #typelevel to #BayAreaScala #meetup with a highly anticipated talk 👉 Calico: my love letter to the Resource monad For full details of his talk and other speakers can be found here: luma.com/9ww60v3l #scala #fp #SanFrancisco @scala-lang.org

Our next Scala Talks event is happening on Nov 12 (Wed) at Depop! We have some international speakers! Agnès Cardin will share her experience publishing a Scala book, and Maciej Gorywoda will show us how Jetbrain's AI tools can help you write Scala! Sign up here: www.meetup.com/london-scala...

Our next #Scala #OpenSource Hack Night on Oct 22th (Wed) will be held at SiriusXM, starting at 6pm! Come and enjoy a night of fun hacking & learning! Sign up here: 🌟 www.meetup.com/london-scala...

A reminder that Scalabridge London is back on from tomorrow! A truly great opportunity to get to know amazing people and work on interesting projects to master Scala and functional programming! Sign up here if you want to join us: www.meetup.com/scalabridge-...

I'm challenging the narrative that "A.I." is a multiplier in the hands of experts. I see it being repeated everywhere, but there's no credible evidence. If anything, an expert sees more problems in the output and spends more time fixing them. "It would have been quicker to write it myself".

@scalabridgelondon.bsky.social is back in October! Here's the projects we'll be working on: www.scalabridgelondon.org/projects/ Sign up for your choice here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... (All the details and much more on our website www.scalabridgelondon.org)

Over the weekend I gave a talk on using #Haskell for 3d Printing at MuniHac No recording, but the slides are up here: doscienceto.it/cad-talk/

Join our Scala Talks event next week Aug 13th (Wed) for two exciting talks! 🌊 Zainab Ali will take us on a deep dive of fs2 Streams and where you can use them 🤖 @kannupriyakalra.bsky.social and Rory Graves will introduce us to LLM4S - A Scala library for AI! www.meetup.com/london-scala...

We have two exciting live-coding talks for you this July! ☀️ Join us on Jul 23rd (Wed) 6pm to see some cutting edge Scala in action from Nicolas Rinaudo and Anton Svirdov! Sign up here: 👇 www.meetup.com/london-scala...

The year is 2025, and people are still saying, "But how can I write the test first if I don't know what the code's supposed to do?"

Travel sustainably to @scaladays.org and enjoy the journey with the Scala Days Train Jam. Join fellow #Scala developers from London and Paris to hack on projects on the train. Find out more at www.meetup.com/london-scala....

Our next #Scala #OpenSource Hack Night on May 21th (Wed) will be held at SiriusXM, starting at 6pm! Come and enjoy a night of fun, learning and friendship! Sign up here: 🌟 www.meetup.com/london-scala...

Practical FP in Scala + Functional event-driven architecture leanpub.com/b/pfp-feda-s... by Gabriel Volpe is the featured bundle of ebooks 📚 on the Leanpub homepage! leanpub.com #FunctionalProgramming #Scala #Software #books #ebooks

Last night's @scalabridgelondon.bsky.social's session was lots of fun, working with @hktpe.bsky.social on github.com/creativescal... Come along and join us if you want to learn or improve your Scala-foo with interesting projects

Come alone to the next London #Scala talks on May 14th (Wed), hosted by The Trade Desk! We'll hear from Volodymyr Yaroslavskyi on Complexity - how to spot it and improve on it. A mystery friend from Kraków will also be show us how to use AI with Metals! Sign up here: www.meetup.com/london-scala...

Last Thursday we started our summer term with a great session at SiriusXM. Next session is online on the 8th of May: www.meetup.com/scalabridge-... We have a few new groups running this term (music, Cats, another web project) as well as the usual foundations / Cats Effect / etc.

Tried it. It's true. LLMs don't say "I don't know" when they don't know. Because they have no way of knowing they don't know. Because they don't *know* anything. A factually accurate response and a completely hallucinated response are the same thing to these models.

Just added slides for my talk "Tagless Final for Humans" to my page of talks: noelwelsh.com/landing/talks/ I gave this talk today at @scalar-conf.com. The core is a new encoding for tagless final in Scala, which makes much better use of Scala's features than the standard encoding.

Rustify Scala? (Look at the top right corner)

Why Functional Programming Matters https://blog.rhetoricalmusings.com/posts/why-fp-matters/

Absolutely hilarious piece by @hillelwayne.com : hillelwayne.com/post/indiana...

@scalabridgelondon.bsky.social is an amazing community of people seeking to improve on their knowledge and understanding of Scala and beyond, run by @noelwelsh.bsky.social. With different work groups and activities, everyone can share and learn at their pace on the topic of their interest

The IEEE republished a lightly edited version of my recent essay, "In Praise of 'Normal' Engineers". 🙌 spectrum.ieee.org/10x-engineer The greatest engineering orgs in the world are not the most pedigreed or top heavy, but the ones where normal engineers can move the business forward, day by day.

Our next event is this Thursday, in-person at the offices of SiriusXM: www.meetup.com/scalabridge-... Come along if you want to improve at programming. We have a variety of groups working at different levels on various projects.

hello #Scala. this account will mostly be used to post/retweet release information and blog posts www.scala-sbt.org

Significant #scala announcement: after years of idle conversation, and a more-focused discussion over the past couple of months, the decision has formally been made to jump Scala 3's requirements up to JDK 17, as of the next LTS release: https://www.scala-lang.org/news/next-scala-lts-jdk.html

On pretty much a daily basis, I see someone advocating for relaxing software quality to speed up delivery. You can add that to "adding people to the team will help us deliver sooner" for really bad advice in the majority of cases.

Our next Scala talks will be on March 6th at Imperial College! Sign up here! www.meetup.com/london-scala... Don't forget about our #OpenSource hack this week on Feb 26th! (www.meetup.com/london-scala...) as well as ScalaBridge online on the 27th (www.meetup.com/scalabridge-...) See you there! 👋

Our next #Scala #OpenSource Hack Night is happening on Feb 26th (Wed) starting at 6pm. Come and enjoy a night of fun, learning and friendship :) Sign up here: 🌟 www.meetup.com/london-scala...

A skilled programmer is like a poet who can put into words those ideas that others find inexpressible. -- Danny Hillis

"It’s not uncommon to find front end code lacking in fast automated tests. We often find ront-end code's broken as a result. This is usually because that code's hard to test in isolation. This is almost always because of a lack of separation of concerns." codemanship.wordpress.com/2025/01/29/t...

Our next event is in-person at Mercator's London office: www.meetup.com/scalabridge-... We have a great list of projects (music player, library management, query language, and more) and are still working out which ones we'll commit to.

The more I use GenAI coding tools, the more I am convinced keeping to "traditional" software engineering practices is what works most productive here. As in 10x more productive. E.g. - Small changes - Test that the change works before moving on - (unit) tests wherever you can

Yes, I know that the economics of conference organizing is to blame. I can lament about what we lost though. It was really nice when there used to be conferences that were really cross-tech/cross-platform watering holes. Really wonderful opportunities for communities to learn from one another!

Build protocols, not platforms. Today, more than ever, this has become paramount.

Block AI scrapers with Anubis https://lobste.rs/s/s9yq5a ##release ##web ##ai

Porting PFP from Haskell to OCaml https://lobste.rs/s/d029dt ##haskell ##ml

Thanks @channingwalton.bsky.social, I couldn't have expressed this thought any better. #Scala as an ecosystem needs to focus on tooling, rather than introducing the nth syntactic variant which puts people off

doobie-typesafe arturaz.github.io/doobie-types... #scala

🚀 Scala 2.13.16 is here! This release improves compatibility with JDK 24, supports Scala 3.6, improves Scala 3 cross-building and migration, and more. There are also a few minor breaking changes. Details: github.com/scala/scala/...