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Crucial Scala 3.7 news that might be overlooked: Android development is now unblocked! ✅ #scala

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Kotlin/Wasm (wasmJs variant) is going to be promoted to Beta! #kotlin #wasm

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Scala 3.7.0 has been released! 🎉 ✅ [stable] SIP-58: Named Tuples ✅ [stable] SIP-52: Binary APIs 👀 [preview] SIP-62: For comprehension improvements 🧪 [experimental] SIP-61: Unroll 🧪 [experimental] SIP-68: Reference-able Package Objects More at scala-lang.org/news/3.7.0/

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If you replace “artist” with “OSS developer”, and drop “art” from the text it sounds like #OSS development to me 😅😂😭

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Offline support is coming for Fastmail's web interface. https://www.fastmail.com/blog/revamped-inbox/

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Movie you’ve watched more than six times using gifs (“Hard mode” no Star Wars, Star Trek, or LOTR)

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This is a real good article www.seangoedecke.com/wicked-featu...

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I like Bluesky, but I can't take it seriously if it's not actually federated. It's just an X wannabe, subject to same evolutionary constraints, if: 1. People can be banned; 2. The entire network can go down; 3. We don't have an EU hosting provider.

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"A Visual Journey Through Async Rust" This seems useful for me as a Rust beginner. #rust #programming #tutorial github.com/alexpusch/ru...

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Have you tried Kotlin Notebook? It’s now bundled with @intellijidea.com – perfect for interaction with your JVM code. 🔥 Our developer advocate, @vergauwensimon.bsky.social, is testing prompts and tool calling with @langchain4j.dev. Play with the gist yourself 👉 gist.github.com/nomisRev/69d...

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"Writing the address on the envelope was awkward, as I haven’t used a pen in several years" 😱 I can imagine that in another couple of years people will say "writing was awkward as I haven't written anything in several years", but anyway, this post was a fun read: code.mendhak.com/gpl-v2-addre...

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sttp client 4 - the #Scala HTTP client you always wanted: integration with cats-effect

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Cat yawning #cats #pic

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Ever wondered if you could self-host Signal and truly own your secure messaging? 🛡️💻 Dive into this hands-on journey and discover why it’s not as simple as it seems! 👉 softwaremill.com/can-you-self...

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#Scala.js 1.19.0 is released! It contains significant performance improvements for the WebAssembly backend (it is now often faster than JS), native support for JS async/await, and a way to leverage Wasm's JavaScript Promise Integration (JSPI). Read more at www.scala-js.org/news/2025/04...

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"Let me in" #cats #pic

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Scala Plugin 2025.1 is out! The update brings: - Support for the new syntax of context bounds and givens - Improved handling of named tuples - The new "Generate sbt managed sources" action - X-Ray hints for apply methods and all parameter names Read more: blog.jetbrains.com/scala/2025/0... #scala

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Scala Sampler for Functional Soundscapes by Johanna Odersky Subscribe to our our YouTube channel so you don't miss the rest of #scalarconf videos.

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Tour of Jox: Go-like (selectable), completable, performant channels for #Java

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"Reasoning with Async Rust" by Zainab Ali at Rustikon Conference 2025 www.youtube.com/watch?v=X6sO... #YouTube #Rust #Programming

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RIP Pope Francis 🙏 His final speech from yesterday highlights what Christianity is about: love and compassion for the marginalized, for the poor, for the starving, for the injured and the displaced, for the victims of war. Love as a guiding principle, not hate. www.vatican.va/content/fran...

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Christ is risen! This is one of those rare occasions when Orthodox Easter falls on in the same Sunday as Catholic Easter (Julian vs Gregorian calendars). Happy Easter everyone!

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I need unplug from online social-media and global news. See you all on Apr. 28th 🕯️

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Love this endler.dev/2025/best-pr...

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Evolving Scala by Martin Odersky during the Scalar Conference 2025. Subscribe to our our YouTube channel so you don't miss the rest of #scalarconf videos.

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repo.scala-sbt.org is currently down, and we're contacting JFrog to restore it (as always thanks for supporting open source!) github.com/sbt/sbt/issu... #Scala

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Happy Black Monday everyone /s

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#Windows vs #Linux

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All “European alternatives” lists that people are building right now are suggesting against Open-Source or small-web software built by US entities, replacing them with less safe or even unethical alternatives. I'm all for “let's encourage EU software”, but don't be stupid.

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New video! James Ward on Effect Oriented Programming, writing code in the age of AI, good mental models, speaking at conferences and endless curiosity: youtu.be/M8DuVYnsW5A

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Saturday's park walk

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“Why I stopped using AI code editors” The article is spot on. I've gained my intuition & expertise, aka good taste in software engineering, by suffering through learning and taking care of the nitty-gritty while thinking of abstraction and reuse. lucianonooijen.com/blog/why-i-s...

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Tagged vs Untagged Unions (in Scala) #Scala #Scala3 #Programming alexn.org/blog/2025/04...

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