Matthew de Detrich

@JoeMcRichardson Any chance of releasing Four Last Things and The Preposterous Awesomeness of Everything on MacOS?

It's an irony that most programmers have the patience to learn giant Java frameworks but would not spend time to learn ownership in Rust, laziness in Haskell or compositionality in OCaml or Scala ..

@TJargstorff @PeterRNeumann That is their position, they have stated it many times.

@PeterRNeumann That‘s not even their position. They are just against illegal immigration.

I'm strongly against banning the AfD. But let's be clear: the reason it's been classified as *extremist* is because it doesn't recognise German citizens of immigrant descent as German. It'd be like denying Marco Rubio is American.

@ConstantinLeFev @161_161_ @GermanyDiplo @SecRubio You can read britannica.com/story/were-the… if you want to update your history.

@ConstantinLeFev @161_161_ @GermanyDiplo @SecRubio Completely wrong, Hitler only had those policies to get into power and once in power he removed these policies. He also rounded up all of the actual socialists/communists and start exterminating them. The Nazi party was in reality right wing fascist crony capatlist.

Germany just gave its spy agency new powers to surveil the opposition. That’s not democracy—it’s tyranny in disguise. What is truly extremist is not the popular AfD—which took second in the recent election—but rather the establishment’s deadly open border immigration policies that the AfD opposes. Germany should reverse course.

Apache Pekko 1.1.0 has been released. There has been quite a lot of changes so best to read the changelog at pekko.apache.org/docs/pekko/1.1… Thanks everyone for the hard work that was done in making this release!

Good article on why I will never consider writing Go. You can use simple tools to solve simple problems. I don't want to solve simple problems. The reason why go is evolving the way its described is because you sooner or later hit a barrier of what you can do with "simple" language. Go scales super well with people, it doesn't scale with domain complexity. With more complex problems and domain you need richer and richer abstractions to tame that complexity. You can't build those abstractions in a simple language. You could say "just focus on business problems!". But I do. And I still need abstractions. If I build accounting system, I cannot just throw bunch of integers together and call it a day. I need to model accounts, ledgers, charts of accounts, type of accounts, movements between accounts, enforce accounting equation, enforce non-zero amounts and do myriad of other things. I cannot do that without abstractions. I cannot do that with go. At least not with the standards I expect. valyala.medium.com/go-evolves-in-…

@cmuratori @ZedZark This isn't unique to Linux, as an example MacOS doesn't even have subpixel rendering which means that MacOS looks terrible on lower PPI displays. The way that MacOS "solves" this issue is just by bruteforcing pixel density, ergo retina displays.

@ZedZark It was considered "essential" enough that this was apparently a very consistent piece of feedback they received from Linux users - there are forum posts and threads about it, etc.

Apparently, Framework had to pick a specific screen resolution for their display to work well with popular Linux desktop environments. It should be considered a serious software engineering failure to ship a resolution-dependent desktop environment in the year 2024.

Congrats @mdedetrich!!🥳 I'll admit a year ago I was skeptical this would actually happen but I'm thrilled to be proven wrong! This is a wonderful achievement for you and the Scala community! news.apache.org/foundation/ent…

@alexelcu Lol Thenable, seriously?

Greatest scene & writing of all time #MontyPython

Apache Pekko has graduated from Apache Incubator and is now a TLP (Top Level Project) lists.apache.org/thread/grl5h0l… Thanks to everyone who participated and helped make this happen.

We have seen a release of each of 4 (sic!) supported major #Scala versions. Scala is alive and kicking!

This looks like the most intuitive validation and newtype library I have seen in Scala!

Apache Pekko 1.0.3-M1 is released! Ordinarily I wouldn't make an announcement for a patch release but this one is special because the major headline change is the capability to migrate from Akka to Pekko clusters as a rolling upgrade (see cwiki.apache.org/confluence/dis…).

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@alexelcu Yeah I don't way people persistently call Rust is a FP language, its not. It cherry picked some FP features (like pattern matching) but doesn't make it a FP language.

#Slick 3.5.0-RC1 is out! github.com/slick/slick/re… Slick is an advanced, comprehensive database access library for #Scala with strongly-typed, highly composable APIs. Version 3.5.0 adds support for Scala 3, batch inserts, and other improvements and bug fixes.

Big Scala Hiring at SwissBorg! TL;DR: Seeking 6 Senior Scala Developers. 60-95k/year + perks. Fully remote in Europe. - Looking for 6 Scala Developers to join 3 teams: DIY Investment, Identity, Loyalty. - Seeking Senior I candidates, expectations aligned with Etsy Career Ladder. We are ok with slightly less or more experienced candidates. - Salary: 60-95k/year + bi-yearly bonus + 25 days of PTO + all bank holidays (based on the country of residence) + training + upcoming VSOP program. - Hiring remotely in EU time zones (excluding some countries due to legal reasons). - We’re a 200-employee wealth management platform focused on crypto, aiming to simplify advanced investment products for everyone. Looking for candidates with an interest in the crypto market. - - Our backend is entirely in Scala (>1M LOC) and we are strongly committed to the language. Application process: intro call, tech challenge, tech interview, culture-fit interview, final interview. I’m more than happy to answer any questions you might have! I’m an engineer myself and not a hiring manager here but I should have a lot of answers jobs.lever.co/swissborg/3ee0… Other adjacent roles we are looking for - Data Engineer - Senior QA Engineer - Senior SRE jobs.lever.co/swissborg