Sparrow10

Sparrow10

Ideas, drafts, and hacks

01 Aug 2022

Problems with recursion?

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31 Jul 2022

Type-Signature

If you like functional programming, this is an awesome game you don’t want to miss. Well, it is cool if you are ne...
30 Jul 2022

SELECT DISTINCT

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29 Jul 2022

The Future of Programming (by Bret Victor)

I watched this video some years ago, and it was a fascinating depiction of the early software industry, about how creati...
28 Jul 2022

The "M" word (Monads)

When you start with functional programming, saying the M word is like swearing. This esoteric, strange, and uncommon wor...
27 Jul 2022

Processes, threads, green threads, protothreads, fibers, coroutines: what's the difference?

I found this answer on StackOverflow that is worth saving and revisiting in the future. Concurrency is a broad topic, ha...
26 Jul 2022

Time Capsule Playlist

My Time Capsule
25 Jul 2022

Remember when Scala replaced Java?

tweet by @PR0GRAMMERHUM0R
24 Jul 2022

The Actor Model

I love this conversation between Carl Hewitt, Clemens Szyperski, and Erik Meijer, describing the Actor Model. It is a v...
23 Jul 2022

Playing with Scala.js and a canvas (Part 2)

Today I played a little more with Scala.js, and make some progress on my tic-tac-toe project 🙂. Now we have a board like...
22 Jul 2022

:wq to exit conversation

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21 Jul 2022

Why Scala?

In this video, Adam Warski from SoftwareMill talks about some Scala features that make it great for business applications.