Today Claude told me "this is something that can't be automated, it needs to be reviewed by a human (you or me)
Working in public motivates me to push better code, getting free CI minutes is just a nice side-effect.
An expense app corrupted a year of my data, so I built my own, with AI writing the code. Now open source: alexitc.com/blog/2026-10-16-…
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eezo.io
A new Scala framework we're cooking
Asked Claude to code a flow that uploads a file from the backend to S3, it happily used a pre-signed url instead of just uploading it
I can't express how annoyed Netflix makes me, I don't want to pay for it, still, I paid for a month and can't use it because I'm now in another country
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sbt 2 is available!
sbt 2 is a new major series of sbt, based on Scala 3 constructs, Bazel-compatible cache system, and parallel JVM/JS/Native cross building. Have you experienced it? Let us know what you think!
scala-lang.org/blog/2026/06/…
I'm sharing my experience getting Claude to update our scala webapp template, its like an advanced scala-steward reddit.com/r/scala/comments/…?
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If a developer decides to give away all their courses for free, the least the community can do is cover the hosting. Agree?
1/3 I’m looking to raise a little money for a #Scala cause:
In short, Wix wants $661 to renew my LearnScala.dev website (Image 1). This site offers 100% FREE video training courses for developers who are interested in learning, Scala...
=> ko-fi.com/alvin/goal?g=0
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Kyo RC4 is out, and it's yet another big one 🚀
🧩 kyo-ui: web UIs as pure values, rich reactivity across clients and servers
🌐 kyo-browser: drive a real browser with automatic settlement across all platforms
🔌 kyo-ffi: bind a C library once, call it from JVM, JS, and Native 😱
🪄 kyo-compat: write a library once, ship it to six effect backends (Kyo, ZIO, Cats Effect, Future, Ox, Twitter Future)
🕸️ WebAssembly is now a fourth cross-build target, published to Maven Central
The cherry on top? The project is finally fully documented and has a new website 🥳
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sbt 2.0.0 has officially landed! 🎉🎉
Here are the biggest changes for the Scala ecosystem:
✅ Scala 3 constructs for build definitions
✅ Bazel-compatible caching system
✅ Faster startup times with the native-image sbtn client
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Scala has long been a magnet for innovation and, although that's actually desirable, the consequent fragmentation of the ecosystem is a major issue for library authors. And yes, Kyo worsens it.
It's time for a proper solution! Forget F[_], meet kyo-compat: write your library once, support ZIO, Cats Effect, Future, Ox, Twitter Future, and Kyo 🪄
✅ Zero overhead: every method is inline and lowers to the backend's own primitive. No typeclass dispatch
✅ No degraded features: capabilities like tracing work as if using the underlying libraries directly
✅ Fully isolated: each artifact depends only on its target library. No Kyo runtime, zero dependencies
✅ SBT plugin: cross-publishes every backend from one source tree
One source. Every stack.
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This is a heavy story about a brilliant Scala developer who put his life into his work. 💔 After many health and personal problems, he open-sourced his project for everyone. Let's help him find a new job or support his work! 🙏 #scala
gist.github.com/japgolly/538…
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📰 Call for Papers:
Special Issue on Stability at the Journal of Financial Technology
Following the success of the 1st Stability Workshop (workshop.stability.nexus), we call for papers for a special issue at the JFT on the theme of Stability broadly construed.
New blog post, resolving a coding challenge with Scala: alexitc.com/blog/2025-09-14-…
TIL: Java 17 has a HexFormat class to convert a hex-string into a byte array docs.oracle.com/en/java/java…
New blog post on how to deal with Java builder's pattern in Scala alexitc.com/blog/2025-08-31-…











