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Francesco Serra @isomorphicdude.bsky.social · 8d

And fill out the form, if you want to take part in the activities: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Feel free to reshare with your network!

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ScalaBridge Autumn 2025 Signup

Signup to Foundations or Projects for the Autumn 2025 term at ScalaBridge London. We ask you to give three choices, in order of priority, and to indicate if you'll be able to lead a group undertaking ...

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Francesco Serra @isomorphicdude.bsky.social · 8d

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-...

ScalaBridge Autumn 2025 Start!, Wed, Oct 8, 2025, 6:00 PM | Meetup

ScalaBridge London is back for Autumn 2025. Our first session is hosted by the lovely people at SiriusXM, a long time host of ours. A big change with the new term is the s

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Francesco Serra @isomorphicdude.bsky.social · 20d

Haha! This hits home too hard 😂

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Jason Gorman @jasongorman.bsky.social · 21d

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".

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noelwelsh.bsky.social @noelwelsh.bsky.social · 22d

@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)

Learn or improve at programming in a fun and supportive environment

www.scalabridgelondon.org

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Joe @doscienceto.it · 29d

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/

How I Use Haskell for 3D Printing

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London Scala @londonscala.bsky.social · Aug 9

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!

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Scala Talks: A deep dive into streaming with fs2 & Scala Meets GenAI, Wed, Aug 13, 2025, 6:00 PM | Meetup

🎉 Come along to the London Scala Talks! 🎉 In this event you'll hear from Zainab Ali, Kannupriya Kalra and Rory Graves. **Agenda** 6:00pm - 🥤 Doors open. Come along and

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London Scala @londonscala.bsky.social · Jul 3

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: 👇
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Scala Talks: Hands-On Capture Checking & Scala Native live-coding ☀️, Wed, Jul 23, 2025, 6:00 PM | Meetup

🎉 Come along to the London Scala Talks! 🎉 Summer is upon us and it's time to get active! What's more active than, not just one, but TWO cutting-edge Scala live-coding ta

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Jason Gorman @jasongorman.bsky.social · Jun 27

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?"

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London Scala @londonscala.bsky.social · May 18

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....

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London Scala @londonscala.bsky.social · May 16

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: 🌟
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Scala Open Source Hack Night!, Wed, May 21, 2025, 6:00 PM | Meetup

Calling all Scala enthusiasts! Join us for a fun night of hacking, collaborating, and contributing to open-source projects. Whether you’re a seasoned Scala developer or jus

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Leanpub @leanpub.bsky.social · May 7

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

Practical FP in Scala + Functional event-driven architecture

Practical FP in Scala (A hands-on approach) & Functional event-driven architecture, aka FEDA, (Powered by Scala 3), together as a bundle! The content of PFP in Scala is a requirement to understand…

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Francesco Serra @isomorphicdude.bsky.social · May 9

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

GitHub - creativescala/krop: A simple and functional web service library

A simple and functional web service library. Contribute to creativescala/krop development by creating an account on GitHub.

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London Scala @londonscala.bsky.social · May 2

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:
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London & Krakow Scala Talks: AI with Metals & Complexity is a sin, Wed, May 14, 2025, 6:00 PM | Meetup

🎉 Come along to the London & Kraków joint Scala Talks! 🎉 In this event you'll hear from Volodymyr Yaroslavskyi live in London, and a Metals contributor streamed from the

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scalabridgelondon.bsky.social @scalabridgelondon.bsky.social · Apr 30

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.

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Francesco Serra @isomorphicdude.bsky.social · Apr 27

Yeah, I agree on this. I think that in the right context, not being mainstream is a blessing in disguise. Of course, that comes with all the obvious consequences, but with the right team, anything can be done

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Francesco Serra @isomorphicdude.bsky.social · Apr 26

Right. Can you elaborate on what you mean by "mainstream"? To my knowledge, none of the languages with the capabilities that you mentioned can be considered mainstream, according to what *I* would consider a mainstream language.

Francesco Serra @isomorphicdude.bsky.social · Apr 26

Sounds like you're talking about Scala 😉

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Jason Gorman @jasongorman.bsky.social · Apr 23

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.

Greg Jenner @gregjenner.bsky.social · Apr 23

Someone on Threads noticed you can type any random sentence into Google, then add “meaning” afterwards, and you’ll get an AI explanation of a famous idiom or phrase you just made up. Here is mine

• Al Overview
The idiom "you can't lick a badger twice" means you can't trick or deceive someone a second time after they've been tricked once. It's a warning that if someone has already been deceived, they are unlikely to fall for the same trick again.
Here's a more detailed explanation:
• Licking: "Licking" in this context means to trick or deceive someone.
• Badger: The badger is a wild animal, and the phrase likely originates from the historical sport of badger baiting where dogs were used to harass

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Francesco Serra @isomorphicdude.bsky.social · Mar 29

Indeed, that would make your decoder work as an anti corruption layer. This is why I prefer the `Option[NonEmptyList[A]]` notation for interfaces that handle inbound flows

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noelwelsh.bsky.social @noelwelsh.bsky.social · Mar 28

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.

Noel Welsh: Talks

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