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jducoeurNo, I haven't been posting much here lately. That's mostly because life has reached a pretty good pinnacle of crazy-busy.
Obviously, Querki continues to dominate my thoughts a lot. The project that we were going to do for Arisia didn't happen this year (since Arisia got Complicated), but has rather suddenly turned much more serious for next year, with a lot more people on board and the system likely because fairly central to Team Arisia.
I just got a new client at my dayjob. (Actually the same client I had for most of last year, but a different group -- last week involved a bit of amusing chaos as they shipped me an underpowered laptop, I pointed out that I needed something beefier, and then they figured out that my old laptop hadn't been wiped yet, and would I like it back?) So I'm in heavy ramp-up there.
After about 18 months of officially being the deputy of the Boston Scala Meetup, the founder finally recognized that he was a bit burned out, and he formally handed that off to me. So I ran a small survey of the community there, created a new Slack group as a result (and am now trying to get people to actually use it), and am starting to work out this year's Meetup schedule.
And today's new fun? I've had a talk accepted at a conference for the first time!
For all that I've been teaching Stuff (SCA dance most notably) for decades, and have been teaching Scala and presenting at Unconferences for several years now, I've never really done the conference circuit before about four years ago, and I've never done a talk before.
In this case, it's the Typelevel Summit, so I've dived into the deep end here. NE Scala is my "home" conference, a joint production of the Boston, New York and Philadelphia Scala Meetups -- this year is in Philly. But it's really three conferences joined at the hip: the Typelevel Summit, NE Scala proper, and the Unconference. The Summit is in some ways the bigtime: a gathering of the Scala-functional-programming hardcore, members of a growing group that encourages and collaborates on FP-centric Scala libraries. It includes a lot of the heavy hitters of the Scala world.
So I'm a tad intimidated, but also rather excited. My talk is specifically intro-level, and is about my own journey to finally building a pure-FP system for the first time -- in this case, Querki's new API-level test harness. The resulting code is some of the prettiest I've ever written, so I'm going to burble a bit about how that code evolved, and show off the relevant FP concepts that make it possible.
All of which goes to explain why I haven't had a lot to say about SCA, Fandom and stuff like this -- right at the moment, programming is dominating my brain, so I've mostly been posting over in my professional blog, which has wound up very Scala 3-centric for now. But I'll try to find some time to at least diarize and do some reviews here...
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