As tweeted, I made some sbt stickers.

I made these for myself, but I've been sharing them with the contributors to the sbt ecosystem.

If you've ever reported a bug, answered Stackoverflow question, helped someone else's build problem, created an sbt plugin, given a talk about sbt, or sent in a pull request, please come say hello at ScalaMatsuri or Scala Days.

Wrote herding cats: day 17 featuring initial and terminal objects, product, duality, and coproduct.

Model representation

x⁽ⁱ⁾ denotes input variables (feature vector), and y⁽ⁱ⁾ denotes the output (target variable). A pair (x⁽ⁱ⁾, y⁽ⁱ⁾) is called a training example. A list of 1 .. m training example is called a training set.

Supervised learning can be modeled as a process of coming up with a good function h called hypothesis that predicts y from an unknown x.

For instance, given square footage, predict price of a house in some city. In the above, h_θ(x) is modeled as a linear function. The hypothesis h_θ(x) = θ₀ + θ₁ x is called linear regression with one variable (or univariate linear regression).

This is part 3 of sbt server integration series. I've covered VS Code and Sublime Text 3 thus far.

In this post I am going to discuss an old new problem of encoding file path as Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) reference.

As of 2017, the authoritative source of information is RFC 8089 - The "file" URI Scheme written by Matthew Kerwin.

RFC 8089 The "file" URI Scheme https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc8089 Wow, it actually happened.

— Matthew Kerwin (@phluid61) February 18, 2017

Future readers might also want to search for "file URI scheme RFC", and find the latest version. If you're a programmer, read the RFC. This post is to raise the awareness of the some of the issues around file to URI encoding, but it's not a substitution.

Recently I've been running into interop problems as some platforms are unable to parse file:/foo/bar. But this is not the first time I'm having trouble with file path represented as URI. Considering that the notion of filesystem goes back to 1960s, and URL has been around since 1990s, it's surprising that we haven't come to a concensus on this. But then again, like decimal numbers, once you start digging deeper, or start exchanging data, we find some glitches in the Matrix.

On Tech Hub blog I demonstrated how to use sbt server from VS Code to display compiler errors from a running sbt session. In this post, I'll show how to do that for Sublime Text 3.

Over the weekend I assembled an Ergodox.

• Infinity ErgoDox Ergonomic Keyboard Kit via massdrop
• Cherry MX Brown switches
• Datamancer Infinity Ergodox Hardwood Case (Black Walnut / Original) via massdrop
• Plum Blossom PBT Dye-Subbed Keycap Set (OEM, Blank) via massdrop

Wrote sbt 1.1.0-RC1 with sbt server and slash syntax on Lightbend Tech Hub blog.

It's been a month since sbt 1.0 shipped, and I can finally sit back and think about sbt server again. Using my weekends time, I started hacking on an implementation of Scala language server on top of sbt server.

In this post, I'd like to introduce a version scheme that I call Persistent Versioning. Most of the ideas presented in this post are not new or my own. Let me know if there's already a name for it.

In 2015, Jake Wharton (@JakeWharton) wrote a blog post titled Java Interoperability Policy for Major Version Updates:

A new policy from @jessewilson and I for the libraries we work on to ensure major version updates are interoperable: https://t.co/zKqYRwrXmq

— Jake Wharton (@JakeWharton) December 11, 2015

1. Rename the Java package to include the version number.

   This immediately solves the API compatibility problem from transitive dependencies on multiple versions. Classes from each can be loaded on the same classpath without interacting negatively.
   ....

   (Libraries with a major version of 0 or 1 can skip this, and only start with major version 2 and above.)

2. Include the library name as part the group ID in the Maven coordinates.

   Even for projects that have only a single artifact, including the project name in the group ID allows future updates that may introduce additional artifacts to not pollute the root namespace. In projects that have multiple artifacts from inception, it provides a means of grouping them together on artifact hosts like Maven central. ....

3. Rename the group ID in the Maven coordinates to include the version number.

   Individual group IDs prevent dependency resolution semantics to upgrade older versions to newer, incompatible ones. Each major version is resolved independently allowing transitive dependencies to be upgraded compatibly.
   ....

   (Libraries with a major version of 0 or 1 can skip this, and only start with major version 2 and above.)

In the tweet thread Jake cites RxJava's two GitHub issues Version 2.x Maven Central Identification ReactiveX/RxJava#3170 and 2.0 Package Name ReactiveX/RxJava#3173, both opened by Ben Christensen (@benjchristensen).