Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

'Ancillary Justice' is written in a first-person narrative as the AI of thousands of years old starship Justice of Toren of The Radchaai Empire. Another interesting part is since the Radchaai language is genderless, the narrator constantly describes everyone as "she," but later you might discover that some character might be he. There are other small details here and there that narrator might say, but you start to question it as the story develops. In other words, Ann Leckie has done a stylish job of show-and-not-tell about the world that she's built.

For AdoptOpenJDK JDK 8:

docker pull eed3si9n/sbt:jdk8-alpine
docker run -it --mount src="$(pwd)",target=/opt/workspace,type=bind eed3si9n/sbt:jdk8-alpine

For AdoptOpenJDK JDK 11:

docker pull eed3si9n/sbt:jdk11-alpine
docker run -it --mount src="$(pwd)",target=/opt/workspace,type=bind eed3si9n/sbt:jdk11-alpine

Over the holiday break I've implemented left TOC for Pamflet, and released it as Pamflet 0.8.0.

As of Scala 2.13.0-M5, it's planned that scala.Seq will change from scala.collection.Seq to scala.collection.immutable.Seq. Scala 2.13 collections rework explains a bit about why it's been non-immutable historically. Between the lines, I think it's saying that we should celebrate that scala.Seq will now be immutable out of the box.

Defaulting to immutable sequence would be good for apps and fresh code. The situation is a bit more complicated for library authors.

• If you have a cross-built library, and
• if your users are using your library from multiple Scala versions
• and your users are using Array(...)

this change to immutable Seq could be a breaking change to your API.

Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/user/1235450353/playlist/1cOJUEKtQfCKAovwSZhdyh...
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLSUh6oJ5ZotVgnwc5xG-mE2uiunHANOyY

3 h 28 min

track list

• Nobody But You - George FitzGerald, Hudson Scott
• Nothing To Lose - Giorgia Angiuli
• Bellyache (Marian Hill Remix) - Billie Eilish, Marian Hill
• Technicolour - Mansionair
• Come Home - BAYNK, Shallou
• asleep (feat. MOONZz) - pluko, MOONZz

This post was coauthored by Eugene Yokota and Yifan Xing.

We need to change the culture around tech conferences to improve the inclusion of women (and people from other backgrounds too!). For that, there needs to be clear signaling and communication about two basic issues:

1. No, it's not ok to hit on women at a conference.
2. Assume technical competence, and treat women as professional peers.

These points should be communicated over and over at each conference before the keynote takes place, and before socializing hours.

Red Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Red Mars is a science fiction classic written in 1992. This book is everything I wanted and more, starting with first hundred astronauts and cosmonauts migrating to Mars to build the infrastructure such that more people can migrate. By the middle of the book, thousands of people migrate to Mars. The book explores various dimensions the epic project, not just technological challenges, but psychological effects, personality differences, and political interests by superpowers. The geography of Mars is written in vivid, majestic details.

I've implemented "super shell" feature for sbt over the weekend. The idea is to take over the bottom n lines of the termnial, and display the current tasks in progress.

Compile, or compile not. There's no warning. Two of my favorite Scala compiler flags lately are "-Xlint" and "-Xfatal-warnings".
Here is an example setting that can be used with subprojects:

ThisBuild / organization := "com.example"
ThisBuild / version      := "0.1.0-SNAPSHOT"
ThisBuild / scalaVersion := "2.12.6"
 
lazy val commonSettings = List(
  scalacOptions ++= Seq(
    "-encoding", "utf8",
    "-deprecation",
    "-unchecked",
    "-Xlint",
    "-feature",
    "-language:existentials",