Wrote sbt 1.0.0 is now available on Tech Hub blog.

GitHub Pages is a convenient place to host OSS project docs.
This post explains how to use Travis CI to deploy your docs automatically on a pull request merge.

1. Generate a fresh RSA key in some directory

Make a directory outside of your project first.
Pick a key name deploy_yourproject_rsa, so you can distinguish it from other keys.

$ mkdir keys
$ cd keys
$ ssh-keygen -t rsa -b 4096 -C "yours@example.com"
Generating public/private rsa key pair.
Enter file in which to save the key (/Users/xxx/.ssh/id_rsa): deploy_website_rsa

In the last post that I wrote about Atreus build, I noted that there's an issue of keyboard positioning:

Even if I can overcome the layout and memorize the various symbol locations, there's the issue of the placement. If I place the keyboard in between me and the laptop the screen becomes too far.

I solved this issue by making a tray for Atreus that I can position it on top of the MacBook Pro keyboard.

Last night I finished making my Atreus keyboard from a DYI kit that I got a while back.
Here are some of the details:

• I chose Matias Quiet Click switch option (gray slider). There's no clicking.
• The modifiers use Matias Quiet Linear switches (red slider).
• There are 42 keys in split ortholinear layout.
• Mahogany ply case.

The materials

Gigahorse 0.3.0 is now released. See documentation on what it is.

OkHttp support

0.3.0 adds Square OkHttp support. Gigahorse-OkHttp is availble for Scala 2.10, 2.11, and 2.12.

According to the JavaDoc you actually don't have to close the OkHttpClient instance.

scala> import gigahorse._, support.okhttp.Gigahorse
import gigahorse._
import support.okhttp.Gigahorse
 
scala> import scala.concurrent._, duration._
import scala.concurrent._
import duration._

Wrote sbt 1.0 roadmap and beta-1 on Tech Hub blog.

I've been asked by a few people on downloading JARs, and then running them from an sbt plugin.
Most recently, Shane Delmore (@shanedelmore) asked me about this at nescala in Brooklyn.

During an unconference session I hacked together a demo, and I continued some more after I came home.

sbt-sidedish

Wrote herding cats day 16.

Here are a few questions I've been thinking about:

• How should I express data or API?
• How should the data be represented in Java or Scala?
• How do I convert the data into wire formats such as JSON?
• How do I evolve the data without breaking binary compatibility?

limitation of case class

The sealed trait and case class is the idiomatic way to represent datatypes in Scala, but it's impossible to add fields in binary compatible way. Take for example a simple case class Greeting, and see how it would expand into a class and a companion object:

I gave a talk at ScalaSphere with Dale Wijnand (@dwijnand). The state of sbt 0.13, sbt server, and sbt 1.0 (ScalaSphere ver):