Voytek Pitula

It's the universe giving you signs.

Some notes from a recent Scala 3 migration I did.

I think much more than this. My experience is that for every developer interested in conferences/events/social media/whatever, there is ~5 developers who just work.

Imho the decent approximation would be number of linkedin profiles with scala skill. But I don't know if thats available anywhere.

YouTube video by Business4s Workflows4s DevLog #4: Collecting instances and instances internals

New Workflows4s DevLog is out!
youtu.be/xK1vmQhKrAM

Balancing shortcuts and excellence and tradeoffs in general is probably the biggest reason why companies need senior engineers.
Writing good code is easier than knowing when to do it.

Allow macro annotation to transform companion · Issue #19676 · scala/scala3 With the current definition of macro annotations, we can only modify the annotated definition. There exist use cases where we want to annotate a class and add/transform/check methods in the compani...

Actually, we have since 3.5, it seems. 🤔
github.com/scala/scala3...

`extends Newtype[String]` brings `neotype.Newtype`, which is obvious in hindsight. If we only had macro annotations...

That's interesting! I will decompile some stuff and check then. That's potentially big.

Hey @kitlangton.bsky.social does neotype require runtime dependency?
@baldram.github.io pointed me to it, and I see it doesn't allocate, but I'm curious if it requires any symbols at runtime at all.
I'm asking because if not I could safely use it in my libs without binary compatibility issues.

Business4s & GSoC 2025: 3 Exciting Projects and Not-So-Usual Approach This year, the Business4s community is proud to participate in Google Summer of Code 2025 under the Scala Center umbrella. We submitted…

I am excited, to say the least.
medium.com/business4s-b...

Which issue was blocking it?

🎉Workflows4s is finally out! A Scala library designed for simpler, type-safe, and lightweight workflows.
medium.com/business4s-b...

YouTube video by Business4s Workflows4s DevLog #3: Workflow Evolutions

The next episode of Workflows4s DevLog is out, enjoy!
youtu.be/KRg42PJW1sA

Workflows4s in one picture

Batched Books Reviews #2025.1 My reading slowed down a lot in the last 3 months, due to various reasons (OSS work, conferences, work), but hopefully it will only get…

I finally posted what should have been posted two months ago. Anyway, I promise to get back on track with my reading.

medium.com/vp-of-books/...

A Scala rewrite story you might actually like

medium.com/p/8513e20cd268

YouTube video by Business4s Workflows4s DevLog #1: Progress Tracking

Look at me, I'm a YouTuber now.
youtu.be/aDooTCNwU2g?...

My favourite game, of course. IntelliJ.

I think the problem is in my gaming setup/habits. I usually have very little time (30 min?) at the end of the day. This means I prefer simple games that also allow me to shut down a big chunk of my brain. ER doesn't seem to fall into that category 😅

This was supposed to be a joke, but it's 100% of my experience with Elden Ring (also on PS5)

A bit overdue but finally there. My feelings about Rust.
medium.com/@w.pitula/ru...

Scala Highlights from 2024

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Release v1.7.0 · scalalandio/chimney This big release bring some long-awaited features: transformations, which take more than 1 case class as input (well, not only case classes 😄 ) and improved Patchers which handle: recursive patchin...

Chimney 1.7.0 with:
- transformation from more than 1 value
- recursive Patchers
- and much more!

Easily one of top 3 Chimney releases (next to 0.8.0 - with Scala 3 support - and 1.0.0 - with stable API)

github.com/scalalandio/...

Yeah, something that serves a goal. But the goal doesn't matter

What's the most creative solution you have implemented in your career (or recently)?

(Shameless gathering of talk material)

Yup, that's how we hire in Poland, then you just sign b2b contract.

It's an indefinite b2b contract (in most locations), so it depends on the definition of "freelancer".

From the scala community on Reddit: [Hiring] 8 Scala positions at SwissBorg Explore this post and more from the scala community

Nothing to see here, definitely not a great opportunity for Scala devs.

www.reddit.com/r/scala/comm...