alvin alexander
Nodes for the term “2021”
Always trust pure functions, they cannot lie
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Scala 3: Generic type parameters and variance explained (type system)
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A ZIO cheatsheet
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Scala Cookbook, a best-selling new release (OOP and FP)
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On Solitaire Chess, and making functional programming easier
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Scala: Where are Coursier files stored on macOS?
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A Unix/Linux shell script to make a quick backup of a directory
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Scala Cookbook: #1 new release in OOP and FP
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Scala Cookbook: A great geek gift idea
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Reading a CSV File Into a Spark RDD (Scala Cookbook recipe)
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An Apache Spark word count example | Scala Cookbook
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Reading a File Into a Spark RDD (Scala Cookbook recipe)
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Getting Started with Apache Spark (Scala Cookbook recipe)
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Almost Everything I Know About Writing
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Home sleep study: example, results, information
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Automated GUI Testing (AGT) software, version 0.1.0
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November 5th and “V for Vendetta”
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An Automated GUI Testing example (Nov. 2, 2021)
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A quote from a fearless rookie
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Scala 3 ‘while’ loop syntax and examples
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Testing web applications with Selenium, Scala 3, and ScalaTest
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Thinking With Types, v0.2
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Laundry becomes much more interesting when ...
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Don’t cling to a mistake just because ...
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Erie/Longmont, Colorado sunset, October 22, 2021
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Scala 3: How to create and run a Scala script
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Scala build.sbt GraalVM native-image command line options
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The Cooler of Love, Longmont, Colorado
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Look mummy, there’s an aeroplane up in the sky
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Taking a statin suppressed my MCAS symptoms (for the worse)
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Hard work always beats talent if ...
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Scala 3 Cookbook, alternate cover design
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Moon > Mountains > Boulder, Colorado
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First Colorado snowfall, September 20, 2021
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Speak to people in a way that ...
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A story about attachment, from Ram Dass
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Finding Akka Typed difficult to learn?
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Scala Cookbook unboxing experience (2021 best-selling new release)
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If I had a flower for every time I thought of you ...
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The Cooler of Love, Longmont, Colorado
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With his unconditional love, he could change people
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Never make someone a priority ... (Maya Angelou quote)
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Scala 3: Multiple packages in one file (syntax, examples)
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The spirit of a boy, or the wisdom of a man
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The farthest north I’ve ever been
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Another note about meditation and nighttime hallucinations
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Tequila sunset, Longmont, Colorado
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Longmont, Colorado wildfire smoke sunset, August 10, 2021
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Sun setting behind wildfire smoke, August 7, 2021
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My Scala 3 SimpleTest source code (mini testing framework)
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Functional Programming, Simplified: An FP best-seller
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“I am a survivor”
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Longmont, Colorado sunset, July 18, 2021
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A rain cloud in Longmont, Colorado, on July 15, 2021
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How to learn Scala cheaply and freely
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Sunset, July 14, 2021
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How to learn Scala 3: Resources
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You are not your thoughts (a note on the Shinzen Young hear/rest meditation technique)
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Goodnight, Sun (Longmont, CO, July 9, 2021)
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Stopping breathing during meditation
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A side effect of meditation: Ongoing dreams
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Installing Wiki.js on Ubuntu 20.04, with Postgresql
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How to make a Postgresql database backup with pg_dump and a password
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Rural Colorado, June, 27, 2021
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A Scala.js/Slinky “Hello, world” tutorial
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Akka Typed: Finding Actors with the Receptionist
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Mark Lewis on the Play Framework
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Mast cell disease and the Covid vaccine (my experience)
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In enlightenment, death has no relevance to one’s state of being
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sbt error: NoClassDefFoundError: org/fusesource/jansi/AnsiOutputStream
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Boulderstrong: King Soopers in Louisville, Colorado
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I got vaccinated (Boulder, Colorado)
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An Alaskan day in Colorado
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Phrases to use instead of “foo bar baz”
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March, 2021 snowstorm (Longmont, Colorado)
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Cato, a free CRUD generator for PHP, Java, Scala, and more
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Code as a Creative Medium (book)
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Cartoonized, bearded me
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Me, with a mustache, black and white
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Wyoming big booty hotel
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The last chapter of the Scala Cookbook, 2nd Edition is now done
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Is the Scala Cookbook worth the price? (A brief note)
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Two loving notes from my grandfather to his wife (a dream)
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Baseball begins now (Jake Arrieta back with the Cubs)
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How to use the Scala 3 nightly build as your REPL
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Two notes from meditating this morning (Feb.11, 2021)
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Breathe lyrics, by Faith Hill
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Trevor Bauer changeup grip (Dodgers)
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Think of the universe as a vast electrical sea in which you are immersed
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The Flying Squirrel Bakery Cafe, and Bernie
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Even for the wink of an eye or a flash of lightning, nothing lasts
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Shinzen Young’s mindfulness meditation technique for noting thoughts
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How (and why) Peter Garbiel left Genesis and went out on his own
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Make today the most important day of the year
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Keep Me in Your Heart for a While, by Warren Zevon
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Looking into writing a Scala 3 testing framework
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The Scala 3 scalac -source 3.1 option
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A story about editing Functional Programming, Simplified
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The Cult of Personality, by Living Colour
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Scala 3 `@main` will have more functionality
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