Greg Dorrell

Oblivious to current events. 'Founder' of javadoc.io,

[Greg Dorrell @Grogs]

@GergelyOrosz It's a shiny new technology. Engineers like shiny new technologies. Just look at NoSQL or micro services. Being told to use shiny new technologies in ways that don't make sense... Not so enjoyable, nor effective (also look at micro services? 😅).

[Rock the JVM @rockthejvm]

Write the code that you would deploy on a Friday afternoon.

[Greg Dorrell @Grogs]

@lofidewanto @rockthejvm @brunoborges @elonmusk I doubt it. 😂 Much more likely it's deliberate, as with message length.

[Mariot Chauvin @mchv]

New to #Scala? While not attend @scala_base a ✨free✨conf on 1⃣4⃣th of May crafted for developers at the early stages of their scala journey! Talks from @DanielaSfregola, @noelmarkham, @frankie_hammond, @marji_sound,@AsjadSB, Daniel Oakey, & Emily Misoni!

[[email protected] @mpilquist]

Excited to share that I’m working on the second edition of Functional Programming in Scala.

[Greg Dorrell @Grogs]

@co0lsky @martinfowler @testobsessed You measure productivity and quality. The idea is momentum is better than urgency at boosting those metrics.

That said, be cautious with metrics. Quality is subjective and hard to measure. Productivity metrics can be gamed (you can "increase" velocity by making stories smaller)

[Igal Tabachnik @hmemcpy]

Very good news about Skillsmatter! https://t.co/b2yUihrP8A

[Greg Dorrell @Grogs]

@jdegoes Absolutely! A massive motivation for Scala is to be comfortable changing your code.

[Voytek Pituła 💙/💛/🖤 @Krever01]

Then a huge one for @runarorama and his "Constraints Liberate, Liberties Constrain" which is the most influential talk I ever watched. I keep finding myself referencing it almost every week and it hugely affected my thinking about software design. #ScalaThankYou

[Greg Dorrell @Grogs]

@a_j_hayward @Wunderlist https://t.co/az7tFQz8ua

[Greg Dorrell @Grogs]

@lode Oops. Thank you! I'll fix that! 🤐

[Gabriele Petronella 🦋 gabro27.bsky.social @gabro27]

In case someone is wondering about the timing, the PR was stuck for a few days due to an issue with our CI. Once we fixed the CI, the bot rebased the PR (of course)

[Shadaj Laddad @ShadajL]

Cool to see that people are looking to hire Slinky developers specifically now! https://t.co/lrJ9NI64k6 #scala #scalajs #react

[Kailuo (Kai) Wang @kailuowang]

Cats 2.0.0 is released. The major version is bumped mainly because we broke binary compatibility on cats-laws (together with alleycats and cats-testkit), but the core modules: cats-cores and cats-kernels remain binary compatible with Cats 1.x.

Kudos to all contributors!

[Greg Dorrell @Grogs]

@AlanJay1 I agree that's a valid concern. Thank you for the thread Alan! 🙂

[School of FP @schooloffp]

Effect Types: What? Why? Which one? https://t.co/qJ6LZBKLLZ by @Grogs

[Martin Fowler @martinfowler]

post: We should justify efforts to improve internal quality of software based on its ability to reduce costs of future enhancements. It's a counter-intuitive view, but one that reflects our reality
https://t.co/gFDNbIxwh4

[Greg Dorrell @Grogs]

@DrEugeniaCheng I didn't consider that women would experience it more. I don't want that to be the case, but I can believe it. ���

[Greg Dorrell @Grogs]

Thankfully "show how clever you are" questions seem to be way less common than I thought before I started speaking. Plus I think the audience can tell the difference.

[Dr Eugenia Cheng --no advice please-- @DrEugeniaCheng]

I have taken to starting Q&A sessions by saying that there are two types of questions: the ones where you want to understand something and the ones where you want to show how clever you are, and I will take all the first type and none of the second type.

[Greg Dorrell @Grogs]

@DrEugeniaCheng I'm sorry it came across that way. Your tweet resonated with me. But I don't want people to be put off from speaking because of potential awkward/aggressive questions as it's happened less than I feared.