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Philip Schwarz @philip-schwarz.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

🚀 just uploaded (link in reply): The Bowling Game - From Imperative to Functional Programming - Part 3 #Scala #Haskell #Clojure

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Philip Schwarz @philip-schwarz.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

🚀 just uploaded (link in reply): The Bowling Game - From Imperative to Functional Programming - Part 2 #Scala #Haskell #Clojure

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Philip Schwarz @philip-schwarz.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

🏛️ belatedly uploaded (oldie but goodie - link in reply): Abstracting over Execution with Higher Kinded Types, and how to remain Purely Functional #Scala

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Philip Schwarz @philip-schwarz.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

🚀 just uploaded (link in reply): The Bowling Game - From Imperative to Functional Programming - Part 1 #Scala #Haskell #Java

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Philip Schwarz @philip-schwarz.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

Watching Kevlin Henney’s ( @kevlin.bsky.social ) The Human in the Loop (link in reply)

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Philip Schwarz @philip-schwarz.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

🚀 just uploaded (link in reply): Imperative Bowling Kata - 20 Years On - Delegating Menial Tasks to Github Copilot Chat - using Scala in IntelliJ IDEA #scala #TDD #refactoring #github_copilot #code_kata @intellijidea.com @scala.intellijidea.com @scala-lang.org

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Philip Schwarz @philip-schwarz.bsky.social · 15/02/2026

🚀 just uploaded (link in reply): Imperative Bowling Kata - 20 Years On - Delegating Menial Tasks to AI Coding Tool 'Claude Code'

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Philip Schwarz @philip-schwarz.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

🚀 just uploaded: updated version of AI Concepts - MCP Neurons - now includes Haskell code in addition to Scala - link in reply - hat tip to @anilananth for his great book #scala #haskell

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Philip Schwarz @philip-schwarz.bsky.social · 02/01/2026

🚀 just uploaded: AI Concepts - MCP Neurons - link in reply - hat tip to @anilananth.bsky.social for his great book

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Philip Schwarz @philip-schwarz.bsky.social · 14/12/2025

🚀 just uploaded (link in reply): Part 2 of Combinatorial Interview Problems with Backtracking Solutions - From Imperative ProceduralProgramming to Declarative Functional Programming #scala #haskell #python

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Scala Times @scalatimes.com · 22/11/2025

Scala Times Issue #604 - scalatimes.com/f99e9094b8

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Philip Schwarz @philip-schwarz.bsky.social · 16/11/2025

🚀 just uploaded (link in reply): Combinatorial Interview Problems with Backtracking Solutions - From Imperative ProceduralProgramming to Declarative Functional Programming #scala #haskell #python

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Philip Schwarz @philip-schwarz.bsky.social · 14/09/2025

🚀 just uploaded (link in reply): Test Doubles - Terminology, Definitions and Illustrations - with Examples #test_double, #test_stub, #test_spy, #mock_object, #fake_object, #dummy_object #state_verification #behaviour_verification #Scala

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Philip Schwarz @philip-schwarz.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

🚀 just uploaded (link in reply): ApplicativeError functions handling and recovering from errors: A mnemonic to recall their signatures from their names - With a simple example of function usage for monadic effects Try, Either, Future, IO, and applicative effect ValidatedNel. #scala

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Philip Schwarz @philip-schwarz.bsky.social · 29/06/2025

added to fpilluminated.org some new functionality to help you find the decks you may be interested in

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Philip Schwarz @philip-schwarz.bsky.social · 15/06/2025

🚀 just uploaded (link in reply): "Folding Cheat Sheet #9 List Unfolding - unfold as the Computational Dual of fold, and how unfold relates to iterate" #scala #haskell #folding #unfolding #iterate #functional_programming

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Philip Schwarz @philip-schwarz.bsky.social · 31/05/2025

🚀 just uploaded (link in reply): "List Unfolding - unfold as the Computational Dual of fold, and how unfold relates to iterate" #folding #unfolding #fold #unfold #foldL #foldL_prime #unfoldL #unfoldL_prime #unfoldr #iterate #anamorphism #catamorphism #functional_programming #scala #haskell

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Philip Schwarz @philip-schwarz.bsky.social · 18/05/2025

🚀 just uploaded (links in reply): Drawing Heighway’s Dragon - Part 4 - Interactive and Animated Dragon Creation #scala #functional_programming #computer_graphics

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Philip Schwarz @philip-schwarz.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

🚀 just uploaded: The Nature of Complexity in John Ousterhout’s Philosophy of Software Design fpilluminated.org/deck/261

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Philip Schwarz @philip-schwarz.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

🚀 just uploaded (link in reply): Drawing Heighway’s Dragon - Part 3 - Simplification Through Separation of Concerns - Rotation Without Matrix Multiplication #scala #functional_programming #computer_graphics

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noelwelsh.bsky.social @noelwelsh.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

Finished the chapter on tagless final in "Functional Programming Strategies" and it's available to read online: scalawithcats.com This includes the new encoding I talked about at @scalar-conf.com Sign up to the mailing list on the same site if you want to hear about updates.

scalawithcats.com

Functional Programming Strategies in Scala with Cats

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Philip Schwarz @philip-schwarz.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

🚀 The Open-Closed Principle - Part 2 - The Contemporary Version - An Introduction - oldie but goodie - uploaded to fpilluminated - fpilluminated.org/deck/259 #OOP #open_closed_principle #dependency_inversion_principle #liskov_substitution_principle #implementation_inheritance #interface_inheritance

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Philip Schwarz @philip-schwarz.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

🚀 The Open-Closed Principle - Part 1 - The Original Version - oldie but goodie - uploaded to fpilluminated fpilluminated.org/deck/258 #OOP #OCP

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Philip Schwarz @philip-schwarz.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

🚀 just uploaded: Drawing Heighway’s Dragon - Part 2 - Recursive Function Simplification - From 2^n Recursive Invocations To n Tail-Recursive Invocations Exploiting Self-Similarity fpilluminated.org/deck/257 #scala #functional_programming #computer_graphics

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Matej Cerny @matejcerny.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

"Scala can be incredibly productive… if we stop using abstractions that offer no value!" @noelwelsh.bsky.social Really looking forward to watching this talk when it becomes generally available. #scala noelwelsh.com/talks/tagless-final-f…

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Philip Schwarz @philip-schwarz.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

🚀 just uploaded to fpilluminated.org! Drawing Heighway’s Dragon - Recursive Function Rewrite - From Imperative Style in Pascal 64 To Functional Style in Scala 3 #scala #functional_programming Direct link: fpilluminated.org/deck/256

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Debasish (দেবাশিস্) Ghosh 🇮🇳 @debasishg.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

Slides of my presentation "Effects - algebraically yours" at @fnconf.bsky.social Functional Conf 2025 are now available online It's based on Scala3 and examples are mostly from ZIO and Kyo with some cats-effect as well. Here's the abstract of the talk .. link: www.slideshare.net/slideshow/ef...

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Philip Schwarz @philip-schwarz.bsky.social · 27/12/2024

🚀 just uploaded to fpilluminated.org Fibonacci Function Gallery - Part 2 - infinite streams Direct link: fpilluminated.org/deck/253 #scala #haskell #clojure #scheme

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Philip Schwarz @philip-schwarz.bsky.social · 22/12/2024

FYI fpilluminated.com has moved to fpilluminated.org

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Debasish (দেবাশিস্) Ghosh 🇮🇳 @debasishg.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

I’m excited to be speaking at Functional Conf 2025 .. Don’t miss my talk on "Effects, Algebraically yours" ... Looking forward to connecting with you all! Register now with discount code debasish-ghosh-10di$c-functional for 10% off: confengine.com/conferences/... #FunctionalProgramming #FnConf

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Philip Schwarz @philip-schwarz.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

🚀 just uploaded to fpilluminated.com Fibonacci Function Gallery (37 slides) Direct link: fpilluminated.com/deck/252 #fibonacci_sequence #fibonacci_numbers #linear_complexity #exponential_complexity #recursion #tail_recursion #trampolining #scala #haskell #clojure

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Chris Oldwood @chrisoldwood.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

I’m pretty sure Santa is a huge Gang of Four fanboy given how often he uses the Visitor pattern… #ProgrammerPunvent

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Debasish (দেবাশিস্) Ghosh 🇮🇳 @debasishg.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

Talk on Capabilities for Control Effects by Martin Odersky at ICFP '24, where he discusses the use of capabilities to model effects, how we can control the lifetime of capabilities, and how that provides a simple and expressive foundation to compose control effects flexibly youtu.be/qj4e5NgndnU?...

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Philip Schwarz @philip-schwarz.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

🚀 just uploaded to fpilluminated.com The Debt Metaphor - Ward Cunningham in his 2009 YouTube video (11 slides) Direct link: fpilluminated.com/deck/248 #debt_metaphor #refactoring #semantic_diffusion #ward_cunningham

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Susan Potter @susanpotter.net · 23/11/2024

I did start one below, but I only found a few names. No tpolecat? (Yes, I looked under his real name.) I also have no idea how to take myself off the starter pack. go.bsky.app/FEqPgxQ

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Philip Schwarz @philip-schwarz.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

current status: belatedly acquired a copy of "Managing Technical Debt" - since the term technical debt is not immune from semantic diffusion (martinfowler.com/bliki/Semant...), I am reassured by the following excerpt

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Kent Beck @kentbeck.com · 16/11/2024

In the Desert, dev & ops need to be antagonistic organizations. That equilibrium of distrust keeps the software working somewhat. In the Forest, ops helps devs take full responsibility for their decisions. Sounds impossible from the Desert. It isn't.

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