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  • 25th January 2017
  • 14th November 2016

Learning Shapeless

Shapeless is a type class and dependent type based generic programming library for Scala. It had its origins in several talks by Miles Sabin, and he has been the main contributor to the project. …

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  • 22nd August 2016

Free Monads and Stockfighter

StockFighter is a game by Patrick McKenzie (Hi Patrick!) and others that makes you compete in a virtual Stock Exchange to accomplish certain objectives. They use it as a recruitment tool (kind of, read their website) but it’s a very entertaining game, even if you are not looking for a new job. …

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  • 30th May 2016

Free Monads using FreeK

My previous post on Free Monad implemented a few DSL using Free Monads. The same day I published it I discovered FreeK by Pascal Voitot. How does FreeK help you when building a Free Monad? …

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  • 28th May 2016

On Free Monads

The concept of Free Monad is becoming popular, or at least I’ve seen plenty of mentions about it in the Scala Functional Programming community as of late. Why is it relevant? …

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