Life Organization
Being exposed to unbiased, relevant, high-quality news can open the door to professional opportunities, learning, quality personal time. How do we consume news and other content in this day and age? It is mainly via personalized feeds of social networks and notifications they send us. There are a few problems
Data Science
In this article, I'll go through a bunch of basic techniques to gain insight of what is really going on in a machine learning model. Low-enough entry barrier and wide range of techniques should give a reader a nice toolset to use in their data science practice.
Life Organization
For more than 5 years, I'm relying on this tool for managing my finances and foreseeing the impact of my financial decisions far into the future.
Game Development
This is the third article in a series introducing the Vulkan graphics API. We'll build upon the previous two articles and draw our first triangle on the screen.
Game Development
This is the second article in the series covering the Vulkan graphics API, its organisation and how to get started with it. We'll cover the concept of a graphics pipeline and how one can leverage features of Scala to effectively set it up.
Scala
Vulkan is a modern API to access graphics cards and use them for rendering and other purposes. This is the first article in a series that covers how Vulkan API is organised an how one can get started with it. We'll use Scala as an example target language.
Scala
A strong side of Scala is its DSL capability. DSLs, or domain-specific languages, are programming languages designed for convenient expression of operations in a certain domain. An example of such a DSL is the one I designed for Simple Rockets 2 – SR2 Compiler. That DSL can be used to program
Scala
If you’re an aerospace hobbyist, there’s a good chance that you’ll have a ton of fun with Simple Rockets 2. It’s a game where you build and fly rockets. Similarly to Kerbal Space Program, it allows you to pick up basic rocket science casually while playing
Scala
In this article, I'm sharing my process of learning how to fix issues in complex codebases, such as the one of the Scala 3 compiler (otherwise known as Dotty).
Scala
In this article, I'd like to describe how my processes evolved and what breakthrough moments I had while fixing bugs in Dotty. Tooling Having the right tools while working on a problem is paramount. Try writing your next project in Notepad. No syntax highlighting, no code completion, no
Scala
When programming in a purely functional style, we aim to reify side effects into data structures called effect types. An effect type you are using should be the same throughout the entire application so that different parts of the application are composable. When having multiple side effects and a single
Life Organization
Our mind continuously builds models for the future. This way, you know exactly what you will be doing tomorrow morning. And you know whether you have enough money to make it to the end of the month. If you don't, you know it, and you start to feel
Life Organization
In this article, I'd like to describe an approach in problem-solving I started to practice about a year ago. An approach I call Strategic problem-solving. Position, Technology, System To describe strategic problem-solving, we first need to introduce three terms. Position - a capability to do something. In the
Scala
Motivation There are three things Scala implicits mechanism is good for: * Conversion from one type to another * Method injection * Dependency injection Conversion from one type to another may be needed when a variable of one type is used where another type is expected. For example, a java.lang.Integer is
Scala
Hello, It is my pleasure to invite you to a free webinar of mine where I am going to introduce type classes and some basic usage of them in purely functional libraries. The webinar will take place on Sunday, April 2nd, 3 PM UTC. The content covered will include: * An
Scala
Recursion is the GOTO of functional programming - Erik Meijer^1 Recursive data structures In our daily programming life, we encounter recursive data structures on a regular basis. The best-known examples include linked lists and trees. Often working with such data structures we have a need to evaluate (collapse) them