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7 hours agoScala's Growth Model - Building Inward, Starving Outward
Scala's ecosystem excels internally but struggles to attract new users due to structural and cultural barriers.
Every iOS app I've shipped over the last nine years started the same way: a Rails developer with a great web app, users who want it in the App Store, and weeks spent on Xcode, signing certificates, and Swift boilerplate that has nothing to do with the actual product.
Anthropic has launched Claude Sonnet 4.6, an update to the company's hybrid reasoning model that brings improvements in coding consistency and instruction following, Anthropic said. Introduced February 17, Claude Sonnet 4.6 is a full upgrade of the model's skills across coding, computer use, long-context reasoning, agent planning, design, and knowledge work, according to Anthropic. the model also features a 1M token context window in beta.
Which Algorithm Is This? If you step back, this maps almost perfectly to the Top K Frequent Elements problem.We usually solve it for integers in a list. Here, the "elements" are audience profiles age and body-type combinations. First, define what an audience profile looks like: case class Profile(age: Int, height: Int, weight: Int) What we want is a function like this:
If there's one universal experience with AI-powered code development tools, it's how they feel like magic until they don't. One moment, you're watching an AI agent slurp up your codebase and deliver a remarkably sharp analysis of its architecture and design choices. And the next, it's spamming the console with "CoreCoreCoreCore" until the scroll-back buffer fills up and you've run out of tokens.
One of my oldest open-source projects - Bob - has celebrated 15 a couple of months ago. Bob is a suite of implementations of the Scheme programming language in Python, including an interpreter, a compiler and a VM. Back then I was doing some hacking on CPython internals and was very curious about how CPython-like bytecode VMs work; Bob was an experiment to find out, by implementing one from scratch for R5RS Scheme.