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The map and problem described here were part of my presentation Mapping as a tool for thought, and mentioned in my interview with John Grant and Ben Mosior (to appear sometime soon in the Wardley Maps community youtube channel).

Software engineering, history, planning, data engineering.

_This week is a bit light on technical content because I was attending Scala Days 2019 in Lausanne and I had enough with the talks. _ Software engineering, psychology, history.

Wardley mapping, data engineering and big data, maths.

Data engineering, adtech, ZIO, Rust, writing, some miscellaneous stuff.

Data engineering, adtech, functional programing, formal specification.

If you have have known me for any length of time you’ll know I write mostly Python and Scala lately (Rust is getting into the mix slowly).

Functional programming, adtech, history.

Big data and data engineering, metallurgy, Rust (not the metallurgy-related rust).

As you may know, I’m a heavy emacs user, and a frequent Scala developer.

Software engineering, Spark, history, python.

Software engineering, psychology, generative art.

You know how you slip once on a habit and everything goes crazy?

This edition has Software engineering, formal methods, fraud, Scala.

Formal methods, Scala, productivity.

A couple of days ago I installed Hive from Homebrew on my Mac.

Software engineering, adtech, psychology, python.

Software/data engineering, psychology, formal systems.

Sorry for the delay, Sunday was my birthday (also, Elmo’s, and The Day The Music Died as well) and I spent the day without access to a computer.

Software/data engineering, history, formal systems.

Software/data engineering, languages, writing.

If you know me, you’ll know I have a quite extensive reading list.

The year has ended, what has been going on?

This is how I handle the dreaded GTD (Getting Things Done) weekly review when using Things 3.

This week I have been working a lot with a relatively large dataset on a Spark shell.

Even though I have been a long time user of oh-my-zsh on zsh (moved from plain bash to zsh like 10 years ago), I have been minimal on my use of its theme capabilities.

A few days go I played a bit with a naive implementation of Bloom filters in Python.

I ran into this problem with sbt dependency resolution around 7 weeks ago.

Down into some net rabbit hole, I stumbled upon a review of Work Clean.

I had always wanted to play with Processing (after leafing through The Processing Handbook and Visualizing Data some years ago).

A few months ago I stumbled into the problem of Akka logging, specifically ClassNotFoundException when using akka.event.slf4j.Slf4jLoggingFilter, just by following the details of the Logging - SL4J section of Akka documentation.

Almost two months ago (time sure flies) I attended for the second time the conference Scala eXchange, one of the largest Scala conferences in the world, and which happens to be 1 tube stop from the office you can find me from time to time in London.

I am trying to make these posts a tradition (even if a few days late).

It would probably be an understatement to say I’m not a gamer.

I’m not sure how useful this Docker “trick” is, since it happens in a very niche situation.

A few weeks ago I needed to parse configuration files in Scala for a Spark project and decided to use PureConfig.

Some of the links are affiliate links to Amazon.

I have been looking for the perfect, really portable Bluetooth keyboard for several years.

This has been the first time I could attend the Apache Kafka meetup in London.

At Affectv we use a wide range of editors: Sublime, Atom, Emacs, Pycharm, IntelliJ… Actually only two people use the same editor!

A couple of days ago I attended (first time I managed in almost 6 months) the London chapter of the Emacs Church (also known as the local meetup for emacs lovers).

Started a long time ago.

Back in the days of yore, when I was switching between my Windows machine and a Linux machine, I remember having SyncTeX active in my Windows machine.

Thermometers are already hitting 29°C with temperature feelings around 32 or 33.

I have ve always loved maps.

A few weeks ago I started trying a pre-beta release of Dyalog APL (now available as “full beta”) for Mac.

The links to Amazon and The Book Depository are affiliate links.

Is this line noise?

A few months ago (woah, so long already) I had an impulse buy: I purchased a circular slide rule from Etsy.

A few days ago I found myself with a problem.