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Backpacking with the Peak Design Tripod

I bought the Peak Design Travel Tripod, carbon version, several years ago. It has been a great travel companion due to its light weight…

5 min readSep 6, 2023

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Nokhu Crags South of Cameron Pass, Colorado © 2023, Dean Wampler

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Scala 3: What Is “Direct Style”?

Scala uses monads extensively for many operations with non-trivial effects, such as those involving asynchronous computation, including…

7 min readJun 4, 2023

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Scala 3: What Is “Direct Style”?

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Scala 3: Even Fewer Braces

One of the most significant, if controversial features in Scala 3 is optional braces, where significant indentation can be used instead of…

5 min readNov 20, 2022

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Scala 3: Even Fewer Braces

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Scala 3: “Erased” Definitions

Martin Odersky and the EPFL Scala Center continue experimenting with potential new features in Scala 3. Let’s explore one of them, erased…

6 min readMar 26, 2022

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Safer Exceptions in Scala 3

I mentioned in What’s Changed Since Scala 3.0.0 that Scala 3.1 introduced an experimental feature for safer exceptions. Let’s explore it in…

7 min readJan 16, 2022

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Safer Exceptions in Scala 3

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The Value of Parametric Polymorphism

I’m giving a talk at Scale by the Bay, October 28th, on Lessons Learned from 15 Years of Scala in the Wild.

7 min readOct 10, 2021

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The Value of Parametric Polymorphism

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Scala 3: What’s Changed Since Scala 3.0.0

The Scala team continues to refine Scala 3, fixing bugs, refining existing features, and introducing some experimental features for Scala…

5 min readSep 4, 2021

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Scala 3: What’s Changed Since Scala 3.0.0

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Move Shoot Move for Astrophotography

During my recent trip to the Ruby Mountains in Nevada, I tried out the inexpensive and compact Move Shoot Move star tracker. This isn’t a…

6 min readAug 15, 2021

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Move Shoot Move for Astrophotography

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Camera Control for the Sony A7RIV Using the Syrp Genie Devices

I spent a week in the Ruby Mountains of Nevada last month. I’ve posted my best pictures to Flickr.

3 min readAug 7, 2021

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Camera Control for the Sony A7RIV Using the Syrp Genie Devices

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Scala 3: Macros

Update May 22, 2022: Michel Charpentier correctly pointed out that the arguments don’t need to be by-name if they are inlined. This makes…

3 min readJul 6, 2021

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Dean Wampler

Dean Wampler

The person who is wrong on the Internet. ML/AI and FP enthusiast. Engineering Director, watsonx.ai at IBM Research. Speaker, author, pretend photographer.

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