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Miles Sabin

Personal blog · milessabin.com/blog · on HN as milessabinprogramming

Miles Sabin's personal blog at milessabin.com covers programming. Since 2015, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 6 times. The last post was in 2017, but the archive is still widely read.

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2015–2020first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 2 in 2015

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Why HN links it

HN readers link Miles Sabin's blog for his Scala writing, including his Shapeless announcement and material on type classes and generic derivation. One commenter calls the linked article worth reading.

Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.

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milessabin · 55 karma · member since 2011

Scala consultancy and training. Brighton, UK http://www.milessabin.com/ [ my public key: https://keybase.io/milessabin; my proof: https://keybase.io/milessabin/sigs/Gjh-fgCoH5ClWD6uwrQH6p7dog4Of11kOSdSy8l8Ah8 ]

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What Hacker News says?

  1. Travis Brown has written up some great articles on advanced Scala topics and this one does not disappoint. Well done and worth the read. Some may find the Shapeless feature overview[1] a good read as well. And for people interested in history, I found Mr. Sabin's announcement of Shapeless[2] to be both interesting and valuable for its links related to higher-kinded programming topics. I also found "learning Scalaz"[…

    Comment linking /blog/2011/12/19/shapeless-preview/

    on “Type classes and generic derivation”
  2. Submitted Unboxed union types in Scala via the Curry-Howard isomorphism as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  3. Submitted Hacking on scalac – 0 to PR in an hour as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  4. Submitted Shapeless-2.3.3 released as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  5. Submitted Shapeless-2.3.0 released as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  6. Submitted Scala generic programming library shapeless 2.2.0 released as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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