Matthew Farwell

@matthewfarwell

Senior software developer, Nexthink SA. Project lead on Scalastyle. Co-author of sbt in action. Host on SE Radio podcast . Contributor to JUnit.

Lausanne, Switzerland
farwell.co.uk
Joined February 2008
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    Jun 17

    Who predicted Mexico would beat Germany? I’ll tell you who: Mr. Twinkle Toes the psychic cat did. Join in at .

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    Jun 9

    326: talks to and about the programming language

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    Jun 3

    Great 'SE-Radio Episode 323: Lin Clark on WebAssembly' with about

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    May 13

    It’s terrifying that both of these things are true at the same time in this world: • computers drive cars around • the state of the art test to check that you’re not a computer is whether you can successful identify stop signs in pictures

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    May 10

    Stupid joke time: - Do you know a good GDPR consultant? - Yes. - Can you give me his e-mail address? - No. /me curtsies

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    May 11
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    Great introduction to web assembly. Best show recently. 👍

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    May 10

    show 323: talks to about WebAssembly

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    May 5

    show 322: talks to about property-based testing .

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    Apr 30

    GitHub *finally* moved the + and - symbols from diffs to CSS pseudo-elements, making it possible to copy code directly from a diff without having to clean it up. That is long overdue and fantastic. ✨

    Copying code from a GitHub diff
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    Apr 27
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    Benefit of living in Switzerland? Don't know, but the flag is a big plus.

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    Apr 23

    Here's a Gist that demonstrates how to use ScalaCheck 1.14.0's support for deterministic testing:

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    Apr 23
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    Thanks for the link, . I interpret that as "use () when the return value might change between two calls without any other method call in between". Meaning `file.exists()` not `file.exists`, but `.size` is fine for mutable collections.

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    Apr 22

    Absolutely fantastic poster outlining cognitive biases. This should be compulsory to study before studying anything else. Or registering on Twitter. Or reading anything. Pls RT

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    Apr 22

    ScalaCheck 1.14.0 has been released! This includes support for deterministic testing, implemented by .

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    Apr 20

    It's official - Dotty will become Scala 3:

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    Apr 8

    Code comments

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    Mar 24

    the largest tirefires I have yet seen in my ~5-year career have all resulted from people going off and building things, then emerging with fully-formed projects that coworkers didn't want to shoot down because it was clear they'd already invested so much time

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    Mar 27

    The new British passports were printed in France, so obviously... (No idea who did the original, but chapeau...)

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    Mar 23

    Currently hacking mutable code not written by me & it's amazing to see how much the depth of your tree of possible cause of errors grows exponentially compared to immutable code... as a human being, it becomes quite fast impossible to reason about your code...

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    Mar 21

    Wrote about features I want in an IDE: simple setup, reliable squiggles, fast completions and cross-language navigation

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