Do you remember Stack Overflow? Apparently they still run the Developer Survey. I'll probably fill it out, just out of nostalgia 🤷 #stackoverflow https://stackoverflow.blog/2026/06/23/the-2026-developer-survey-is-now-open-for-human-developers-only

Sorry for being quiet lately but I'm enjoying some much-needed free time. 🏕️ Plus, the owner of these little shoes officially became a big brother! 🎉👶

What if you took Scala, kept the braces, dropped the object-oriented parts and added full type inference with baked-in effect systems? Flix is almost like Unison, but on the JVM. https://youtu.be/qMyl2kyDI0I

This is brilliant! 🌟 A kyo-compat opaque effect type that resolves to Cats Effect, ZIO, Kyo and even Future and Ox! Read how effect system compatibility is usually solved in Scala and how Sage went the other way around - by using Kyo as the building block. This is really an absolute genius Trojan horse! 😀 https://blog.pierre-ricadat.com/the-scala-library-authors-dilemma/

For a long time, Scala libraries were mostly just Java client wrappers, but that's finally changing. The shift towards pure Scala libraries is accelerating with AI and I really love this trend! ❤️ Sage is a perfect example - a from-scratch, completely native Redis/Valkey client for Scala 3. No Java baggage hidden underneath. Plus, it supports Ox, ZIO, Cats Effect, and Kyo! 👏 https://github.com/ghostdogpr/sage #scala

Scala.js 1.22 is here! 🎉 It's a pretty big update, as WASM is now officially stable ✅ and the plugin finally supports sbt 2! ✅ https://www.scala-js.org/news/2026/06/20/announcing-scalajs-1.22.0/

🚨 Sonatype Central introduced soft rate limits a few days ago, with the plan to enforce them on August 11, 2026. My humble namespace was flagged after one release! 🙄 I advise you to go through your Scaladocs! In the case of pgmq4s, which has 11 modules (6 of which are also published for Scala.js and Native), the biggest issue was a 1 MB logo packaged into every module. Scala 3 docs also pack a 2 MB Inkuire search engine script and database.

Pure Scala Native, zero JVM. S2D is a 2D graphics library built on top of OpenGL and SDL, the same framework behind games like World of Goo. 🎮 Here is a step-by-step guide to implementing Snake 🐍 with it: https://matiasfinochio.substack.com/p/s2d-development-series-snakeday-1

🧠 Scala 3 Quiz: What does `new:` do? Extra points if you link a page where this is documented 😂

sbt 2.0.0 has officially landed! 🎉🎉 Here are the biggest changes for the Scala ecosystem: ✅ Scala 3 constructs for build definitions ✅ Bazel-compatible caching system ✅ Faster startup times with the native-image sbtn client I've been using the RC version for some time and the upgrade is totally worth it - the speed improvements are incredible! ⚡ Many thanks to Eugene Yokota, Kenji Yoshida and everyone else who helped with the development! 🫶 👉 https://eed3si9n.com/sbt-2.0.0

And here is the table with all the plugins that have already been migrated: https://github.com/sbt/sbt/wiki/sbt-2.x-plugin-migration

A very cool, easy-to-use library that brings application-level encryption codecs to Skunk. Just replace your current codecs with these. Data in your app stays readable, but it's stored as cipher text in Postgres. 🦨🔒 https://github.com/ThatScalaGuy/skunk-crypt

⚠️ The latest release of doobie changes the groupId from org.tpolecat to org.typelevel! If Scalafix doesn't work for you, be sure to replace import doobie with import org.typelevel.doobie in your codebase. https://github.com/typelevel/doobie/releases/tag/v1.0.0-RC13