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October 2026

Tue, 13 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Welcome to our first monthly digest. The idea is to share links that our community finds interesting or at least notable. Feedback is always really appreciated and if you have something to share, please don’t hesitate.

Do you even handle effects?

Thu, 05 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Abstract

Questo talk presenta un refactoring incrementale di una piccola utility per l’elaborazione di immagini, trasformandola da codice imperativo a uno stile funzionale tramite la libreria Effect per TypeScript.

Riscriveremo l’applicazione usando funzioni dichiarative che migliorano la componibilità, la gestione degli errori e la separazione delle dipendenze attraverso meccanismi di dependency injection.

Durante il kata discuteremo come le astrazioni funzionali consentano di gestire I/O, concorrenza ed errori in modo più prevedibile, sicuro e manutenibile.

Do you even handle effects?

Wed, 28 May 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Abstract

Scala’s effect systems have come a long way from Monix and Scalaz, to Cats Effect, ZIO, and now Ox and Kyo. The debate between monadic and direct styles is at its peak or maybe, it doesn’t have to be a debate at all.

YAES (Yet Another Effect System) introduces a new approach that lets you combine both styles seamlessly. In this session, we’ll explore how effect systems work, how Scala libraries handle them, and how Scala 3’s context functions enable building a direct-style effect system without losing the power of monadic composition. Join us to discover how you can write expressive, type-safe code while choosing the style that fits you best.

Blazing fast startup time on JVM with limited effort

Wed, 26 Mar 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Abstract

A fast startup time can bring big cost saving on cloud, increased reliability with traffic peaks and avoid over provisioning of resources. We will deep dive into what the JVM is doing at startup and explore three different options to improve the startup time with only a limited development effort.

Language

English

About Mario

Principal Software Engineer @lastminute.com with a deep passion for continuous learning, coding dojos, and sharing knowledge. Mario advocates for XP principles and focus on shortening feedback loops to deliver faster, more impactful software. Mario believes that being a Product Engineer means not just writing code but understanding its real business value. With hands-on experience in Kotlin, Java, Rust, Golang, and JavaScript, he approaches software development as a polyglot, valuing programming paradigms over specific languages.

Zig What, how and why

Wed, 26 Feb 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Abstract

This talk introduces Zig, a relatively young programming language with great future prospects. Zig is a low-level language with a minimalist philosophy, ideal for applications that require precise control of latency and resources. It combines a minimal syntax similar to Go with manual memory management and compilation checks like Rust, but with shorter compilation times. Key features include code execution during compilation, interoperability with C libraries, and high portability. The talk explores the Zig language and its ecosystem for developing modern applications.

UX principles for developers

Thu, 12 Dec 2024 00:00:00 +0000

Abstract

Il talk offre una panoramica su alcuni principi fondamentali dell’User Experience (UX), e sul valore di metterli a fattor comune tra designer e developers. Attraverso esempi pratici e consigli applicabili, verranno mostrati i principi che sono dietro a molte scelte progettuali che abilitano un approccio collaborativo tra design e sviluppo in modo da accrescere la sinergia di un team e migliorare il valore di un prodotto.

Language

Italiano

About Guido

UX designer e facilitatore si occupa di consulenza strategica aiutando aziende ed organizzazioni ad evolvere i loro processi, prodotti e servizi.

UX principles for developers

Thu, 12 Dec 2024 00:00:00 +0000

Abstract

Language

Italiano

About Guido

UX designer e facilitatore si occupa di consulenza strategica aiutando aziende ed organizzazioni ad evolvere i loro processi, prodotti e servizi.

JVM Ergonomics for Software Engineers

Tue, 18 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000

Abstract

Mollie doesn’t have a Java platform team, so software engineers needed to learn how to deal with some basic JVM performance tuning, discovering JVM Ergonomics along the way.

We’ll briefly touch upon a few different aspects of the JVM and how they are managed by default:

Memory allocation
Garbage collection
Active processor count We’ll go through a real use case that we had at Mollie, the problem we faced, and how some basic knowledge of JVM Ergonomics helped us solve the issue.

Language

English

Redis come Vector Database

Thu, 23 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000

Abstract

Redis è famoso per essere un database in tempo reale estremamente versatile: funziona benissimo come cache, per conservare sessioni utente o token di autenticazione, gestire inventari, dati geografici, JSON document store e persino come base per il machine learning. Ma non tutti sanno che Redis è anche un vector database, anzi è il Vector database alla base di Chat-GPT sin dal principio. In questo talk approfondiremo cosa si intende per vettore e analizzeremo le caratteristiche che una vector database deve avere per poter interagire con uno spazio vettoriale.

2. Structure

Sat, 18 Dec 2021 00:00:00 +0000

Understand the structure of the theme’s setup to create content for your website.

Theme’s content structure

.
├── ...
├── content                 # Hosts all Markdown content
│   ├── articles            # Contains the list of markdown files for notes/posts
│   │   ├── article-1.md
│   │   ├── article-2.md
│   │   └── article-3.md
│   └── portfolio           # List of portfolio projects or case studies
│       ├── project-1.md
│       └── project-2.md
├── data                    # Test files (alternatively `spec` or `tests`)
│   └── stack.json          # Data used for rendering the list in Stack page
└── ...

Note that articles, portfolio and also stack pages require you to create _index.md inside of it. Refer the exampleSite in theme.

3. Primary Menu

Sat, 18 Dec 2021 00:00:00 +0000

The sidebar of the theme uses the main menu. Add all the items for your sidebar navigation in this menu.

// config.toml

[menu]
[[menu.main]]
  name = 'Home'
  url = '/'
  weight = 1
[[menu.main]]
  name = 'Content'
  params.header = true
  weight = 2
[[menu.main]]
  name = 'Events'
  url = '/events'
  weight = 3

name → Title of the menu item
url → Path to navigate
weight → Used to decide the order of menu items
params.header → Display menu item as header

If the link points to an external website, the external icon is already displayed.

4. Social Menu

Sat, 18 Dec 2021 00:00:00 +0000

The social menu can be used to configure all the social icons in the sidebar. Add links to your social media in the website config to show the icons.

[[menu.social]]
  name = 'Twitter'
  url = 'https://twitter.com'
  weight = 1

The name of the social menu needs to be unique and should be one of the supported values.

Supported values for the social menu item name:

Twitter
GitHub
LinkedIn
Instagram
Mastodon
Dribbble
Codepen
Twitch
Email
RSS

→ Configure newsletter

5. Newsletter

Sat, 18 Dec 2021 00:00:00 +0000

The theme supports a subscription to multiple newsletter providers.

Buttondown
Substack
Revue

Buttondown

[Params.newsletter.provider] = “buttondown”

Copy the action url from your buttondown admin dashboard and add it to [Params.newsletter.path] in config.toml

Substack

[Params.newsletter.provider] = “substack”

Setting up substack is the easiest. Just add your substack newsletter URL (applicable for custom domains also) to [Params.newsletter.path] in config.toml

Note that since substack doesn’t have a native API for subscription. The theme uses the api from substackapi.com which is in no way associated to Substack itself.

6. Google Analytics

Sat, 18 Dec 2021 00:00:00 +0000

Digital garden theme utilizes the Hugo’s [internal template](internal templates) for Google analytics and so both Google analytics v3 and GA v4 (gtag) are supported.

Add your UA-PROPERTY_ID or G-MEASUREMENT_ID to config.toml

Google Analytics v3 (analytics.js)

googleAnalytics = 'UA-PROPERTY_ID'

Google Analytics v4 (gtag.js)

googleAnalytics = 'G-MEASUREMENT_ID'

→ Configure Metatags

7. Metatags

Sat, 18 Dec 2021 00:00:00 +0000

Metatags are used to provide additional information about the page, usually used by search engines and social media websites / apps. It allows to customize your page’s title, description, preview image and more.

Configure default tags

// config.toml

title = "Personal Digital Garden"

[Params]
  description = "My Digital Garden on the Internet"
  images = ['/digital-garden-logo.png']

Setting the above values will be used as default for all pages unless its overridden in a specific page’s markdown.

Pastry jelly cookie sugar donut orange

Sat, 18 Dec 2021 00:00:00 +0000

Croissant orange croissant dolor orange croissant. Lollipop biscuit donut vanilla sweet croissant. Apple donut candy tiramisu cream jelly. Croissant sweet cookie vanilla tiramisu dolor.

Pastry jelly cookie sugar donut orange. Candy sweet cookie sweet donut marzipan. Vanilla cookie sprinkles pastry orange cookie. Marzipan donut ipsum sugar biscuit vanilla.

Candy cookie muffin pastry lollipop vanilla. Apple orange tiramisu jelly ipsum sugar. Candy cake orange ipsum orange muffin. Sugar pastry orange cream orange pastry.

Cream sugar apple donut apple croissant

Fri, 17 Dec 2021 00:00:00 +0000

Tiramisu sprinkles marzipan lollipop marzipan dolor. Jelly candy marzipan vanilla candy ipsum. Sugar croissant lollipop vanilla cream marzipan. Sprinkles croissant cream dolor jelly marzipan.

Pastry jelly cookie sugar donut orange. Candy sweet cookie sweet donut marzipan. Vanilla cookie sprinkles pastry orange cookie. Marzipan donut ipsum sugar biscuit vanilla.

Candy cookie muffin pastry lollipop vanilla. Apple orange tiramisu jelly ipsum sugar. Candy cake orange ipsum orange muffin. Sugar pastry orange cream orange pastry.

Apple cream vanilla apple marzipan muffin

Thu, 16 Dec 2021 00:00:00 +0000

Tiramisu sprinkles marzipan lollipop marzipan dolor. Jelly candy marzipan vanilla candy ipsum. Sugar croissant lollipop vanilla cream marzipan. Sprinkles croissant cream dolor jelly marzipan.

Pastry jelly cookie sugar donut orange. Candy sweet cookie sweet donut marzipan. Vanilla cookie sprinkles pastry orange cookie. Marzipan donut ipsum sugar biscuit vanilla.

Candy cookie muffin pastry lollipop vanilla. Apple orange tiramisu jelly ipsum sugar. Candy cake orange ipsum orange muffin. Sugar pastry orange cream orange pastry.