kelley robinson

Giter8 templates are an amazing tool for spinning up new Scala projects quickly. I recently created a template for a lightweight Finatra API…

Last week I encouraged a friend to give a conference talk about some tooling he had built, but was met with mild protest. “I feel like…

This is the follow up post in to my explanation of for Scala developers. Read part one here. Code examples can be found here: https…

Scala developers love to discuss Monads, their metaphors, and their many use cases. Parts of functional programming (FP) may be built on the…

There was a gem of “practical computing” advice nested in the comments of a Fred Wilson blog post today. I’m including this here for ease of…

I created a base Scala application repository so that I didn’t have to do it every time I started a new project. Maybe you’ll find it useful…

It’s pretty easy to host a static site on Amazon, all you have to do is copy files to an S3 bucket, update a couple of properties on the…

Migrating this site from ~5 static pages to a static site generator took some time, but it will provide enough convenience for updating that…

In my programming career so far, I’ve spent most of my time lurking behind the scenes - working with data, APIs, and infrastructure. Very…