Daniel Beskin

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I enjoy using Scala and Functional Programming to craft code that is beautiful, maintainable, and fun to write.

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Moving Away from Hashnode

This blog has moved away from the Hashnode platform. Going forwards new posts will published on: https://blog.daniel-beskin.com If you subscribed to the RSS feed it should work with the same URL as before. If you subscribed via email you should be au...

Aug 8, 20251 min read

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First Make It Correct

Way back in December, in the spirit of the times (it seems that everyone was either solving Advent of Code or looking for a job), like an elephant in a china shop, I found myself solving a leetcode-style problem. Before I say anything else1, I would ...

Jun 10, 202570 min read

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Random Scala Tip #624: The Pitfalls of Option Blindness

Given this class: case class User( id: UserId, email: Option[Email], address: Option[Address], posts: Option[List[Post]], lastLogin: Option[Timestamp]) What does Option on each of the fields actually means? Well, after spending hours diggi...

Apr 30, 20256 min read

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Whiteboxish Macro Powers with Named Tuples

I've recently stumbled upon a post on Scala Contributors by Kit Langton describing how he managed to create the illusion of adding automatically derived (publicly visible) members to a companion of a class. Something that's no longer possible to achi...

Apr 14, 202510 min read

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Random Scala Tip #568: Beware of Leaking Iterators

The Tip The Scala collections library defines an Iterator trait. As you might expect, a typical Iterator's implementation relies on mutable state. And so for the today's tip: Beware of leaking Iterator instances outside the scope you initialized it ...

Jan 15, 20255 min read

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Random Scala Tip #568: Beware of Leaking Iterators

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Daniel Beskin

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Moving Away from Hashnode

First Make It Correct

Random Scala Tip #624: The Pitfalls of Option Blindness

Whiteboxish Macro Powers with Named Tuples

Random Scala Tip #568: Beware of Leaking Iterators