P. Oscar BoykinOn Working With ZIO ProjectsRecently I made the following tweet:3 min read·Nov 8, 2021----
P. Oscar BoykinA moderate take on cryptocurrencyWith Bitcoin prices back up high, people are again variously hyping or disparaging cryptocurrency. I don’t often see moderate takes on the…5 min read·Jan 13, 2021--2--2
P. Oscar BoykinDesigning a Parsing Library in ScalaParsing is something that many programmers dread. Many prefer to cram all their use cases into existing formats, such as JSON or YAML…8 min read·Oct 29, 2020--1--1
P. Oscar BoykinWhat is a programming language community and what does it value?I started using the Scala programming language in 2010. In 2011, I joined Twitter and worked there using Scala professionally for four and…8 min read·Jun 8, 2020----
P. Oscar BoykinSome Difficulties with Open Source SoftwareIn 1993 I was at Georgia Tech and first learned of a free version of Unix I could install on my PC. Linux, I had learned from a good…6 min read·Oct 15, 2019--1--1
P. Oscar BoykinBuild. Part 2: Incremental Reproducibility.In part 1 I discussed the main feature a build system should have: reproducibility. In this part I discuss how we get reproducibility with…4 min read·Sep 17, 2017--1--1
P. Oscar BoykinBuild. Part 1: ReproducibilityWhen you write a bunch of code that may have complex internal dependencies using a language with a compiler, you need to build…3 min read·Feb 23, 2017--2--2
P. Oscar BoykinThings I’d like to see in the US governmentSince the election, a lot of people have been talking about what they don’t like. I think it might be important to also talk about what we…5 min read·Feb 5, 2017--2--2