Ed Maxedon

Writes about Scala, languages, and the craft of small tools.

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Posts by Ed Maxedon · 5 posts

1. Why static sites still win

   December 4, 2024 ·1 min read

   Generated HTML is fast, cheap, and ages well. A short defence of the boring choice.

2. A whirlwind tour of Scala 3

   November 18, 2024 ·2 min read

   Five things Scala 3 gets right, illustrated with the smallest examples that make the case.

3. Markdown is enough

   October 30, 2024 ·1 min read

   Plain-text markup turned out to be the right level of abstraction for the writing web.

4. On coffee rituals

   August 15, 2024 ·1 min read

   A small daily practice with a hardware budget, a chemistry, and an entire morning baked in.