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Racing Down the Track (Gundam Seed 38)

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Thoughts on Wrestle Princess

I was at Wrestle Princess yesterday, and it felt like enough of an occasion that I wanted to record my thoughts. I'm not a serious critic and I don't have a whole lot of technical knowledge of wrestling, so this is purely a personal account.

Out of Options (Gundam Seed 37)

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The Next Generation (Gundam Seed 36)

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People who disagree with you aren’t trying to make things complex. Maybe you’re wrong.

I recently saw Daniel Westheide's [The Complexity Trap: Think Before You Leap](https://danielwestheide.com/blog/2018/12/07/the-complexity-trap.html), and the more I think about it the more I disagree.

Deploying Scala.js to the Web with Netlify

Scala has long been my language of choice, but while I was aware of Scala.js, the process to get from Scala code to something that people could access in a web browser was a bit intimidating. Last week I set up a Scala.js project to automatically deploy the `master` branch from github to a website running on Netlify, and was pleasantly surprised at how easy and straightforward it all was.

Streaming Console Game

I was pleased to see the library introduction in [eed3si9n's post about console games in Scala](http://eed3si9n.com/console-games-in-scala) - but concerned by the global mutable state used in the example code. Even with only tens of lines of code, it was difficult to follow the data flow and logic. So I forked the code at [https://github.com/m50d/console-game](https://github.com/m50d/console-game)…

The Hero We Need (Gundam Seed 35)

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We Are Never Ever Ever Getting Back Together (Gundam Seed 34)

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Crimson Tide (Gundam Seed 33)

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