2026-08-29 08:00:00
In June this year I joined AMI Labs, a company trying to develop the next generation of AI models that go beyond the limits of the LLMs and image/video-gen models that are ubiquitous today. This post discusses why among all the AI companies out there, I thought AMI's mission and vision were interesting to me, and why I ended up joining AMI to help drive that vision forward.
NOTE: I am not a ML/AI expert, I am an infrastructure engineer. So some of my understanding of these ML/AI concepts may be slightly imprecise or inaccurate
2025-07-30 08:00:00
uTest is a small unit testing library I maintain that aims for simplicity and convenience. This blog post explores the Golden testing feature newly-added in uTest 0.9.0: why it is necessary, what it does, and how it works internally. This feature was inspired by the Jane Street blog post What if writing tests was a joyful experience.
2024-06-09 08:00:00
The com.lihaoyi platform is an ecosystem of Scala tools and libraries that allow you to write Scala in a way that is easy, rather than powerful. This post discusses the history of the com.lihaoyi platform, how it came about and evolved over the past decade, and what role I think it may play in the future of the Scala language.
2024-01-15 08:00:00
This blog post discusses the introduction of the ScalaSql query library. Why it is needed, what it brings to the table over the many existing database query libraries in the Scala ecosystem, and what makes it fit nicely into the com-lihaoyi philosophy of "Executable Scala Pseudocode that's Easy, Boring, and Fast"
2023-09-18 08:00:00
Mill is a Scala build tool that offers an alternative to the venerable SBT toolchain. Mill aims for simplicity by reusing concepts you are already familiar with, borrowing ideas from Functional Programming and modern tools like Bazel. Feedback from users of Mill is often surprisingly positive, with people saying it is "intuitive" or feels "just right".
In this post, we'll explore why Mill is such an intuitive build tool. We'll get familiar with Mill, do a deep dive into the core ideas of what Mill is all about, and finally discuss how these core design decisions build up to a surprisingly intuitive and flexible user experience that is much more than the sum of its parts.
2023-06-11 08:00:00
Python has a reputation as "Executable Pseudocode": code that fits just as easily on a whiteboard during a discussion, as it does in a codebase deploying to production. Scala is a language that can be just as concise a pseudocode as Python, and arguably better at the "executable" part: faster, safer, and with better tooling. This blog post will explore how the Scala libraries from the com.lihaoyi ecosystem allows the use of Scala as Executable Pseudocode, due to their unique design philosophy that stands out amongst the rest of the Scala ecosystem.
