ostinato: a chess engine written in Scala that runs in the Browser, Docker and the REPL Developing ostinato was an amazing experience. I got to learn a lot about chess, a lot about Scala, a lot about OSS and a lot about software engineering. Mariano Gappa (@MarianoGappa)

Adopting Scala: The Next Steps Learn about journey into functional programming with incremental progress from “Java-like” Scala to FP. Sofia Cole (@sofiacole35)

Upgrading From Play Framework 2.3 to Play 2.5 Can it be fun to do such an upgrade? You bet! Gregg Hernandez

Capturing Packets with Scala Native and libpcap scala-native opens up a plethora of integration opportunities: you are no longer restricted to using JVM-only libraries or waiting for those wrappers, no longer restricted to using C++/C for lower level or high performance programming. William Narmontas (@ScalaWilliam)

What are Scala Type Classes? In this post I will describe 5 simple steps for encoding a type class in Scala in an idiomatic way. Leif Battermann (@leifbattermann)

Type Families in Scala An exercise of how to leverage the Aux pattern and other techniques to make a typed printing function inspired by the not type-safe C function sprintf. Ruben Pieters

A Quick Guide to Concurrency in Scala Unlike Java, Scala is not limited by default to Threads for concurrency (although they are still an option), but there are a range of useful ways to do things in the background. Matthew Rathbone (@rathboma)

ScalaSwarm CFP Apply if you'd like to speak in Portugal, Porto, June 20-23th 2017. CFP ends April 8th. ScalaSwarm

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frameless Frameless is a proof-of-concept library for working with Spark using more expressive types. frameless contributors

nspl (new scala plotting library) Creates scatter, line, contour, raster, barplots and boxplots, histograms, density plots. Composite figure of multiple plots. Istvan Bartha

sbt-scalaz Helpful SBT plugin for cross-publishing libraries with Scalaz. Ross Baker and Tim Perrett

better-files 3.0.0 A major update with many utils, updated metadata API, removed scala.io dependency and more. better-files contributors

pomisos An open source application for pomodoro technique, based on Scala, JavaFX and Gremlin. Mikołaj Koziarkiewicz

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