https://mostly.codes/ Personal blog of Tobias Roland. Writing about people, processes, and technology. en-gb Tue, 31 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://mostly.codes/blog/modern-communication-is-an-inverse-zipfile-llm-culture https://mostly.codes/blog/modern-communication-is-an-inverse-zipfile-llm-culture Tue, 31 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000 How LLM-mediated communication creates a lossy inverse zipfile effect, eroding trust and signal quality in how we talk to each other. https://mostly.codes/blog/rethinking-how-i-blog-technically https://mostly.codes/blog/rethinking-how-i-blog-technically Sun, 27 Jul 2025 00:00:00 +0000 Moving from Jekyll to hand-rolled HTML and CSS — finding joy in reducing cognitive overhead and embracing brutalist web design. https://mostly.codes/blog/creating-scalajs-gcp-cloud-functions https://mostly.codes/blog/creating-scalajs-gcp-cloud-functions Fri, 17 Jan 2020 00:00:00 +0000 A guide to creating GCP Cloud Functions with Scala.js in approximately 10 lines of code. https://mostly.codes/blog/scale-by-the-bay-2019 https://mostly.codes/blog/scale-by-the-bay-2019 Sun, 17 Nov 2019 00:00:00 +0000 A recap of attending the Scale by the Bay 2019 conference in San Francisco — talks on Scala, functional programming, ZIO, and Unison. https://mostly.codes/blog/career-break https://mostly.codes/blog/career-break Sat, 09 Nov 2019 00:00:00 +0000 Taking time off to study functional programming, Scala, and category theory — quitting a stable job to focus on what I care about.