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How to GPG as a Scala OSS Maintainer

tl;dr Generate a GPG key pair (exercising appropriate paranoia). Send it to key servers. Create a Keybase account with the public part of that key. Use your keypair to sign git tags and SBT artifacts.

GPG is probably one of the least understood day-to-day pieces of software in the modern developer's toolshed. It's certainly the least understood of the important pieces of software (literally no one cares that you can't remember grep's regex variant), and this is a testament to the mightily terrible user interface it exposes to its otherwise extremely simple functionality. It's almost like cryptographers think that part of the security comes from the fact that bad guys can't figure it out any more than the good guys can.

Anyway, GPG is important for open source in particular because of one specific feature of public/private key cryptography: signing. Any published software should be signed by the developer (or company) who published it. Ideally, consu

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cvogt / gist:d9049c63fc395654c4b4
Created May 17, 2014 20:04
This code implements a facility for Slick 2.0 to inject custom SQL instead of the Slick produced SQL to be used when running a query
import scala.slick.lifted.{TableQuery => _}
import scala.slick.ast._
import scala.slick.driver._
import scala.language.implicitConversions
/** Extends QueryInvoker to allow overriding used SQL statement when executing a query */
trait OverridingInvoker extends JdbcDriver{
// get the extended QueryInvoker into the .simple._ implicits
override val Implicit: Implicits = new Implicits
override val simple: Implicits with SimpleQL = new Implicits with SimpleQL
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shajra / Task.scala
Created August 23, 2013 03:34
integration code between Scalaz and Scala standard concurrency libraries.
import concurrent.{ExecutionContext, Future => SFuture, Promise}
import util.Try
import _root_.scalaz.\/
import _root_.scalaz.concurrent.{Task => ZTask}
object Task {
def fromScala[A]