Happy Path Programming

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#10 Gazing Into the Programming Crystal Ball and Can Organizations Adopt Inner Source? Oct 20, 2020

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We start off discussing what the future of programming might be... Can developers stop thinking about resource limitations? Can we make the "right path" easy? Then we dive into Inner Source and the organizational & cultural challenges with adopting it.

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#9 Buildpacks, Containers, Kubernetes, Happy Path Programming, Rust, and gRPC Oct 16, 2020

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We start off talking about Cloud Native Buildpacks and Containers which of-course leads to James trying to explain Kubernetes. Then we dive into what "Happy Path Programming" means and how, while the term is somewhat derogatory, it is what we ultimately want. We end with a discussion about Bruce's recent explorations into Rust and gRPC.

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#8 Kotlin Revisited with Cedric Beust Oct 06, 2020

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Long-time Java author & expert, Cedric Beust, joins us to revisit some of the topics from our Kotlin episodes. We talk more deeply about checked exceptions, null safety, the builder pattern, build systems, and of-course Monads.

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#7 Why Adopt New Technology? And Monads! Monads! Monads! Sep 29, 2020

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What are the reasons to adopt or migrate to a new technology? What prevents you from doing so? We explore that question and the differences between green-field and brown-field. Then we finally dive deep into Monads trying to conquer the Curse of the Monad.

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#6 The Crusade Against Custom Declarative Languages and Meta-Bike-Shedding Sep 25, 2020

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James officially launches his crusade against custom declarative languages and then we bike-shed about bike-shedding; exploring ways to make decisions for trivial problems.

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#5 Developer Productivity, Non-Violent Agile, and Organizational Structures Sep 17, 2020

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We begin by talking about personal developer productivity but then expand the scope to "collective" / team productivity. This leads us to grapple with some challenging ideas around Agile, non-violent communication, organization structures, diversity, and inclusion.

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#4 Why is Developer Experience Often Terrible? Sep 16, 2020

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In this episode we discuss things that are often overlooked in developer experience and what underlying values make developer experience an afterthought.

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#3 Nulls, ADTs, and Code Formatting Sep 15, 2020

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A bike-shedless discussion about nulls, algebraic data types, and code formatting.

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#2 More Kotlin! Sep 14, 2020

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In episode 2 we continue the conversation about Kotlin, things we enjoy and things that could be better.

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#1 Adventures in Kotlin Sep 13, 2020

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In our first episode we discuss features of the Kotlin programming language that we like.