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**Happy Path Programming**

No-frills discussions between Bruce Eckel and James Ward about programming, what it is, and what it should be.

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#91 'Tis The Season For Reducing Gradle Friction Dec 22, 2023

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Announcing Graboo, a collection of experiments to reduce friction with Gradle. Repo:

https://github.com/jamesward/graboo

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#90 The Best Manager with Sushila Sahay Dec 15, 2023

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Most of us have managers but they aren't always great. We chat with James' best manager, Sushila Sahay, about what makes her such a great manager. We also dive a bit into open source business models since Sushila has deep experience in that realm.

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#89 Algebraic Effects with Kyo (Flavio Brasil) Dec 08, 2023

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We learn about Algebraic Effects with the Scala library Kyo ( getkyo.io) from the creator, Flavio Brasil.

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#88 Developers Thriving In the Flow with Arty Starr Oct 20, 2023

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Arty Starr is a PhD student and entrepreneur focused on helping developers thrive. We chat about her research on developer momentum and ways that developers can find joy through more time in the flow state.

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#87 Diving Deeper into Wasm with Zalim Bashorov Oct 06, 2023

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Zalim Bashorov (@bashorov) works on Kotlin/Wasm at JetBrains and answers our many questions about Wasm, GC, the Component Model, and other future proposals.

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#86 The Journey to OCaml with Sabine Sep 29, 2023

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Sabine went from acedemia and a PhD in formal methods, to Python, Elm, Haskell, and now OCaml. We chat about this journey and some of the reasons why OCaml is an awesome modern language.

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#85 Scala, Rust, and Durable Computing with John De Goes Sep 15, 2023

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Our chat with John De Goes starts with his Scala & Rust journeys, then goes into Golem Cloud, a serverless durable computing platform underpinned by Wasm, and ends with a discussion about whether business applications really need parallelism.

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#84 Inevitable Failure with Dormain Drewitz Sep 06, 2023

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We chat with Dormain Drewitz about failure and reliability. Ironically our recording software crashed near the end of the episode but we recovered and wrapped things up.

Referenced Article: 10 Years of Failure Friday at PagerDuty: Fostering Resilience, Learning and Reliability

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#83 Rust Developer Retreat & Structured Concurrency Aug 21, 2023

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At the Rust Developer Retreat we explored Structured Concurrency with Tokio. With the attendees we chat about our projects and things learned, liked, and disliked about Rust. Then dive into Structured Concurrency generally and specific implementations.

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#82 The Future of Programming Jul 07, 2023

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Bruce and James chat about the future of programming.

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