Happy Path Programming

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#61 Compassionate Communities with Tonya Moore May 13, 2022

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Tonya Moore has been helping build developer communities for years. We discuss how to deal with jerks and the importance of building on a foundation of compassion.

Referenced blog from Bill Venners: https://www.artima.com/articles/compassion-in-our-community

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#60 Kotlin Language Design with Roman Elizarov Apr 12, 2022

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Kotlin Language designer Roman Elizarov, joins us to talk about finding the right balances when designing Kotlin.

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#59 Goetz's Law, Dhall, and Nix (With Gabriella Gonzalez) Mar 29, 2022

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Gabriella Gonzalez joins to teach us about the Dhall configuration language they created and Nix.

References:

The Dhall configuration language

Henk: a typed intermediate language

Pants Build Tool

The Purely Functional Software Deployment Model

Haskell for all: How to use NixOS for lightweight integration tests

How to market Haskell to a mainstream programmer

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#58 Scala 3: Significant indentation and other things we love (With Martin Odersky) Mar 20, 2022

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Martin Odersky, creator of Scala, joins us to chat about Scala, Effects, Exceptions, Experiments, and other Exciting stuff.

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#57 Technology Trade Offs: Python & Kotlin (With Matt Anger) Mar 15, 2022

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We explore with Matt Anger a blog he wrote about migrating from Python to Kotlin and the trade offs engineering teams make when deciding which technologies to use.

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#56 Feedback Loops & Software is Like Surgery (With Daniel Terhorst-North) Mar 10, 2022

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We explore with Daniel Terhorst-North how social and technical feedback loops can help us build the right thing faster.

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#55 Apache Kafka - Like Functional Programming but for Data (With Anna McDonald) Mar 03, 2022

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We chat with the Kafka Duchess, Anna McDonald, about Apache Kafka, CQRS, Event Sourcing, and of-course Functional Programming.

Note: There was a bit of echo for a few minutes but we did resolve it around 8 minutes in.

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#54 Flix: Designing a principled programming language with Magnus Madsen Feb 05, 2022

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Magnus Madsen, language designer for the Flix programming language, joins us to talk about the driving principles and innovative features of the language.

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#53 Open Source: Free as in Hot Dogs (With Donald Fischer) Jan 21, 2022

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Open Source is an essential foundation for pretty much everything. How do we fund it appropriately? What do we do about Log4Shell-types of issues? Donald Fischer of Tidelift joins us to discuss these economic and human issues.

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#52 Reveling in Nonsense With Josh Long Jan 14, 2022

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A stroll through 20 years of Spring with Josh Long. Also: Bruce, James, and Josh announce their new Ska band.

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