August 01, 2017

Functional Geekery Episode 102 - Brian Hicks

54 minutes

In this episode I talk with Brian Hicks. We talk his into to Elm, Elm Conf, the State of Elm Survey, community building, and more.

Our Guest, Brian Hicks

https://www.brianthicks.com/

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Conference Announcements

Compose Melbourne will be taking place August 28th and 29th. For more information and to register, visit http://www.composeconference.org/2017-melbourne/.

The Strange Loop coming! It will be held in St. Louis, MO on September 28-30, 2017 at the Peabody Opera House. To submit your CfP, visit http://thestrangeloop.com/.

PWLConf 2017 will be taking place September 28th in St. Louis, MO, before Strange Loop. Visit http://pwlconf.org/ for more information and to stay updated on latest announcements.

Open FSharp will be taking place the 28th-29th of September in San Francisco, California. Visit openfsharp.org for more information and to register.

RacketCon is October 7th & 8th at the University of Washington, with keynote speakers Dan Friedman and Will Byrd. Visit http://con.racket-lang.org/ for more information and to register.

LambdaWorld will be taking place in Cadiz, Spain on October 26th and 27th. For more information visit and to keep updated visit http://www.lambda.world/.

CodeMesh is coming up November 8th and 9th in London. For more information, and to keep an eye open for registration, visit http://www.codemesh.io/.

Moonconf will be taking place the 9th-11th of November. For more information visit http://moonconf.org/.

If you have a conference related to functional programming, contact me, and I will be happy to announce it.

Announcements

Some of you have asked how you can support Functional Geekery, in that vein,

Functional Geekery now has a Patreon Page.

If that is one of the ways you would like to show your support, you can

find out more at https://www.patreon.com/fngeekery.

Topics [@4:20]

About Brian

NoRedInk

Elm

I Brian got introduced to programming

PHP

Python

Haskell

Functional Programming Principles in Scala Coursera Course

STL Python Group

Learning “You can implement any collection operator with foldl and foldr”

Experience folding functional programming constructs back into Python

Celery

Strange Loop

Make the Back-end Team Jealous

Mantl

Mantl UI frontend

Ansible

Mesos

Kubernetes

First experience getting into Elm

Union Types

start-app

JSON.Decode library

Pipeline operator in Elm

Currying in Elm

Error Messages in Elm

Using the compiler as a tool to guide a refactoring

What prompted putting on Elm Conf

St. Louis Elm user group

Elm Conf US 2017 is taking place September 28

State of Elm Survey

State of Elm Survey 2017 Results

State of Elm Survey 2017 overview

elm-format

Integrating Elm into your existing JavaScript application

style-elements from Matthew Griffith

High level picture of Elm components

“The benefit of Elm is creating apps that don’t break”

“Elm approach to API design is rather like grilling something versus cooking it sous-vide”

Teasing Elm Conf 2017

Strange Loop

“I’m happy to recommend restaurants as I am local”

Elm Conf US compared to other Elm Conferences

Elm Europe

Oslo Elm Day

Encouragements for getting more Elm Conferences

Start a Elm user group

Recommendations and places to get started

dreamwriter

builtwithelm.co

Elm Slack

Elm sub-reddit

Elm in Action

The JSON Survival Kit

Use code `geekery` for 10% off

Planet Elm

As always, a giant Thank You goes to David Belcher for the logo design.

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