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  • Functional Geekery Episode 121 - Claudia Doppioslash

    In this episode I talk with Claudia Doppioslash. We catch up with what she has been doing since Episode 42, which includes PureScript and Elm, GRiSP, applying functional ideas to game programming, and more.

    Our Guest, Claudia Doppioslash

    http://doppioslash.com/

    @doppioslash on Twitter
    @lambda_cat on Twitter
    @shadercat on Twitter
    LambdaCat
    ShaderCat

    Conference Announcements

    Midlands Graduate School (MGS) is going to be held in Nottingham, UK, 9–13 April, hosted by the School of Computer Science, the University of Nottingham. For more information and to register visit: https://www.functionalgeekery.com/MGS2018

    Detroit Day of Functional will be taking place Saturday, April 14th in Pontiac Michigan, just outside of Detroit. For more information and to register, visit https://www.functionalgeekery.com/detroitfp2018

    ElixirConf EU will be taking place April 16th and 17th in Warsaw, Poland. For more information, and to register, visit: http://www.elixirconf.eu/.

    BuzzConf will take place the Thursday 26th of April, with workshops on Friday April 27th, in Buenos Aires, Argentina. For more information, and to register, visit: http://buzzconf.org/.

    CodeBEAM STO, formerly Erlang User Conference, celebrates the 20th Anniversary of Erlang being made Open Sourced, and will be taking place May 31st and June 1st. For more information and to register visit https://codesync.global.

    Monadic Party, a 5 day Haskell Summer School, will be taking place in Poznań, Poland the 11th-15th of June. Visit https://monadic.party/ for more information and to register.

    International Conference on Functional Programming 2018 will be taking place September 23 – 29th in St. Louis, MO. For more information, and to register visit: https://icfp18.sigplan.org/

    StrangeLoop 2018 will be taking place September 27th and 28th, with a pre-conference day on the 26th in St. Louis, MO. To keep updated as details become announced you can find out more at: https://www.thestrangeloop.com/

    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 [@5:08]

    About Claudia

    Claudia’s past appearance on Episode 42
    Claudia’s talk on PureScript and Elm at LambdaDays 2017
    What Claudia has been up to in the past 2 years
    Elm
    Elm 0.17 and the move from Functional Reactive Programming
    Erlang
    GRiSP
    PureScript
    Halogen
    Claudia’s LambdaDays presentation Visualizing Home Automation with GRiSP
    Writing a book on Shader Programming
    PluralSight course Developing Custom Shaders in Unity
    Difference in working in Elm and PureScript
    When she might pick Elm and when PureScript
    Programming model difference between Elm and Halogen in PureScript
    purescript-spork
    Halogen guide
    GRiSP
    Applying Functional Programming to writing games
    Rust
    AreWeGameYet
    Clojure in Unity with Arcadia
    F# in Unity
    Places where functional ideas fit in with game programming
    Function Reactive Libraries for game programming
    Robert Virding – Synchronizing Game Components
    Erlang
    Things that are interesting Claudia today
    Rust
    Entity Component Systems
    Caitie McCaffrey on Hanselminutes
    Idris
    Ray tracing support in GPUs
    Vulkan
    What about Idris seems appealing
    Upcoming conference talk ideas
    Rhino 3D modeling
    Physically Based Shader Development for Unity 2017

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

    57 min
  • Functional Geekery Episode 120 - Lisa Passing

    In this episode I talk with Lisa Passing. We talk her introduction to Clojure and functional programming, her intro to Rust, how Rust fits in the functional programming world, and more.

    Our Guest, Lisa Passing

    lislis on Github

    Conference Announcements

    LambdaDays 2018 will be taking place February 22nd and 23rd in Kraków, Poland. For more information, and to register, visit http://www.lambdadays.org/.

    BOB 2018 is coming up in Berlin, Germany on February 23rd, 2018. For more information, and to register, visit http://bobkonf.de/.

    :clojureD will be following BOB 2018 in Berlin, Germany on February 24th, 2018. For more information, and to register, visit http://clojured.de/.

    Comcast Labs Connect Functional Programming conference will be taking place Friday March 9th in Philadelphia, PA. For more information and to register visit: https://comcastlabsconnectfp.comcast.com/

    Micheal Nygard will be hosting a 5-day workshop “Monolith to Microservices” on March 12th-16th in Fort Walton Beach, Florida. For more information, and to register, visit: https://n6consulting.com/workshop/monolith-to-microservices/

    CodeBeamSF will be taking place March 15th and 16th, with training taking on the 12th-14th and 19th-21st of March. For more information, and to register, visit: https://codesync.global/conferences/code-beam-sf-2018.

    Lambda Squared is a new conference taking place March 30th in Knoxville, Tennessee. For more information, and to register, visit https://www.lambda-squared.com/.

    Midlands Graduate School (MGS) is going to be held in Nottingham, UK, 9–13 April, hosted by the School of Computer Science, the University of Nottingham. For more information and to register visit: https://www.functionalgeekery.com/MGS2018

    ElixirConf EU will be taking place April 16th and 17th in Warsaw, Poland. For more information, and to register, visit: http://www.elixirconf.eu/.

    BuzzConf will take place the Thursday 26th of April, with workshops on Friday April 27th, in Buenos Aires, Argentina. For more information, and to register, visit: http://buzzconf.org/.

    Monadic Party, a 5 day Haskell Summer School, will be taking place in Poznań, Poland the 11th-15th of June. Visit https://monadic.party/ for more information and to register.

    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 [@6:15]

    About Lisa

    PHP
    WordPress
    Clojure
    Rust
    How Lisa first got exposed to Clojure
    Node.js
    Ruby
    ClojureBridge
    ClojureScript
    The help/hindrance of exposure to other languages
    Lua
    Writing little games to learn a language
    What was the convincing needed to look at Clojure
    Grasping what “Code as Data” means
    Principles picked up from learning Clojure
    How Rust was put on Lisa’s radar
    Hesitancy at working with a systems language
    RustFest
    “You can try and it doesn’t matter if you fail”
    Crates
    Hearing of the idea of a web-framework in Rust
    Working with a statically typed language
    Haskell
    Rust Programming Language Book
    Pattern Matching
    How Clojure inspired ways of working in Rust
    Traits
    Functions vs Closures in Rust
    Overview of Lisa’s upcoming talk at LambdaDays
    Where Lisa sees Rust fitting in the programming languages ecosystem
    When Clojure vs Rust
    LambdaDays
    :clojureD
    RustFest
    ClojureBridge
    ClojureBridge Berlin

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

    57 min
  • Functional Geekery Episode 119 - Jared Forsyth

    In this episode I talk with Jared Forsyth. We talk his exploration of programming languages, his exposure to programming languages, work in the Reason community, Reason Town, and more.

    Our Guest, Jared Forsyth

    @jaredforsyth on Twitter

    jaredly on Github
    https://jaredforsyth.com/
    Reason Town
    @ReasonTownFM on Twitter

    Conference Announcements

    PyCon Colombia 2018 will be taking place February 9th, 10th & 11th in Medellin, Colombia. For more information, and to register, visit https://www.pycon.co/.

    Clojure SYNC will be taking place in New Orleans on February 15th & 16th of 2018. For more information and to register visit: http://clojuresync.com/.

    LambdaDays 2018 will be taking place February 22nd and 23rd in Kraków, Poland. For more information, and to register, visit http://www.lambdadays.org/.

    BOB 2018 is coming up in Berlin, Germany on February 23rd, 2018. For more information, and to register, visit http://bobkonf.de/.

    :clojureD will be following BOB 2018 in Berlin, Germany on February 24th, 2018. For more information, and to register, visit http://clojured.de/.

    Micheal Nygard will be hosting a 5-day workshop “Monolith to Microservices” on March 12th-16th in Fort Walton Beach, Florida. For more information, and to register, visit: https://n6consulting.com/workshop/monolith-to-microservices/

    CodeBeamSF will be taking place March 15th and 16th, with training taking on the 12th-14th and 19th-21st of March. For more information, and to register, visit: https://codesync.global/conferences/code-beam-sf-2018.

    Lambda Squared is a new conference taking place March 30th in Knoxville, Tennessee. For more information, and to register, visit https://www.lambda-squared.com/.

    ElixirConf EU will be taking place April 16th and 17th in Warsaw, Poland. For more information, and to register, visit: http://www.elixirconf.eu/.

    BuzzConf will take place the Thursday 26th of April, with workshops on Friday April 27th, in Buenos Aires, Argentina. For more information, and to register, visit: http://buzzconf.org/.

    Monadic Party, a 5 day Haskell Summer School, will be taking place in Poznań, Poland the 11th-15th of June. Visit https://monadic.party/ for more information and to register.

    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 [@5:46]

    About Jared

    Kahn Academy
    How Jared got into programming
    Game-Maker
    Python
    Java
    C++
    C#
    Racket
    JavaScript
    CoffeeScript
    ClojureScript
    Flow
    Go
    Rust
    Reason
    What languages were Jared using consistently
    Languages bleeding in between each other
    Things Jared ran into in the different languages
    core.typed
    WebAssembly
    What were the things Jared was looking for in a language
    What put Reason on Jared’s radar
    The current state of Reason for adoption
    Current state of integration with JavaScript
    OCaml
    BuckleScript
    ReasonReact
    Reason React Native
    Where the Reason adoption is primarily taking place at this point
    pack.re
    Targeting native devices on iOS and Android with Reason
    Jared’s work in Reason
    Blogging Reason experiments
    Making a cross-platform mobile game in Reason/OCaml
    Reason Town
    “Languages live or die by their community”
    Format of Reason Town
    First Reason Conference in Vienna
    Geographic distribution of Reason
    Where to stay up to date with Reason
    Reason Website
    Reason Discord Channel
    Reason Articles on Reason website
    What excites Jared in the Reason community
    Reason React compiled to native iOS without JavaScript bridge
    esy package manager
    Places to contribute to Reason
    Reason on Twitter
    ReasonML Hub on Twitter

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

    0 min
  • Functional Geekery Episode 118 - Scott Nimrod

    In this episode I talk with Scott Nimrod. We catch up with what he has been up to since he was last on, using F# for profit, Nikeza, Elm, and more.

    Our Guest, Scott Nimrod

    @bizmonger on Twitter

    https://bizmonger.wordpress.com/
    bizmonger on Github
    Scott’s YouTube Channel

    Conference Announcements

    Clojure SYNC will be taking place in New Orleans on February 15th & 16th of 2018. For more information and to register visit: http://clojuresync.com/.

    LambdaDays 2018 will be taking place February 22nd and 23rd in Kraków, Poland. For more information, and to register, visit http://www.lambdadays.org/.

    BOB 2018 is coming up in Berlin, Germany on February 23rd, 2018. For more information, and to register, visit http://bobkonf.de/.

    :clojureD will be following BOB 2018 in Berlin, Germany on February 24th, 2018. For more information, and to register, visit http://clojured.de/.

    Lambda Squared is a new conference taking place March 30th in Knoxville, Tennessee. For more information, and to register, visit https://www.lambda-squared.com/.

    LambdUp, Prague’s biggest functional programming event of the year, will be taking place December 16th at MeetFactory in Prague. For more information and to register visit: https://www.lambdup.io/

    Monadic Party, a 5 day Haskell Summer School, will be taking place in Poznań, Poland the 11th-15th of June. Visit https://monadic.party/ for more information and to register.

    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 [@4:01]

    Welcome back to Scott

    Scott on Episode 53
    F#
    Using F# at work beyond just learning on the side
    Sagas
    Functional And Reactive Domain Modeling by Debasish Ghosh
    Lessons learned from moving from using F# for just fun, to using F# for profit
    Using `` around function names in tests to allow test names to read as sentences
    Event Driven Architecture and Sagas
    Eric Normand on Episode 41 talking about how most things can be reduced to a `map`, `filter`, or `reduce`.
    Ody Mbegbu on Episode 81
    LambdaCartel
    Nikeza
    LambdaCartel video streams
    Lessons learned from working on Nikeza
    .NET Core
    Giraffe
    Working with F# on .NET Core
    Docker
    Visual Studio Code
    Visual Studio Code and Ionide
    Visual Studio 2017 version 15.6 – Preview Release
    Elm
    Domain Modeling Made Functional by Scott Wlaschin
    The Book of F#
    Branching Out With Elm
    Differences Scott found between working with F# and working with Elm
    F# Advent Calendar
    Scott’s F# Advent Calendar contribution
    Attending NDC Minnesota
    Scott talking with Scott Wlaschin

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

    1 hr 2 min
  • Functional Geekery Episode 117 - Eric Normand

    In this episode I talk with Eric Normand. We catch up with what he has been up to since last episode, talk re-frame in ClojureScript, his newsletter, Clojure SYNC, online community discussions, and more.

    Our Guest, Eric Normand

    @ericnormand on Twitter

    http://www.lispcast.com/
    http://www.clojuregazette.com/
    http://www.purelyfunctional.tv/
    Clojure SYNC

    Conference Announcements

    LambdUp, Prague’s biggest functional programming event of the year, will be taking place December 16th at MeetFactory in Prague. For more information and to register visit: https://www.lambdup.io/

    Clojure SYNC will be taking place in New Orleans on February 15th & 16th of 2018. For more information and to register visit: http://clojuresync.com/.

    LambdaDays 2018 will be taking place February 22nd and 23rd in Kraków, Poland. For more information, and to register, visit http://www.lambdadays.org/.

    BOB 2018 is coming up in Berlin, Germany on February 23rd, 2018. For more information, and to register, visit http://bobkonf.de/.

    :clojureD will be following BOB 2018 in Berlin, Germany on February 24th, 2018. For more information, and to register, visit http://clojured.de/.

    Lambda Squared is a new conference taking place March 30th in Knoxville, Tennessee. For more information, and to register, visit https://www.lambda-squared.com/.

    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 [@2:59]

    Welcome back to Eric

    Eric on Episode 18
    Eric on Episode 41
    http://www.purelyfunctional.tv/
    re-frame
    JQuery
    Backbone.js
    ClojureScript
    React
    Angular
    Vue
    Reagent
    What re-frame gets you
    Event architecture
    “Your events and subscriptions become your bedrock”
    Redux
    The Elm Architecture
    “Confidence that we are onto something” with similar ideas coming out
    Centralizing the state management
    Bringing the ideas to “non-functional programmers” with Redux in JavaScript
    PurelyFunctional.tv Newsletter
    Clojure
    Looking at trends and threads across multiple disciplines
    Clojure SYNC
    The Craft of Programming theme
    Zach Tellman
    The Elements Of Clojure
    George Kierstein
    Emily Ashley
    Career theme
    Rebecca Kinsella
    Elana Hashman
    Leiningen
    Baishampayan Ghose
    HelpShift
    Context theme
    Gerald Jay Sussman
    Will Byrd
    David Nolen
    Kim Crayton
    Discount code of `geekery` for 10% off registration
    What made Eric make the leap to put on a conference
    Clojure/west and Clojure/Conj being combined
    French Quarter
    Putting together a food guide for the conference
    Southern Food and Beverage Museum
    The New Orleans Hotel Collection
    Smaller more intimate time for after conference events
    Online talk about Clojure community being in decline
    Negative tone of discussions online
    “People don’t complain about strengths that much”
    Complaining being a sign of a healthy community
    Gossip being the way to determine the mores of the group
    “[The negatively talked about subject] is significant, […] that is the thing that is important”
    Upcoming projects from Eric
    Understanding Re-frame Video Course
    Upcoming talk at LambdUp
    Giving discounts for people where their country’s economy might not be as strong

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

    56 min
  • Functional Geekery Episode 116 - Radu Popescu

    In this episode I talk with Radu Popescu. We talk his introduction to software development, high performance C++, where functional ideas fit in with high performance C++, CernVM File System, Erlang, an overview of where Rust fits between functional languages and C++, and more.

    Our Guest, Radu Popescu

    radupopescu on Github

    @iradupopescu on Twitter
    https://radupopescu.net/

    Conference Announcements

    LambdUp, Prague’s biggest functional programming event of the year, will be taking place December 16th at MeetFactory in Prague. For more information and to register visit: https://www.lambdup.io/

    Clojure SYNC will be taking place in New Orleans on February 15th & 16th of 2018. For more information and to register visit: http://clojuresync.com/.

    LambdaDays 2018 will be taking place February 22nd and 23rd in Kraków, Poland. For more information, and to register, visit http://www.lambdadays.org/.

    BOB 2018 is coming up in Berlin, Germany on February 23rd, 2018. For more information, and to register, visit http://bobkonf.de/.

    :clojureD will be following BOB 2018 in Berlin, Germany on February 24th, 2018. For more information, and to register, visit http://clojured.de/.

    Lambda Squared is a new conference taking place March 30th in Knoxville, Tennessee. For more information, and to register, visit https://www.lambda-squared.com/.

    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 [@3:00]

    About Radu

    Cern
    CernVM File System
    How Radu came into software development
    C++
    Functional Programming Principles in Scala by Martin Odersky on Coursera
    High Performance computing with C++
    Fortran
    TensorFlow
    What standards of C++ Radu was writing against
    Lambdas and Higher Order Functions being introduced into C++
    How some of the functional ideas fit into high performance C++
    C++ Template Language as a purely functional language
    CernVM File System
    Linux FUSE (Filesystem in Userspace)
    Terabytes of new software every day at CERN
    Content Addressed Storage
    Field-programmable Gate Array
    Using Erlang for a publication system
    Moving from Command Line based to Server based
    “Let it Crash” approach in Erlang
    What the Erlang based Repository Gateway solves
    The different roles the Repository Gateway fulfills
    Key takeaways from using Erlang for the Repository Gateway
    C++ Inter-op story
    Statically-typed C++ versus Dynamic Erlang
    Dialyzer
    OTP
    Functional Composition and Immutable Values for ease of debugging
    Erlang QuickCheck
    John Hughes
    Quviq
    RapidCheck
    Rust
    Where Rust fits in between C++ and the functional family of languages
    RAII
    Algebraic Data Types
    Why one might pick Rust over Haskell, OCaml, or other similar languages
    Wrapping C libraries with Rust, and wrapping Rust libraries with C
    CodeMesh
    Radu’s Talk page at CodeMesh
    CernVM Documentation
    CernVM 10th Anniversary Workshop

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

    50 min
  • Functional Geekery Episode 115 - Sam Williams

    In this episode I talk with Sam Williams. We talk his introduction to programming, moving to web-development with Erlang, the HydrOS project, the Archain project, and more.

    Our Guest, Sam Williams

    samcamwilliams on Github

    @ArchainTeam on Twitter

    Conference Announcements

    Clojure SYNC will be taking place in New Orleans on February 15th & 16th of 2018. For more information and to register visit: http://clojuresync.com/.

    LambdaDays 2018 will be taking place February 22nd and 23rd in Kraków, Poland. For more information, and to register, visit http://www.lambdadays.org/.

    BOB 2018 is coming up in Berlin, Germany on February 23rd, 2018. For more information, and to register, visit http://bobkonf.de/.

    :clojureD will be following BOB 2018 in Berlin, Germany on February 24th, 2018. For more information, and to register, visit http://clojured.de/.

    Lambda Squared is a new conference taking place March 30th in Knoxville, Tennessee. For more information, and to register, visit https://www.lambda-squared.com/.

    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 [@2:25]

    About Sam

    The University of Kent
    How Sam was introduced to programming
    Visual Basic
    PHP
    Writing a Meta-News analysis site
    How Sam first came across Erlang
    Exposure to Lisp and Scheme
    Getting started in Erlang
    Learn You Some Erlang for Great Good by Fred Herbert
    Programming Erlang (2nd Edition) by Joe Armstrong
    “If you want to really learn a language, you have to have some sufficiently difficult task, to make you engage with it properly”
    Getting a deeper understanding of the nuances of Erlang
    Building a web technology company on Erlang
    Yaws
    ehtml
    Moving to write Erlang to run on Unikernerl as a final project
    Unikernels
    Xen
    How a final project works
    Richard Mortier
    Migrating the Erlang Virtual Machine to run on bare metal
    HydrOS
    Distributed Operating System
    What is the goal of the HydrOS project
    Idea of process mobility across devices
    Archain
    What is a block-chain
    What is Archain
    How block-chain differs from Git or CRDTs
    Proof-of-work
    How Archain works to incentivize distribution of archive data
    What kinds of information does Archain hope to Archive
    Preventing the “Orwellian Memory Hole”
    Internet Archive
    Some of the limitations of the Internet Archive
    How Erlang fits with building a block-chain
    Simulating large networks
    Archain as a platform for writing distributed applications
    Sam’s talk at CodeMesh 2017
    Code BEAM STO 2018

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

    57 min
  • Functional Geekery Episode 114 - Fred Herbert

    In this episode I talk with Fred Herbert. We talk his introduction to Erlang, making languages accessible to the community, productionization as a phase of software, property testing, we wrap up with a tease of how “Everything is Terrible”, and much more.

    Our Guest, Fred Herbert

    @mononcqc on Twitter

    https://ferd.ca/

    Conference Announcements

    Clojure SYNC will be taking place in New Orleans on February 15th & 16th of 2018. For more information and to register visit: http://clojuresync.com/.

    LambdaDays 2018 will be taking place February 22nd and 23rd in Kraków, Poland. For more information, and to register, visit http://www.lambdadays.org/.

    BOB 2018 is coming up in Berlin, Germany on February 23rd, 2018. For more information, and to register, visit http://bobkonf.de/.

    :clojureD will be following BOB 2018 in Berlin, Germany on February 24th, 2018. For more information, and to register, visit http://clojured.de/.

    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 [@2:06]

    About Fred

    Learn You Some Erlang For Great Good
    Erlang in Anger
    How Fred got introduced Erlang
    Writing “Learn You Some Erlang” as he was learning Erlang
    Python
    Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs
    Structure of Erlang programs
    “The idea that there is no main function”
    OTP
    Go
    Links and Monitors in Erlang
    Erlang and OTP in Action
    “Difference in trying to prevent the errors compared to trying to deal with them”
    Making languages approachable and health of the community
    Fred’s Keynote at Erlang User Conference 2016
    Getting interaction with newcomers to remove hurdles to getting started in a language
    Thinking about the Productionization Phase of your software
    “A lot of the work you do is not writing it the first time, its really keeping the thing going after that”
    Smalltalk
    dtrace
    Importance of thinking about your people as a part of your system
    Conway’s Law
    Haskell
    Racket
    House M.D.
    Seeing your code as a piece of writing
    The importance of predictable code
    Programming in the Large and Programming in the Small
    Programming Paradigms for Dummies by Peter Van Roy
    Lasp
    Property Testing
    PropEr Testing.com
    “Most of the errors in the system are mistakes that I didn’t see coming”
    Haskell QuickCheck
    Erlang QuickCheck
    Hypothesis in Python
    PropEr
    Quviq
    Upcoming talk at CodeMesh
    Everything is Terrible
    SpawnFest
    This Week in Erlang

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

    1 hr 4 min
  • Functional Geekery Episode 113 - Oskar Wickström

    In this episode I talk with Oskar Wickström. We talk his introduction to software development, journey to functional programming, tooling, state machines and static typing, and more.

    Our Guest, Oskar Wickström

    @owickstrom on Twitter

    owickstrom on Github
    https://wickstrom.tech/

    Conference Announcements

    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/.

    Clojure SYNC will be taking place in New Orleans on February 15th & 16th of 2018. For more information and to register visit: http://clojuresync.com/.

    LambdaDays 2018 will be taking place February 22nd and 23rd in Kraków, Poland. For more information, and to register, visit http://www.lambdadays.org/.

    BOB 2018 is coming up in Berlin, Germany on February 23rd, 2018. For more informationa, and to register, visit http://bobkonf.de/.

    :clojureD will be following BOB 2018 in Berlin, Germany on February 24th, 2018. For more information, and to register, visit http://clojured.de/.

    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 [@2:35]

    About Oskar

    How Oskar moved from music to programming
    PHP for a band website
    What made software become more interesting to move into development
    WordPress
    What made to move to looking into other languages
    Object-Oriented Programming in PHP
    C# and .NET
    Java
    Scala
    Haskell
    “Absorbing every advice from people that I respected”
    How Oskar was exposed to Haskell
    Learn You A Haskell
    Programming Scala as Java, but with a better syntax
    What were the “Ah-Ha” moments when starting to learn Haskell
    Static-Dispatch in Haskell vs Dynamic-Dispatch in Java
    Implementing an Event Store
    Event Sourcing
    Making the move from Haskell in side projects to working in Haskell
    Functional JavaScript
    React
    Reactive Programming
    Implementing functional ideas from Haskell to JavaScript
    Giving mini-trainings on functional programming concepts
    Dual Feedback loop between play projects and applying to work problems
    First work project in Haskell
    Oden
    Go language
    PureScript
    Using a language to deliver small tooling for yourself
    Trying to use the best tooling
    How Oskar thinks about picking tooling
    The Unix Philosophy of “doing one thing and one thing well”
    Documentation
    Sphinx
    reStructuredText
    Hyper
    PureScript middleware like Express and Connect in Node.js
    Representing middleware as a state-machine verified by a type system
    Why run PureScript in a Node.js environment?
    “That’s a question I always get asked when people ask me about Hyper”
    Row Polymorphism
    Migrating an existing Node.js app to PureScript
    purerl
    Cowboy
    Hardy Jones mentioning purerl on Magic Read Along
    servant
    Overview of upcoming talk “Finite State Machines – Your Compiler Wants In”
    Idris
    “This is a very nice hammer, but you don’t want to apply it everywhere”
    CodeMesh
    Haskell eXchange 2018

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

    53 min
  • Functional Geekery Episode 112 - Micheal Sperber

    In this episode I talk with Micheal Sperber. We talk his introduction to programming and functional programming languages, important commonalities across languages, power of syntactic abstraction, teaching programming to beginners and experienced programmers, Concurrent ML, and more.

    Our Guest, Micheal Sperber

    @sperbsen on Twitter

    http://www.deinprogramm.de/sperber/

    Conference Announcements

    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/.

    Clojure SYNC will be taking place in New Orleans on February 15th & 16th of 2018. For more information and to register visit: http://clojuresync.com/.

    LambdaDays 2018 will be taking place February 22nd and 23rd in Kraków, Poland. For more information, and to register, visit http://www.lambdadays.org/.

    BOB 2018 is coming up in Berlin, Germany on February 23rd, 2018. For more informationa, and to register, visit http://bobkonf.de/.

    :clojureD will be following BOB 2018 in Berlin, Germany on February 24th, 2018. For more information, and to register, visit http://clojured.de/.

    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 [@3:03]

    About Micheal

    How Micheal got into software
    How Micheal’s interest in teaching related to his interest in software
    Micheal journey of learning different languages
    BASIC
    C
    Germany’s National Competition of Programmers for high school students
    Finding a community of people to learn from
    How Micheal came across functional programming
    LISP
    Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs
    Scheme
    Hope
    Miranda
    Haskell
    ML
    OCaml
    Clojure
    Erlang
    F#
    Scala
    Elixir
    What is the core that Micheal finds across functional languages
    Immutability
    Type Based Design (regardless of static or dynamic typed)
    Macros as the “feature wish” for all languages
    Hygienic Macros
    Power of a common, well known, syntactic abstraction
    What Micheal has found about teaching functional languages
    “Your students are different than you”
    “You have to put some distance between what you teach and what you love”
    Racket
    “You need to have languages designed for teaching, and tooling designed for teaching”
    Dr. Racket
    Commonality of teaching beginning programmers and teaching experienced professionals
    Common principles for teaching as starting points
    “Keep excitement out of it”
    Program by Design
    How to Design Programs
    Design Recipe
    Using types about your data to match information in your problem statement
    Lessons from taking the teachers’ excitement out of the curriculum
    “Here’s this thing, we don’t care if you love it or not, just do your thing”
    Letting the students get excited for themselves.
    Difference in thinking in types between dynamically and statically typed languages
    Concurrent ML
    Overview of similarity and differences in concurrency across functional programming languages
    Messages and immutable data
    Erlang process model for concurrency
    Overview of Concurrent ML
    Rendezvous
    Algebra of Rendezvous
    “It’s like Christmas when you pull it out of the box”
    Composition of Rendezvous across different concurrent mechanisms
    Wittgenstein “The limits of your language are the limits of your world”
    Going back to other concurrency mechanisms after knowing about Concurrent ML
    core.async
    Concurrent ML as a way of thinking
    Standard ML of New Jersey
    Extracting Concurrent ML concepts as a library
    Star
    Concurrent Programming in ML
    Concurrent ML as the best book on concurrent programming
    John Reppy Ph.D. thesis
    Concurrent ML book on covers multiple paradigms
    Mike’s upcoming CodeMesh presentation
    International Conference on Functional Programming
    Funktionale Programmierung
    BOB Konf

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

    53 min

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