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Functional Geekery episodes

  • Functional Geekery Episode 111 - Stian Veum Møllersen

    In this episode I talk with Stian Veum Møllersen. We talk his introduction to programming, exploring programming languages, “Perlis Languages”, Concatenative Languages, Creative Programming, and more.

    Our Guest, Stian Veum Møllersen

    @mollerse on Twitter

    mollerse on Github

    Conference Announcements

    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/.

    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/.

    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 [@2:42]

    About Stian

    How Stian got into programming
    Java
    Starting out as a consulting
    “I didn’t see programming as fun; it was more of a means to an end”
    Discovering the fun of programming through front end development
    ClojureScript
    Elm
    PureScript
    Prolog
    Michael Fogus’ Perlis Languages post
    Eifell
    Joy (mirror)
    What about web development sparked the excitement about programming
    Angus Croll – Break all the rules
    Jed Schmidt browserver: a node.js HTTP server, in your browse
    What sparked the excitement about learning about different languages
    “I wanted to understand how we arrived at this point in history”
    “If you take a framework to its ultimate conclusion you end up with a language anyway”
    Evolution of language learning exploration
    Java and Python in University
    Functions as Values in JavaScript
    Clojure
    Exposure to the idea of Language Families
    Lisp
    Racket
    Scheme
    F#
    Standard ML
    Programming Languages Coursera Course by Dan Grossman
    Prolog
    “A language even stranger than Prolog”
    First exposure Concatenative Languages
    Difference between Stack-based and Concatenative Languages
    Joy (mirror)
    Experience when starting to learn Joy
    The balance between declarative versus imperative in Concatenative Languages
    Difficulty of just programming your way to a solution without thinking about the problem
    Thinking Forth
    How Concatenative Languages change your thinkings
    Focus on Factoring in Thinking Forth
    Algol
    Cobol
    C++
    Smalltalk
    Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code
    Stian’s upcoming presentation at CodeMesh 2017
    How Creative Programming works well with Concatenative Languages
    Recommendations on getting started with Concatenative Languages
    Read-Eval-Print-λove
    Joy
    Factor
    Flatmap Oslo 2017 presentation (slides)
    ait
    turtle-ait
    FARM 2017 presentation (slides)
    #concatenative on FreeNode
    Concatenative Languages wiki

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

    53 min
  • Functional Geekery Episode 110 - Kiwamu Okabe

    In this episode I talk with Kiwamu Okabe. We talk his introduction to writing software for hardware; exposure to functional programming; running Haskell, ATS, and VeriFast verification on bare metal hardware; and more.

    Our Guest, Kiwamu Okabe

    http://metasepi.org/

    Conference Announcements

    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/.

    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/.

    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 [@2:41]

    About Kiwamu

    Ricoh
    Functional IoT
    How Kiwamu got into software
    BSD
    Transitioning from OS development to hardware programming
    What made Kiwamu want to try running functional languages on bare metal hardware
    Haskell
    How Kiwamu was first exposed to Haskell
    OCaml
    Scheme
    Why Haskell appealed to run on hardware
    Glasgow Haskell Compiler
    QuickCheck
    First pass at applying Haskell to bare metal hardware
    Jhc Haskell Compiler
    ATS
    Experience with ATS on bare metal hardware
    ChibiOS/RT and ATS
    VeriFast
    What the social aspect of functional languages running on bare metal looks like
    Balance of ATS vs VeriFast
    seL4
    What the technical aspect of functional languages running on bare metal looks like

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

    35 min
  • Functional Geekery Episode 109 - Zach Kessin

    In this episode I talk with Zach Kessin. We talk his transition to using Elm for front-end web development, using it with Erlang back-ends, his goal to help grow the community around Elm, and more.

    Our Guest, Zach Kessin

    @zkessin on Twitter

    Pain Free Web Development YouTube Channel

    Conference Announcements

    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.

    Celebrate the 10th anniversary of the release of Clojure October the 12th – 14th at the Clojure/Conj in Baltimore, Maryland. Visit http://2017.clojure-conj.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/.

    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/.

    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 [@3:22]

    What Zach has been up to in since Episode 4

    Erlang
    Elm
    Mostly Erlang
    What put Elm on Zach’s radar
    Perl
    Going from loan calculator to large complicated applications
    CoffeeScript
    ClojureScript
    Friendliness of “you are viewing out of date version” message on package documentation
    The Elm Architecture
    Initial hump of Elm looking very different than JavaScript
    Scheme
    Prolog
    Only handful of ways to crash an Elm program vs a JavaScript program
    “Like superheros, [programming] languages have origin stories”
    Thinking in types in Elm compared to JavaScript compared to Erlang
    “Level 1 Elm is ‘Yay! Types!”
    “Level 2 Elm […] is how can we use the type system as a design tool”
    QuickCheck
    Curry-Howard Correspondence
    Haskell
    Idris
    Ability to get runtime errors in Haskell
    Upcoming Elm in Motion video course
    Pain Free Web Development
    Using Elm with Erlang
    WebMachine
    Cowboy
    Parse Transform library in Erlang
    JavaScript interop via “ports”
    JSON Decoders and Decoders in Elm
    Problems around silent errors
    MySQL and column value truncation in non Strict Mode
    Handling JSON decoder parse errors
    Result type
    HTTP Errors as a type in Elm
    Being forced to think about errors and how to handle them
    “Suddenly a 12-hour debugging session has become 12 seconds of fix a typo”
    Bootstrap CSS Elm Package
    The Elm compiler as the best pair you could have sitting next to you
    Making Impossible States Impossible
    Pain Free Web Development YouTube Channel
    Leave comments as suggestions for upcoming topics
    Elm Weekly Training Course
    _FunctionalG12_ discount code to get it at $12/month instead of $15/month
    Zach’s goal of helping building up the community around Elm
    NoRedInk
    Building the business case for using Elm

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

    52 min
  • Functional Geekery Episode 108 - David Christiansen

    In this episode I talk with David Christiansen. We talk his introduction to functional programming, research in dependent types, Idris, Nuprl and LFC traits, work to add dependent types to macro-expansion in Racket, and much, much more.

    Our Guest, David Christiansen

    @d_christiansen on Twitter

    http://davidchristiansen.dk/

    Conference Announcements

    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.

    Celebrate the 10th anniversary of the release of Clojure October the 12th – 14th at the Clojure/Conj in Baltimore, Maryland. Visit http://2017.clojure-conj.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/.

    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/.

    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 [@3:22]

    About David

    Idris
    Indiana University Bloomington
    Racket
    Type Driven Development in Idris
    The Type Theory Podcast
    Dan Friedman on Functional Geekery
    David’s introduction to programming and computers
    MS-DOS GW-BASIC
    Major in Philosophy with Minor in Computer Science
    What put functional programming on David’s radar
    Lisp
    Haskell
    A Gentle Introduction to Haskell
    Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs
    PLTScheme, now Racket
    Internship doing I.T.
    QBasic
    C
    Perl
    Smalltalk
    David’s grad school work
    Exposure to Idris at St Andrew’s summer school
    General ML exposure around Copenhagen
    False dichotomy between industry and “academic” languages
    Progression to push into dependent types
    “Part of my job description at the time was: learn about interesting things”
    The Type Theory Podcast
    Software Foundations
    Adam Chlipala on Functional Geekery
    Dependent Types as a aesthetic thing
    Type Driven Development
    Interactive programming environments from the 80’s
    “Let the computer do what the computer is good at, which is the details”
    Nuprl
    Jon Sterling’s jonPRL and RedPRL
    Types as predicates that describe behavior
    Agda
    Coq
    Typed Racket
    Using Racket as a proof language for Nuprl type system
    Logic for Computable Functions by Dana S. Scott
    Robin Milner
    Edinburgh LCF
    ML
    Running LCF style proofs in Racket macro-expansion
    Hackett
    cur
    miniKanren
    µKanren
    Scribble
    Slideshow
    video
    Resources to get started understanding dependent types
    Software Foundations
    Upcoming _Little Schemer_ family book on dependent types with Dan Friedman
    Little Schemer
    Upcoming talks previewing book at RacketCon and CodeMesh
    Oregon Programming Languages Summer School videos
    Suggestions for a title in Little Schemer tradition

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

    1 hr 3 min
  • Functional Geekery Episode 107 - Julie Moronuki

    In this episode I talk with Julie Moronuki. We catch up about “Haskell Book”, cover the upcoming Joy of Haskell, lessons learned teaching Haskell in user groups, other projects, linguistics, and more.

    Our Guest, Julie Moronuki

    @argumatronic on Twitter

    GinBaby on Github
    http://argumatronic.com/
    Joy of Haskell
    @joyofhaskell on Twitter

    Conference Announcements

    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.

    elm-conf is returning to St. Louis on September 28, 2017 for a day of learning, speaking, and connecting with the Elm language community. For more information and to register visit http://www.elm-conf.us/.

    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.

    Celebrate the 10th anniversary of the release of Clojure October the 12th – 14th at the Clojure/Conj in Baltimore, Maryland. Visit http://2017.clojure-conj.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/.

    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/.

    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 [@5:19]

    About Julie

    Julie on Episode 19
    Haskell Programming from first principles
    Update to “Haskell Book” since last time Julie and Chris were guests
    Goal of being precise in the Haskell Book
    Resetting pre-conceived baggage
    Lambda Calculus as the first chapter
    “I wish people would just read the chapter and let go of their preconceived notions of what it will be”
    Teaching Haskell to her son to teach math
    CodeWorld
    Chris Smith
    “Baby’s First Category Theory” book
    Kids ability to pick up abstract ideas
    Teaching Haskell in user groups
    Joy of Haskell
    Chris Martin
    Origin of Joy of Haskell
    Introduction to some of the advanced topics you might hear about in Haskell
    Lens library
    Opal Eye library
    Getting to be comfortable reading types
    What made Julie decide to write the second book
    “Since my mission is to get more people to enjoy Haskell, to love it the way I do”
    “Whatever they want to do, I want to help them do it in Haskell”
    “Learning a language isn’t hard, it’s all the other stuff”
    Separating out the pure from the impure
    Nix and NixOS
    Looking back at linguistics and how it might tie to category theory
    Types should make illegal states irrepresentable
    Noam Chomsky
    Goal of generating only legal sentences from abstract rules
    The goal of trying to find a universal abstract pattern to generate all the legal phrase structures of a language
    Shower thought as verbs as TypeClasses
    Giving an upcoming talk at Haskell eXchange 2017
    hands-on-haskell-meetups project
    Upcoming Roguelike project in Haskell
    Tips for evaluating whether to write a monad tutorial
    Monad Tutorial in JavaScript
    Making the target audience explicit
    “Every tutorial should start with ‘You don’t need to understand monads to do IO'”

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

    59 min
  • Functional Geekery Episode 106 - Reid Evans

    In this episode I talk with Reid Evans. We talk his introduction to functional programming, F#, functional JavaScript, Functional Knox, and much more.

    Our Guest, Reid Evans

    @reidnevans on Twitter

    reidev275 on Github
    @FunctionalKnox on Twitter
    Functional Knox
    Reid’s YouTube Channel

    Conference Announcements

    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.

    elm-conf is returning to St. Louis on September 28, 2017 for a day of learning, speaking, and connecting with the Elm language community. For more information and to register visit http://www.elm-conf.us/.

    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.

    Celebrate the 10th anniversary of the release of Clojure October the 12th – 14th at the Clojure/Conj in Baltimore, Maryland. Visit http://2017.clojure-conj.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/.

    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/.

    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 [@5:18]

    About Reid

    Delphi
    .NET
    What set the stage for first exposure for functional programming
    CodeStock
    Rachel Reese
    Rachel Reese’s episode of Functional Geekery
    F#
    Stop Writing Classes by Jack Diederich
    Practical Functional Programming by James Coglin
    What set the stage for F#
    KCDC
    Interface Segregation Principle
    Scott Wlaschin
    Scott Wlaschin on Functional Geekery Episode 66 and Episode 98
    Railway Oriented Programming
    Making the sale for folding F# back into work
    Type Providers
    Sharing the ideas of functional programming with co-workers
    PHP
    “Wow, you just don’t have that many bugs anymore”
    Moving to functional programming in JavaScript from F#
    Professor Frisby’s Mostly Adequate Guide to Functional Programming
    Ramda
    ramda-fantasy
    Lining up the shapes of data
    Haskell
    PureScript
    Reid’s presentation at LambdaConf
    “It’s a much bigger ocean in JavaScript”
    Introducing functional programming using JavaScript back into teams
    Expanding functional programming concepts to broader communities
    CodeMash
    Tribes by Seth Godin
    Functional Knox
    Common pain points that help sell functional programming
    Reid Evan’s YouTube channel talking functional programming in JavaScript
    Planning an upcoming functional programming conference in Knoxville, Tennessee
    Vision for what the conference might look like
    “If we have 500 [people] we have to drastically change our ideas”
    If you are interested in Functional Knox remotely reach out

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

    58 min
  • Functional Geekery Episode 105 - David Koontz

    In this episode I talk with David Koontz. We talk his introduction to functional programming, F#, Haskell, community building, the LambdaCast, and more.

    Our Guest, David Koontz

    @dkoontz on Twitter

    LambdaCast
    @lambdacast on Twitter

    Conference Announcements

    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.

    elm-conf is returning to St. Louis on September 28, 2017 for a day of learning, speaking, and connecting with the Elm language community. For more information and to register visit http://www.elm-conf.us/.

    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.

    Celebrate the 10th anniversary of the release of Clojure October the 12th – 14th at the Clojure/Conj in Baltimore, Maryland. Visit http://2017.clojure-conj.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/.

    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/.

    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 [@5:09]

    About David

    LambdaCast
    How David got into software development
    Starting in I.T. and moving towards game programming
    First exposure to functional programming
    Java
    Python
    Ruby
    Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs
    SICP Lecture Videos
    Being unsure of how to apply functional programming ideas in game programming
    “Everything was harder than it should be”
    C#
    F#
    Real World Functional Programming
    Haskell
    Elm
    What clicked when understanding _Real World Functional Programming_
    LINQ
    Trying to apply F# back to game development and day-to-day experience
    Unity
    Takeaways from trying to apply functional ideas back to C#
    RobotArms
    Pipeline operators and chaining
    Moving from F# to Haskell
    Haskell Programming from first principles
    Learn You Some Haskell
    Bouncing off Haskell and landing on Elm
    Retrying Haskell after Elm
    Trying to bring Elm to day-to-day work
    Electron
    GitKraken
    Flow
    TypeScript
    PureScript
    Bringing functional ideas back into the community
    Lunch and learns
    Meetups
    Lessons learned from the lunch and learns vs meetups
    Building something as a group in the monthly meetup
    Elm as front-end and Haskell as back-end languages
    Maybes vs Nulls
    Not having anything to hold onto when talking about different concepts
    Response about having different level of experience between hosts
    Advice for sharing your learnings as you progress
    “If you knew any more, you wouldn’t fill this important voice on the podcast”
    Aiming for a small, concise, irreducible version of an explanation
    Desert Code Camp
    “If you thinking of doing [a functional programming podcast] I want to lie to you and tell you it’s no work at all”
    Going to where people are
    Audience breadth of JavaScript or C#
    Idris
    Advice for community outreach
    “Realize nobody can be an expert in everything”
    Haskell Pyramid
    Resources for getting started in functional programming
    Professor Frisby’s Mostly Adequate Guide to Functional Programming
    Ramda
    Sanctuary
    lodash
    lodash/fp
    FP Chat Slack community
    Upcoming appearances
    LambdaConf 2018
    MoonConf
    #lambdacast channel on FP Chat Slack community

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

    1 hr 8 min
  • Functional Geekery Episode 104 - Debasish Ghosh

    In this episode I talk with Debasish Ghosh. We talk his introduction to Scala, domain modeling, lawful abstractions, extracting algebraic patterns from a code base, and more.

    Our Guest, Debasish Ghosh

    https://debasishg.blogspot.com/

    @debasishg on Twitter

    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.

    elm-conf is returning to St. Louis on September 28, 2017 for a day of learning, speaking, and connecting with the Elm language community. For more information and to register visit http://www.elm-conf.us/.

    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/.

    LambdaDays 2018 will be taking place February 22nd and 23rd in Kraków, Poland. For more information, and to register, visit http://www.lambdadays.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 [@5:12]

    About Debasish

    C++
    Java
    Ruby
    Python
    Scala
    Lightbend
    Spark
    Kafka
    Setting the stage for discovering Scala
    Spring
    Hibernate
    Unification of object-oriented and functional paradigms
    Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs
    Scalaz
    Haskell
    Cats
    Scheme
    Scala bringing a statically typed language with higher-order functions
    IntelliJ IDEA
    Generating getters and setters as the way you do enterprise development
    Setting the stage for domain modeling
    Domain Driven Design by Eric Evans
    Bounded Context
    “Domain model is possibly the most important artifact in the life-cycle of a project”
    DSLs in Action
    Why Functional Programming Matters by John Hughes
    Functional Modules and how they relate to Bounded Contexts
    First reaction Scala
    Starting in Scala by writing tests
    Design Patterns in Dynamic Programming presentation by Peter Norvig
    Bridge and Strategy patterns as higher-order functions
    First encounter with Scalaz
    Algebraic Design
    Monoid as a design pattern in functional programming
    “Use the least powerful abstraction that applies to your use case”
    How algebraic types work in Scala
    Money as a Monoid
    Importance of Lawful Abstractions
    Domain models, Algebraic laws and Unit tests
    Mining your codebase for Algebraic patterns
    Refining abstractions to less powerful abstractions after initial identification
    References to where to understand the different algebraic types
    Typeclassopedia
    Functional Programming in Scala
    Functional and Reactive Domain Modeling
    Rúnar’s Episode of Functional Geekery
    Haskell productivity pyramid
    Functional and Reactive Domain Modeling
    Functional Conf
    India Erlang & Elixir Factory lite
    Scala eXchange 2017

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

    1 hr 2 min
  • Functional Geekery Episode 103 - Justin Schneck

    In this episode I talk with Justin Schneck. We talk embedded Erlang and Elixir with the Nerves Project, where Nerves fits in the landscape of embedded systems, prototyping vs deployment, and much, much more.

    Our Guest, Justin Schneck

    http://mobileoverlord.com/

    @mobileoverlord on Twitter
    mobileoverlord on Github
    Nerves Project
    @NervesProject on Twitter

    Conference Announcements

    Elixir.LDN will be taking place on August 17th. To help encourage inclusion and diversity 30 Free Scholarship places are available. Visit http://www.elixir.london/ to find out more and register.

    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.

    elm-conf is returning to St. Louis on September 28, 2017 for a day of learning, speaking, and connecting with the Elm language community. For more information and to register visit http://www.elm-conf.us/.

    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 [@4:53]

    About Justin

    Elixir
    Phoenix Framework
    Justin’s desire to start his motorcycle from his phone
    Arduino
    Ecto
    Microsoft TDS Driver in Ecto
    The Road to 2 Million Websocket Connections in Phoenix
    Setting the foundation for the actor model from embedded systems
    Raspberry Pi
    Raspbian
    Erlang Ale
    Nerves Project
    Justin’s introduction to Nerves
    Frank Hunleth
    Garth Hitchens
    Rosepoint
    “Why can’t I just run a Raspberry Pi”
    Nerves as suite of helper libraries
    Elixir Ale
    Nerves as tool to build deployment images
    Ability to get minimal opt-in package images
    Creating a meal from a grocery kitchen versus at home
    Buildroot
    What might deployment to production look like
    ErlInit
    BeagleBone Black
    LinkIt Smart
    “Anything you can do in Buildroot you can essentially turn into a composable Nerves system.”
    “Microcomputers” vs microcontrollers in the Nerves world
    Hard real time constraints in Arduino vs soft real time requirements
    Nerves.UART
    MQTT
    EMQ
    Le Tote
    Key factors Elixir is good at for embedded systems
    Wendy Smoak building a cat feeder in Nerves
    Bootloader
    SystemRegistry
    Booting to Erlang/Elixir as process-zero
    Dynamic configuration in Nerves
    Elixir on Nerves on Lego EV3 brick
    Le Tote kiosk on Raspberry Pi or x86
    Call to action to get started in Nerves
    “Blinking lights as the Hello World of hardware”
    Nerves on HexDocs
    Nerves Examples
    Pi Zero W
    Nerves.Firmware.SSH
    “Don’t be afraid to do things that have already been done, just for the experience of knowing how to get those things accomplished”
    Where to share one’s projects and experiences
    #Nerves in Elixir Lang Slack
    Elixir Forum
    Erlang Factory San Francisco 2017
    Erlang User Conference 2017
    ElixirConf
    LeToteTeam on Github
    Thank You to the community

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

    1 hr 3 min
  • Functional Geekery Episode 102 - Brian Hicks

    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/

    The JSON Survival Kit – Use code `geekery` for 10% off
    @brianhicks on Twitter
    brianhicks on Github

    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
    Go
    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.

    55 min

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