Happy Path Programming

By Bruce Eckel & James WardTechnology

Happy Path Programming episodes

July 07, 2024#101 Effects and Local-First with Johannes Schickling
Johannes Schickling (@schickling | schickling.dev⁠) gets us up-to-speed on Effect, the ZIO-inspired Effect System for TypeScript, and the Local-First movement. Resources:
Local-First Podcast: www.localfirst.fm

Ink & Switch's Local-First Essay: www.inkandswitch.com/local-first

Effect (TypeScript Library): effect.website

Riffle research project: riffle.systems

LiveStore: github.com/livestorejs

Overtone: overtone.pro
Related Episodes:
#81 TypeScript & Effects with Michael Arnaldi

#62 Musing About Local-First Sync & CRDTs with Mark McGranaghan
Discuss this episode: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠discord.gg/XVKD2uPKyF
1 hr 14 min
June 18, 2024 #100 Thinking about Thinking with Diana Montalion
Diana Montalion teaches us about Systems Thinking and why it matters for those of us building software. Diana is founder of ⁠Mentrix⁠, which teaches "systems architecture skills for an increasingly complex world."
Pre-Order Diana's book: Learning Systems Thinking: Essential Nonlinear Skills and Practices for Software Professionals

Discuss this episode: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠discord.gg/XVKD2uPKyF
1 hr 32 min
June 10, 2024#99 The Agile Illusion with Trond Hjorteland
We chat with Trond Hjorteland about Agile and why it hasn't led to successful outcomes in many traditional organizations.
Mentioned and related resources:
Trond & João Rosa's training on Agile + DP2

Open Systems Theory

LinkedIn Group for Open Systems Theory

More material on Open Systems Theory

Resource List from Trond

Some of Trond's recorded talks
56 min
April 21, 2024 #98 Continuous Deployment with Valentina Servile
We chat with Valentina Servile about her upcoming book on Continuous Deployment and reducing the risks to keeping HEAD not just always deployable, but automatically deployed to production.
Book for preorder on Amazon: Continuous Deployment: Enable Faster Feedback, Safer Releases, and More Reliable Software
Discuss this episode: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠discord.gg/XVKD2uPKyF
1 hr 7 min
April 05, 2024#97 The Pkl Configuration Language with Philip Hölzenspies
We chat with Philip Hölzenspies, one of the maintainers of the new Pkl configuration language (pkl-lang.org).
Resources:
James' Pkl for GitHub Actions: github.com/jamesward/pklgha
Discuss this episode: ⁠⁠⁠⁠discord.gg/XVKD2uPKyF
1 hr 15 min
March 22, 2024#96 Compassionate Coding with April Wensel
We chat with April Wensel, founder of Compassionate Coding, about helping programmers bring more compassion to themselves and others.
Resources:
Confessions of a Recovering Jerk Programmer

Marshall Rosenberg - Nonviolent Communication

Kristin Neff - Self-Compassion

Karen Armstrong - Twelve Steps to a Compassionate Life

UC Berkeley Greater Good Science Center definition of compassion

Oren Jay Sofer's Needs & Feelings Lists
Discuss this episode: ⁠⁠⁠discord.gg/XVKD2uPKyF
1 hr
March 10, 2024 #95 21st Century Databases with Gwen Shapira
We chat with Gwen Shapira, co-founder of Nile, about her journey to creating a virtualized, serverless Postgres database service. We also dive into the challenges with traditional data architectures and approaches like ORMs.
Discuss this episode: ⁠⁠discord.gg/XVKD2uPKyF
1 hr 1 min
February 16, 2024 #94 Build Ops & Developer Productivity With Trisha Gee
We chat with Trisha Gee about Test Driven Development (TDD), flaky tests, ops & observability for builds, and developer productivity.
Mentioned TDD Article:
The beautiful theory of TDD and the reality check of practice

Discuss this episode: ⁠discord.gg/XVKD2uPKyF
1 hr 8 min
January 19, 2024#93 Nerd Sniping via the 1B Row Challenge with Gunnar Morling
When Gunnar Morling announced the 1 Billion Row Challenge a few weeks ago, he had no idea it'd go crazy viral.
Resources:
Challenge details: www.morling.dev/blog/one-billion-row-challenge

Rust 1BRC Blog: aminediro.com/posts/billion_row/

Cliff Click's implementation walkthrough: www.youtube.com/watch?v=NJNIbgV6j-Y

James' very slow Scala ZIO implementation: github.com/jamesward/1brc-zio/blob/main/src/main/scala/Main.scala
Discuss this episode: discord.gg/XVKD2uPKyF
1 hr
January 12, 2024#92 Virtual Threads Looming with Adam Warski
We chat with Adam Warski about Loom, Virtual Threads, and his Loom-based Scala library, Ox, for structured concurrency & Go-Like Channels.
Referenced articles & code:
Ox EasyRacer Client

Go statement considered harmful

Go-like selects using jox channels in Java

Limits of Loom's performance

Fast and Scalable Channels in Kotlin Coroutines
Discuss this episode: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://discord.gg/nPa76qF
1 hr 8 min