Happy Path Programming

By Bruce Eckel & James WardTechnology

Happy Path Programming episodes

December 22, 2023 #91 'Tis The Season For Reducing Gradle Friction
Announcing Graboo, a collection of experiments to reduce friction with Gradle. Repo:
https://github.com/jamesward/graboo

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1 hr 8 min
December 15, 2023 #90 The Best Manager with Sushila Sahay
Most of us have managers but they aren't always great. We chat with James' best manager, Sushila Sahay, about what makes her such a great manager. We also dive a bit into open source business models since Sushila has deep experience in that realm.
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45 min
December 08, 2023 #89 Algebraic Effects with Kyo (Flavio Brasil)
We learn about Algebraic Effects with the Scala library Kyo ( getkyo.io) from the creator, Flavio Brasil.
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1 hr 8 min
October 20, 2023#88 Developers Thriving In the Flow with Arty Starr
Arty Starr is a PhD student and entrepreneur focused on helping developers thrive. We chat about her research on developer momentum and ways that developers can find joy through more time in the flow state.
Referenced resources:
SpringOne Talk

Arty's Idea Flow Book

FlowInsight
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1 hr 16 min
October 06, 2023 #87 Diving Deeper into Wasm with Zalim Bashorov
Zalim Bashorov (@bashorov) works on Kotlin/Wasm at JetBrains and answers our many questions about Wasm, GC, the Component Model, and other future proposals.
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1 hr 8 min
September 29, 2023 #86 The Journey to OCaml with Sabine
Sabine went from acedemia and a PhD in formal methods, to Python, Elm, Haskell, and now OCaml. We chat about this journey and some of the reasons why OCaml is an awesome modern language.
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1 hr 11 min
September 15, 2023 #85 Scala, Rust, and Durable Computing with John De Goes
Our chat with John De Goes starts with his Scala & Rust journeys, then goes into Golem Cloud, a serverless durable computing platform underpinned by Wasm, and ends with a discussion about whether business applications really need parallelism.
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1 hr 20 min
September 06, 2023 #84 Inevitable Failure with Dormain Drewitz
We chat with Dormain Drewitz about failure and reliability. Ironically our recording software crashed near the end of the episode but we recovered and wrapped things up.
Referenced Article: 10 Years of Failure Friday at PagerDuty: Fostering Resilience, Learning and Reliability
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1 hr 10 min
August 21, 2023 #83 Rust Developer Retreat & Structured Concurrency
At the Rust Developer Retreat we explored Structured Concurrency with Tokio. With the attendees we chat about our projects and things learned, liked, and disliked about Rust. Then dive into Structured Concurrency generally and specific implementations.
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59 min
July 07, 2023 #82 The Future of Programming
Bruce and James chat about the future of programming.
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1 hr 13 min