Happy Path Programming

By Bruce Eckel & James WardTechnology

Happy Path Programming episodes

May 13, 2022 #61 Compassionate Communities with Tonya Moore
Tonya Moore has been helping build developer communities for years. We discuss how to deal with jerks and the importance of building on a foundation of compassion.
Referenced blog from Bill Venners: https://www.artima.com/articles/compassion-in-our-community
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1 hr 5 min
April 12, 2022 #60 Kotlin Language Design with Roman Elizarov
Kotlin Language designer Roman Elizarov, joins us to talk about finding the right balances when designing Kotlin.
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1 hr 3 min
March 29, 2022 #59 Goetz's Law, Dhall, and Nix (With Gabriella Gonzalez)
Gabriella Gonzalez joins to teach us about the Dhall configuration language they created and Nix.
References:
The Dhall configuration language
Henk: a typed intermediate language
Pants Build Tool
The Purely Functional Software Deployment Model
Haskell for all: How to use NixOS for lightweight integration tests
How to market Haskell to a mainstream programmer
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1 hr
March 20, 2022 #58 Scala 3: Significant indentation and other things we love (With Martin Odersky)
Martin Odersky, creator of Scala, joins us to chat about Scala, Effects, Exceptions, Experiments, and other Exciting stuff.
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1 hr 9 min
March 15, 2022 #57 Technology Trade Offs: Python & Kotlin (With Matt Anger)
We explore with Matt Anger a blog he wrote about migrating from Python to Kotlin and the trade offs engineering teams make when deciding which technologies to use.
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1 hr 1 min
March 10, 2022 #56 Feedback Loops & Software is Like Surgery (With Daniel Terhorst-North)
We explore with Daniel Terhorst-North how social and technical feedback loops can help us build the right thing faster.
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1 hr 27 min
March 03, 2022 #55 Apache Kafka - Like Functional Programming but for Data (With Anna McDonald)
We chat with the Kafka Duchess, Anna McDonald, about Apache Kafka, CQRS, Event Sourcing, and of-course Functional Programming.
Note: There was a bit of echo for a few minutes but we did resolve it around 8 minutes in.
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1 hr 9 min
February 05, 2022 #54 Flix: Designing a principled programming language with Magnus Madsen
Magnus Madsen, language designer for the Flix programming language, joins us to talk about the driving principles and innovative features of the language.
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1 hr 17 min
January 21, 2022 #53 Open Source: Free as in Hot Dogs (With Donald Fischer)
Open Source is an essential foundation for pretty much everything. How do we fund it appropriately? What do we do about Log4Shell-types of issues? Donald Fischer of Tidelift joins us to discuss these economic and human issues.
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1 hr 2 min
January 14, 2022 #52 Reveling in Nonsense With Josh Long
A stroll through 20 years of Spring with Josh Long. Also: Bruce, James, and Josh announce their new Ska band.
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1 hr 23 min