Happy Path Programming
By Bruce Eckel & James Ward
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No-frills discussions between Bruce Eckel and James Ward about programming, what it is, and what it should be.
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#119 FP Reaches the Masses with Paul Snively
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Jan 24, 2026 |
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#118 Effects of 2025
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Jan 02, 2026 |
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#117 Special Episode: Entering Computer Science as a New Graduate
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Nov 18, 2025 |
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#116 Infrastructure as Effects with Sam Goodwin
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Sep 19, 2025 |
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#115 More Python Type Checking! Pyrefly with Aaron Pollack & Steven Troxler
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Aug 11, 2025 |
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#114 ty: Fast Python Type Checking with Carl Meyer
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Jul 25, 2025 |
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#113 Graph & RAG with Jennifer Reif
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Jul 21, 2025 |
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#112 AI Agents Get More 9's with Rod Johnson
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Jul 02, 2025 |
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#111 Wasm & MCP with Steve Manuel
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Apr 10, 2025 |
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#110 Unlocking Developer Productivity with Justin Reock
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Apr 09, 2025 |
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#109 AI, LLMs, and MCP with Lize Raes
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Feb 21, 2025 |
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#108 Winter Tech Forum and Current Projects
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Jan 30, 2025 |
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#107 The Joy of Programming with Dave Thomas
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Dec 30, 2024 |
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#106 Agile Organizations with Jutta Eckstein
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Dec 03, 2024 |
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#105 Nathan Sobo's Pursuit of the Ultimate Code Editor
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Oct 13, 2024 |
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#104 Effect Oriented Programming: The Book
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Oct 07, 2024 |
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#103 AI Augmented Programming with Stephan Janssen
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Aug 20, 2024 |
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#102 Gathering Nerds and Java Gatherers with Venkat Subramaniam
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Aug 17, 2024 |
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#101 Effects and Local-First with Johannes Schickling
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Jul 07, 2024 |
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#100 Thinking about Thinking with Diana Montalion
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Jun 18, 2024 |
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#99 The Agile Illusion with Trond Hjorteland
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Jun 10, 2024 |
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#98 Continuous Deployment with Valentina Servile
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Apr 21, 2024 |
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#97 The Pkl Configuration Language with Philip Hölzenspies
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Apr 05, 2024 |
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#96 Compassionate Coding with April Wensel
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Mar 22, 2024 |
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#95 21st Century Databases with Gwen Shapira
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Mar 10, 2024 |
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#94 Build Ops & Developer Productivity With Trisha Gee
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Feb 16, 2024 |
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#93 Nerd Sniping via the 1B Row Challenge with Gunnar Morling
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Jan 19, 2024 |
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#92 Virtual Threads Looming with Adam Warski
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Jan 12, 2024 |
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#91 'Tis The Season For Reducing Gradle Friction
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Dec 22, 2023 |
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#90 The Best Manager with Sushila Sahay
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Dec 15, 2023 |
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#89 Algebraic Effects with Kyo (Flavio Brasil)
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Dec 08, 2023 |
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#88 Developers Thriving In the Flow with Arty Starr
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Oct 20, 2023 |
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#87 Diving Deeper into Wasm with Zalim Bashorov
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Oct 06, 2023 |
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#86 The Journey to OCaml with Sabine
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Sep 29, 2023 |
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#85 Scala, Rust, and Durable Computing with John De Goes
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Sep 15, 2023 |
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#84 Inevitable Failure with Dormain Drewitz
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Sep 06, 2023 |
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#83 Rust Developer Retreat & Structured Concurrency
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Aug 21, 2023 |
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#82 The Future of Programming
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Jul 07, 2023 |
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#81 TypeScript & Effects with Michael Arnaldi
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Jun 30, 2023 |
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#80 Investing in Developer Tools with Renee Shah
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May 13, 2023 |
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#79 Domain-Driven Design and Moduliths with Oliver Drotbohm
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May 06, 2023 |
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#78 Immutability & IDLs for Declarative Services with Jakub Kozłowski
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Apr 28, 2023 |
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#77 Quarkus and Microservices with Holly Cummins
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Apr 05, 2023 |
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#76 WebAssembly (Wasm) "The Web Finds a Way" with Vivek Sekhar
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Feb 27, 2023 |
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#75 Haskell "Not as Scary as You Think" with Kris Jenkins
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Feb 18, 2023 |
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#74 Developer Joy = Developer Productivity with Justin Reock
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Jan 13, 2023 |
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#73 Nix - Functional Programming for Software Packaging with Domen Kožar
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Jan 06, 2023 |
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#72 Pants Makes Developers Happier & More Productive with Benjy Weinberger
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Dec 16, 2022 |
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#71 Functional Programming in Kotlin with Simon Vergauwen (Sorry about the terrible audio)
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Dec 01, 2022 |
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#70 Understanding Software Through Bees & Biology With Grace Jansen
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Oct 31, 2022 |
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#69 Polymorphism Unbound
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Sep 30, 2022 |
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#68 The End of Ivory Tower Architecture with Andrew Harmel-Law
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Sep 03, 2022 |
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#67 Swallowed by a Python with Luciano Ramalho
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Aug 31, 2022 |
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#66 The Journey to Rust with Christopher Hunt
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Aug 13, 2022 |
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#65 Rod's Gambit - Spring, Scala, TypeScript, and Chess with Rod Johnson
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Aug 08, 2022 |
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#64 Building Build Tools is Hard with Josh Suereth
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Jul 22, 2022 |
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#63 ZIO 2 dot Ohhhhh! with Bill Frasure
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Jul 01, 2022 |
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#62 Musing About Local-First Sync & CRDTs with Mark McGranaghan
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May 27, 2022 |
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#61 Compassionate Communities with Tonya Moore
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May 13, 2022 |
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#60 Kotlin Language Design with Roman Elizarov
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Apr 12, 2022 |
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#59 Goetz's Law, Dhall, and Nix (With Gabriella Gonzalez)
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Mar 29, 2022 |
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#58 Scala 3: Significant indentation and other things we love (With Martin Odersky)
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Mar 20, 2022 |
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#57 Technology Trade Offs: Python & Kotlin (With Matt Anger)
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Mar 15, 2022 |
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#56 Feedback Loops & Software is Like Surgery (With Daniel Terhorst-North)
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Mar 10, 2022 |
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#55 Apache Kafka - Like Functional Programming but for Data (With Anna McDonald)
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Mar 03, 2022 |
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#54 Flix: Designing a principled programming language with Magnus Madsen
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Feb 05, 2022 |
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#53 Open Source: Free as in Hot Dogs (With Donald Fischer)
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Jan 21, 2022 |
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#52 Reveling in Nonsense With Josh Long
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Jan 14, 2022 |
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#51 James' New Kotlin PM Job
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Dec 24, 2021 |
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#50 Testcontainers (Like Uber but for Integration Tests) with Sergei Egorov
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Dec 17, 2021 |
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#49 Smart Types (Like Regular Types, Only Smarter) with Jorge Vasquez
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Dec 10, 2021 |
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#48 Composability in Distributed Systems - Because Math! With Heather Miller
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Nov 19, 2021 |
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#47 The Future of Programming Rocs! With Richard Feldman
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Nov 17, 2021 |
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#46 What Problem Does GraalVM Solve? All of them. Featuring Alina Yurenko
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Nov 05, 2021 |
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#45 ZIO 2 - Better, Faster, Friendlier with Adam Fraser
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Oct 29, 2021 |
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#44 Tired of Getting N+1'd by Your ORM? A Chat With Alexander Ioffe.
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Oct 29, 2021 |
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#43 Rúnar Bjarnason is Jackhammering the Foundations of Programming
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Oct 25, 2021 |
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#42 The answer to life, the universe, and everything is an abstraction with Viktor Klang
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Oct 05, 2021 |
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#41 "Never gonna give you up" (FP that is) with Wiem Zine Elabidine
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Sep 26, 2021 |
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#40 Poisoned Agile with Barry Hawkins
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Sep 17, 2021 |
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#39 Cracking the Company Culture Conundrum with Sharon Schmidt
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Sep 10, 2021 |
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#38 Databases are Insufficient with Jonas Bonér
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Aug 27, 2021 |
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#37 The Future of Everything with Paul Snively
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Aug 14, 2021 |
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#36 The Freedom of Structured Unconferences
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Aug 06, 2021 |
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#35 The Pattern of Design Patterns
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Jul 23, 2021 |
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#34 Fear, Uncertainty, and Monads with Dick Wall
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Jul 09, 2021 |
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#33 Rethinking "Thinking in Objects"
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Jul 02, 2021 |
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#32 Adopting Kotlin & FP with Katie Levy
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Jun 18, 2021 |
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#31 "ZIO's not a library it's a state of mind" with Kit Langton
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Jun 11, 2021 |
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#30 Programming in (not with) Scala 3 but with Bill Venners
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May 28, 2021 |
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#29 Contemplating Computer Cognition with Julie Amundson
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May 18, 2021 |
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#28 PREP - Performant, Reliable, Expressive, and Productive
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Apr 30, 2021 |
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#27 Side-Effects of a Scala 3 Release
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Apr 23, 2021 |
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#26 Dependency Injection - Why Do We Even...
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Apr 16, 2021 |
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#25 No Good Build Tools. Blocked on Reactive.
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Apr 09, 2021 |
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#24 Vulnerability & Additive Hiring with Dianne Marsh
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Apr 02, 2021 |
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#23 The Modern Java Platform - 2021 Edition
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Mar 19, 2021 |
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#22 Be the Kindness You Want to See in the Programming World
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Mar 08, 2021 |
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#21 Statically-Dynamic Programming or Dynamically-Static Programming? And Death by 1000 Language Quirks
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Feb 26, 2021 |
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#20 Cultures (not the petri dish variety) & Developer Marketing (also not the petri dish variety)
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Feb 12, 2021 |
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#19 Technology Evolution & Adoption - Why So Slow?
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Feb 05, 2021 |
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#18 "But Will it Scale?" and Other Illusions of Control
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Jan 18, 2021 |
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#17 The Problem with Gradle; Java 11; SemVer Isn't
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Jan 07, 2021 |
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#16 Kotlin for Scala Devs. Reflection is the Devil. Meta-Programming.
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Dec 19, 2020 |
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#15 Atomic Kotlin Done! Cloud Events. TestContainers / Serverless Cassandra. Scala ZIO CLI.
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Dec 14, 2020 |
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#14 Poly-Polymorphism
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Dec 04, 2020 |
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#12 The Rise of Python & (Unrelated) Making Illegal States Unrepresentable
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Nov 06, 2020 |
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#11 Small talk about Smalltalk
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Oct 30, 2020 |
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#10 Gazing Into the Programming Crystal Ball and Can Organizations Adopt Inner Source?
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Oct 20, 2020 |
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#9 Buildpacks, Containers, Kubernetes, Happy Path Programming, Rust, and gRPC
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Oct 16, 2020 |
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#8 Kotlin Revisited with Cedric Beust
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Oct 06, 2020 |
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#7 Why Adopt New Technology? And Monads! Monads! Monads!
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Sep 29, 2020 |
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#6 The Crusade Against Custom Declarative Languages and Meta-Bike-Shedding
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Sep 25, 2020 |
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#5 Developer Productivity, Non-Violent Agile, and Organizational Structures
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Sep 17, 2020 |
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#4 Why is Developer Experience Often Terrible?
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Sep 16, 2020 |
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#3 Nulls, ADTs, and Code Formatting
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Sep 15, 2020 |
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#2 More Kotlin!
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Sep 14, 2020 |
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#1 Adventures in Kotlin
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Sep 13, 2020 |