Kodsnack 604 - Farmer's disposition, with Evan Czaplicki

Fredrik talks to Evan Czaplicki, creator of Elm about figuring out a good path for yourself.

What do you do when you have a job which seems like it would be your dream job, but it turns out to be the wrong thing for you? And how do you escape from that?

You can’t put the success of something you build before your own personal and mental health, no matter how right the decision may be for the thing you build.

Is there ever a reproducible path? Aren’t most or all successful things in large part a result of their circumstances?

Platform languages and productivity languages - which do you prefer?

Thoughts on the tradeoffs of when and how to roll things out and when to present ideas.

Evan’s development mindset and environment, and the ways it has affected Elm’s design - all the way down to the error messages.

Finally, of course, the benefits of country life - out of the radiation of San Francisco.

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Links

• Evan
• Elm
• Prezi
• Guido van Rossum
• Brendan Eich
• Bjarne Stroustrup
• Hindley–Milner type inference
• Gary Bernhardt
• Talks by Gary
• SIMD
• Standard ML
• Ocaml
• Haskell
• Lambda calculus
• Algebraic data types
• Type inference
• Virtual DOM
• Webbhuset
• Dart
• Safari’s no performance regressions rule
• Sublime text
• GHC
• Nano
• Emacs

Titles

• The personal aspects
• A culture clash
• I wasn’t supposed to be here
• This numb feeling
• I’ve never really been to the real world
• Is this even real?
• The path that Guido did
• This is you
• This isn’t for me, and it’s your fault
• Valuing my own health
• Reckless indifference
• A dispute between colleagues
• A nice solution will come out if you’re patient enough
• Here’s your error message: good luck
• Farmer’s disposition
• These are good years
• Getting paid in chickens for web development
• Finding a place