Functional Geekery

In this episode I talk with Brian Lonsdorf. We talk his intro to functional programming, introducing functional programming concepts using JavaScript, function composition, pure functions, and when he decides to choose between dynamic and static type systems. Our Guest, Brian Lonsdorf @drboolean on Twitter drboolean on Github Brian on YouTube Announcements PolyConf 2016 will be taking place on June 30th – July 2nd. Visit http://polyconf.com/ to keep updated with news as more details become available. Curry On is taking place July 18th and 19th in Rome. Visit curry-on.org to find out more and to register. Full Stack Fest will be hold in Barcelona on September 5-9th. You can check out 2016.fullstackfest.com/call-for-papers —to find out more and submit your paper too. If you have a conference related to functional programming, contact me, and I will be happy to announce it. Topics About Brian Hey Underscore, You’re Doing It Wrong! presentation Professor Frisby’s Mostly Adequate Guide to Functional Programming Professor Frisby videos How Brian got into Functional Programming LoopRecur Domain Driven Design How Brian defines Functional Programming Sneaking in functional programming “envy” into work in object oriented paradigms “But language X is not functional” Feeling of first moving from functional programming from object oriented Importance of mathematical abstractions and composition Reasons for choosing JavaScript over other languages for the Mostly Adequate Guide “this is the leakiest abstraction in the world” Ramda David Chambers talking Ramda on Episode 31 “Composability is my number one agenda in the world” Data.Task Lazy Streams Data.Either Folktale React vs Elm vs PureScript as in intro to the functional style RxJS Thermite in PureScript Halogen in PureScript Using FreeMonads for npm build scripts and DevOps work Salesforce Transition from dynamic to static types Theorems for Free! by Philip Wadler Learn and work at understanding and resolving type signatures Lessons learned between different languages John DeGoes’ The Next Great Programming Language presentation Benefits of Sum and Product Types Thinking about how to be more inclusive Tips for others to understand functional programming Strange Loop’s scholarship program Be humble and honest about your actual knowledge Working on a series for egghead.io “Mostly Adequate Guide is not dead” RxJS, Highland Streams, Data.Task As always, a giant Thank You goes to David Belcher for the logo design.

In this episode I talk with Bridget Hillyer. We talk her introduction to functional programming, ClojureBridge, StrangeLoop, community building, Onyx Platform, and more. Our Guests, Bridget Hillyer bridgethillyer on Github Announcements PolyConf 2016 will be taking place on June 30th – July 2nd. Visit http://polyconf.com/ to keep updated with news as more details become available. Curry On is taking place July 18th and 19th in Rome. Visit curry-on.org to find out more and to register. Full Stack Fest will be hold in Barcelona on September 5-9th. You can check out 2016.fullstackfest.com/call-for-papers —to find out more and submit your paper too. If you have a conference related to functional programming, contact me, and I will be happy to announce it. Topics About Bridget How Bridget was exposed to Clojure Cognitect ClojureConj Why Clojure “This [Lisp] is too simple” Lessons applied to work in Java from learning Clojure Value Objects “Way more cognisant of state” Like to see Java now with Java 8 Craig Andera on Episode 2 4Clojure Clojure Bridge Overview of what a Bridge is Rails Bridge Bridge Foundry Difference in starting with beginners in programming vs beginners to Clojure “For people who are new to programming […] it’s really easy to teach them functional programming principles” Tips for getting started to exposing a Bridge to a new audience Girl Develop It Women Who Code “Make sure to offer something and give something back” Black Girls Code National Society for Black Engineers StrangeLoop How Bridget got involved with the StrangeLoop conference Sponsor people to go to conferences Ruby Central Hired Ashe Dryden to design scholarship program Things that we might do that turns people off from the community The “Smug LISP Weenie” problem The “True Believer” club Being introspective on how our reactions are perceived “We are pushing people away” Onyx “It’s just data” StrangeLoop 2016 StrangeLoop CFP is open through May 9th, 2016 Opportunity Grants are open through May 16th, 2016 Registration opens early June What kind of talks fit for StrangeLoop Carin Meier’s talk on Chemical Computing Carin Meier on Functional Geekery talking about her StrangeLoop talk Valerie Aurora Frame Shift Consulting “Take a few minutes to think about how to make your language community more inclusive” As always, a giant Thank You goes to David Belcher for the logo design.

In this episode I talk with Steve Vinoski and Francesco Cesarini. We talk their introduction to Erlang, and designing scalable, reliable systems with Erlang We talk their introduction to Erlang, and designing scalable, reliable systems with Erlang. Our Guests, Steve Vinoski and Francesco Cesarini @stevevinoski on Twitter @FrancescoC on Twitter Announcements On May 2nd and 3rd flatMap(Oslo) is taking place in Oslo, Norway. flatMap(Oslo) is a conference about functional programming, mainly on the JVM. The call for speakers is now open. To find out more visit http://2016.flatmap.no for more information, and make sure to use code GEEKERY when registering to find out more. PolyConf 2016 will be taking place on June 30th – July 2nd. Visit http://polyconf.com/ to keep updated with news as more details become available. Curry On is taking place July 18th and 19th in Rome. Visit curry-on.org to find out more and to register. Full Stack Fest will be hold in Barcelona on September 5-9th. You can check out 2016.fullstackfest.com/call-for-papers —to find out more and submit your paper too. If you have a conference related to functional programming, contact me, and I will be happy to announce it. Topics About Steve About Francesco Erlang Solutions How Francesco got attracted to Erlang How Steve got into Erlang Yaws “Erlang is actually three things” Erlang the language Erlang the virtual machine (The BEAM) The programming model (OTP) Akka Thinking about the system “Let it crash” mentality Let It Crash… Except When You Shouldn’t Designing for failure in your system Designing for Scalability with Erlang and OTP Why you need OTP Fundamentals of Distributed Systems Fault Tolerance Two computers for reliability “What kind of patterns are used in these systems” How the behaviors work “You have to know what the system is doing if you are going to scale and be reliable” Distributed, fault-tolerant, scalable and reliable Dirty Scheduler in Erlang Rickard Green’s presentation at Erlang Factory San Francisco 2011 Jesper Louis Anderson’s post on Dirty Scheduler AUTHD discount for the book on O’Reilly As always, a giant Thank You goes to David Belcher for the logo design.

In this episode I talk with Matthias Felleisen. We talk his history with Schemes from The Little Lisper, How to Design Programs, to Typed Racket. We also cover teaching math to middle schoolers with Bootstrap, and using programming to teach problem solving and more. Our Guest, Matthias Felleisen Matthias Felleisen’s home page Announcements On May 2nd and 3rd flatMap(Oslo) is taking place in Oslo, Norway. flatMap(Oslo) is a conference about functional programming, mainly on the JVM. The call for speakers is now open. To find out more visit http://2016.flatmap.no for more information, and make sure to use code GEEKERY when registering to find out more. PolyConf 2016 will be taking place on June 30th – July 2nd. The Call For Proposals is now open, and will be taking submissions through the 13th of March. Visit http://polyconf.com/ to keep updated with news as more details become available, and http://eventil.com/events/polyconf-16 to submit your talk proposal. If you have a conference related to functional programming, contact me, and I will be happy to announce it. Topics About Matthias Realm of Racket Racket William Byrd episode of Functional Geekery Matthew Flatt episode of Functional Geekery How Matthias fell in love with parenthesis How a Ph.D. works and how Dan Friedman led him through his Ph.D. Essentials of Programming Languages Research into continuations The Little Schemer How to improve teaching The Little Lisper Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs The Seasoned Schemer The approach of the Socratic manner in The Little Lisper The Reasoned Schemer How to Design Programs “Students didn’t actually get how to write programs well” Tinkering vs repeatable design process Teaching programming to teach mathematics Using programming to teach problem solving Bootstrap to teach programming Learning path from middle school through graduating college “How ‘Hello, World!’ allows them to view problem solving as a very systematic process” Relationship of How to Design Programs and PLT Scheme/Racket “Aiming for a programming language in which it was easy to make little languages” DrRacket “Domain Specific Languages […] is the ultimate abstraction” Types as a tool to express what was in one’s mind when designing software Typed Racket How Typed Racket came into being in Racket Interaction between typed and untyped modules Importance of new, fresh eyes to explore, stretch, and break Typed Racket RacketCon StrangeLoop As always, a giant Thank You goes to David Belcher for the logo design.

In this episode I talk with John De Goes. We cover his introduction to functional programming, reasons for starting a functional programming conference, evolution of LambdaConf, what to look forward to at LambdaConf 2016, the choice to pick PureScript at SlamData, and more. Our Guest, John De Goes @jdegoes on Twitter http://degoes.net/ John on LinkedIn LambdaConf Announcements On May 2nd and 3rd flatMap(Oslo) is taking place in Oslo, Norway. flatMap(Oslo) is a conference about functional programming, mainly on the JVM. The call for speakers is now open. To find out more visit http://2016.flatmap.no for more information, and make sure to use code GEEKERY when registering to find out more. LambdaConf will be taking place May 26th – 29th in Boulder, Colorado. Keep an eye on lambdaconf.us to find out more and to register, and make sure to use code 10Geekery for 10% off the Standard Self-pay registration.. PolyConf 2016 will be taking place on June 30th – July 2nd. The Call For Proposals is now open, and will be taking submissions through the 13th of March. Visit http://polyconf.com/ to keep updated with news as more details become available, and http://eventil.com/events/polyconf-16 to submit your talk proposal. If you have a conference related to functional programming, contact me, and I will be happy to announce it. Topics About John SlamData LambdaConf 2015 episodes, Part 1 and Part 2 How John got into Functional Programming Mathematica Haskell Immutable data structures and recursion instead of loops Scala PureScript “Breaking things down into smaller things we can think about” Organizing LambdaConf 2014 “A desire to promote functional programming” Growth of LambdaConf from 2014 to 2015 Being forced to answer “When are we going to be able to register for LambdaConf 2015?” “We were able to help a lot of people find jobs from LambdaConf 2015” Zeeshan Lakhani on Lisp Flavoured Erlang at LambdaConf 2015 Emily presentation at LambdaConf 2015 Benefit of cross pollination of ideas across functional programming languages Feel of Lambda 2016 Beginning Haskell and Intermediate Haskell workshop from Chris Allen and Julie Moronuki http://haskellbook.com/ Mini Conferences the day before Workshops Breaking the tracks into beginner, intermediate, and advanced Unconference the day after Why PureScript at SlamData Haxe PureScript IRC room Difference of the semantics between Haskell on GHC and Haskell on JavaScript Elm The ability to hire people writing PureScript “If you pick PureScript, you will have more people apply than you could hire” “Trying to forever change the way people write frontend software” “If a big company says ‘Hey, we going to do PureScript’, there’s now risk there” Discount code for LambdaConf is `10Geekery` “You really can make a difference” Importance of sharing knowledge at every level of skill “I will connect with any software developer on LinkedIn” As always, a giant Thank You goes to David Belcher for the logo design.

In this episode I talk with Kurt Schrader. We talk about his introduction to Clojure, deciding to build a company on Clojure and Datomic, how Datomic changes your thinking about databases and more. Our Guest, Kurt Schrader @kurt on Twitter Clubhouse Announcements On May 2nd and 3rd flatMap(Oslo) is taking place in Oslo, Norway. flatMap(Oslo) is a conference about functional programming, mainly on the JVM. The call for speakers is now open. To find out more visit http://2016.flatmap.no for more information, and make sure to use code GEEKERY when registering to find out more. LambdaConf will be taking place May 26th – 29th in Boulder, Colorado. Keep an eye on lambdaconf.us to find out more. PolyConf 2016 will be taking place on June 30th – July 2nd. The Call For Proposals is now open, and will be taking submissions through the 13th of March. Visit http://polyconf.com/ to keep updated with news as more details become available, and http://eventil.com/events/polyconf-16 to submit your talk proposal. If you have a conference related to functional programming, contact me, and I will be happy to announce it. Topics About Kurt How Kurt got into Clojure Datomic Being different enough from Java to force people to think differently “We can always fall back to a Java library” Cascalog “This is just math” Selling Clojure across the company Deciding to build a company and start with Clojure “There was that question of would we be able to hire people” “You use Clojure? I want to do that” The Python Paradox Cursive Using Datomic for historical view of data “There is a self selecting group of people who want to use Datomic” What is Datomic and what it gets you Queries go through memory on a local box Transition in thinking when using Datomic You stop over thinking queries Datalog “You start to ask yourself ‘Why did I do thinks the old way?'” Thinking about how to take advantage of availability of historical data Get out into meetups and grow the community As always, a giant Thank You goes to David Belcher for the logo design.

In this episode I talk with Brooklyn Zelenka. We talk her introduction to functional programming, various user groups she has started, her consultancy Robot Overlord, and her Monad Nomad tour. Our Guest, Brooklyn Zelenka @expede on Twitter expede on Github @hailrobo on Twitter robot-overlord on Github Vancouver FP Vancouver Erlang & Elixir Code & Coffee – Vancouver Announcements Erlang Factory San Francisco will be taking place on the 10th and 11th of March, with training on the 7th through the 9th of March and the 14th through the 16th of March. Listeners get 10% off registration when using code FunctionalGeekery10. On May 2nd and 3rd flatMap(Oslo) is taking place in Oslo, Norway. flatMap(Oslo) is a conference about functional programming, mainly on the JVM. The call for speakers is now open. To find out more visit http://2016.flatmap.no for more information, and make sure to use code GEEKERY when registering to find out more. LambdaConf will be taking place May 26th – 29th in Boulder, Colorado. Keep an eye on lambdaconf.us to find out more. PolyConf 2016 will be taking place on June 30th – July 2nd. The Call For Proposals is now open, and will be taking submissions through the 13th of March. Visit http://polyconf.com/ to keep updated with news as more details become available, and http://eventil.com/events/polyconf-16 to submit your talk proposal. If you have a conference related to functional programming, contact me, and I will be happy to announce it. Topics About Brooklyn What Brooklyn has been up to since her previous appearance on Functional Geekery Interest in Elixir for pulling in Rubyist to functional programming. Generalized Algebraic Data Types Idris Brooklyn’s journey into functional programming Music Theory and programming Common Lisp Haskell Clojure First exposure to Common Lisp from JavaScript The Little Schemer – 4th Edition Transition from Common Lisp exposure to Haskell “I was told ‘This is notoriously difficult’, so I had to learn it” Starting the Vancouver Functional Programming User Group Doing Monads in Ruby Popularity of functional programming in companies in Vancouver Strategies for learning new languages Safari Books Online exercism.io “Learning how to do things idiomatically in that language” Witchcraft monad library for Elixir Impact on functional programming experience on JavaScript programming React Redux Using React as a stepping stone to introduce functional style in JavaScript lodash Immutable.js reagent Om Kicking off her Monad Nomad tour The Monad Nomad on medium.com LambdaConf 2016 Robot Overlord Robot Overlord on medium.com beep@robotoverlord.io Build a community around functional programming As always, a giant Thank You goes to David Belcher for the logo design.

In this episode I talk with Michael Craig. We talk his introduction to Haskell, doing Haskell on the side and it’s impact on his Ruby and Java, using Haskell in production, getting new people up to speed with Haskell, and more. Our Guest, Michael Craig @mkscrg on Twitter Wagon Wagon blog Announcements ElixirDaze will be taking place March 4th in St. Augustine, Florida. ElixirDaze is a one day conference with a nearly full day of talks and a Helping Hack session to close it out. Visit elixirdaze.com to find out more. Erlang Factory San Fransisco will be taking place on the 10th and 11th of March, with training on the 7th through the 9th of March and the 14th through the 16th of March. The Call for Talks is now open through December 15th, and the Very Early Bird registration is open as well. LambdaConf will be taking place May 26th – 29th in Boulder, Colorado. Keep an eye on lambdaconf.us to find out more. PolyConf 2016 will be taking place on June 30th – July 2nd. The Call For Proposals is now open, and will be taking submissions through the 13th of March. Visit http://polyconf.com/ to keep updated with news as more details become available, and http://eventil.com/events/polyconf-16 to submit your talk proposal. If you have a conference related to functional programming, contact me, and I will be happy to announce it. Topics About Michael Wagon Michael’s introduction to Haskell Michael’s introduction to functional programming in Lisp before Haskell “Functional programming in the small” Balance between working in Haskell vs Ruby or Java Trade-off between working in dynamic and static languages How Haskell influenced daily work in Java and Ruby Working on Wagon in Haskell 30,000 foot view of server and client How Wagon’s Haskell web app is structured Warp WAI Handler Monad using a monad transformer to structure a web app “Real world Haskell” Deploying an application in Haskell Amazon’s Elastic Beanstalk Docker Electron Atom Chromium Node.js Squirrel Wagon’s functional style of JavaScript Ramda Underscore and Lodash Flow React and Redux Limiting side effects in JavaScript Bringing people up to speed in Haskell Learn You a Haskell for Great Good What I Wish I knew When Learning Haskell by Stephen Diehl Running client side Haskell and cross-platform support Stack Cabal Structuring Haskell and JavaScript in an Electron app Wagon blog Jobs at Wagon in San Fransisco Bay Area Haskell Users Group Reexamine you assumption about Haskell not being useful for real world apps As always, a giant Thank You goes to David Belcher for the logo design.

In this episode I talk with Brujo Benavides. We talk his history with Erlang, work with Inaka, community growth of Erlang, Erlang tooling, and importance of running Dialyzer on your codebase, and more. Our Guest, Brujo Benavides @elbrujohalcon on Twitter elbrujohalcon on GitHub elbrujohalcon on About Me Inaka @inaka on Twitter Inaka on GitHub Erlang Solutions Announcements Compose :: Conference will be taking place Thursday, Feb. 4th and Friday, Feb. 5 of 2016 in New York City. Compose is a conference for typed functional programmers, focused specifically on Haskell, OCaml, F#, SML, and related technologies. To find out more and to register, visit http://www.composeconference.org/ LambdaDays 2016 will be taking place on the 18th and 19th of February in Kraków, Poland. The CFP and registration has opened, so make sure to visit lambdadays.org to find out more. And make sure to use code FunkyGeekz4dWin to get 10% off registration. :clojureD 2016 will be taking place on the 20th of February in Berlin, Germany. The CFP has opened, so make sure to visit www.clojured.de/ to find out more. ElixirDaze will be taking place March 4th in St. Augustine, Florida. ElixirDaze is a one day conference with a nearly full day of talks and a Helping Hack session to close it out. Visit elixirdaze.com to find out more. Erlang Factory San Fransisco will be taking place on the 10th and 11th of March, with training on the 7th through the 9th of March and the 14th through the 16th of March. The Call for Talks is now open through December 15th, and the Very Early Bird registration is open as well. LambdaConf will be taking place May 26th – 29th in Boulder, Colorado. Keep an eye on lambdaconf.us to find out more. PolyConf 2016 will be taking place on June 30th – July 2nd. The Call For Proposals is now open, and will be taking submissions through the 13th of March. Visit http://polyconf.com/ to keep updated with news as more details become available, and http://eventil.com/events/polyconf-16 to submit your talk proposal. If you have a conference related to functional programming, contact me, and I will be happy to announce it. Topics About Brujo Coming from Visual Basic and .NET into Functional Programming Inaka How Brujo got into first Haskell and then Erlang Getting into the mindset of processes and concurrency Fortune of first working in Erlang for a Voice Over IP telephony app Being the sole Erlang developer at Inaka Chad DePue and Erlang Inside Benefit of enhancing a existing codebase and having something to compare against Whisper MochiWeb Cowboy How Inaka ramps up a new Erlang developer sumo_db Erlang Solutions What the adoption of Erlang from clients looks like Getting developers at clients up to speed in Erlang Robert Virding View of community growth of Erlang over past five years Brujo and Inaka’s work on tooling Hound CI for Ruby Elvis Elvis Rules Style Guides for Erlang xref Dialyzer Gadget xref_runner erl_tidy Swagger cowboy-trails sumo_rest hex.pm Hackage in Haskell erlang.mk Rebar 3 hexer Reconciling usage of build tools for Erlang Importance of using Dialyzer on Erlang projects Getting started with Dialyzer erlang-kantana Erlang Factory San Fransisco Importance of understandable clear code for your projects elbrujohalcon everywhere Erlang Solutions new website As always, a giant Thank You goes to David Belcher for the logo design.

In this episode I talk with Claudia Doppioslash. We talk about how she first got into functional programming; her experience with Clojure, Haskell, Idris, Erlang, Elixir, LFE, and Elm; Static vs Dynamic Types; and her goal of showing Functional Reactive Programming as a good way to do game development. Our Guest, Claudia Doppioslash @doppioslash on Twitter http://blog.doppioslash.com/ @lambda_cat on Twitter http://www.lambdacat.com/ Announcements Compose :: Conference will be taking place Thursday, Feb. 4th and Friday, Feb. 5 of 2016 in New York City. Compose is a conference for typed functional programmers, focused specifically on Haskell, OCaml, F#, SML, and related technologies. To find out more and to register, visit http://www.composeconference.org/ LambdaDays 2016 will be taking place on the 18th and 19th of February in Kraków, Poland. The CFP and registration has opened, so make sure to visit lambdadays.org to find out more. And make sure to use code FunkyGeekz4dWin to get 10% off registration. :clojureD 2016 will be taking place on the 20th of February in Berlin, Germany. The CFP has opened, so make sure to visit www.clojured.de/ to find out more. ElixirDaze will be taking place March 4th in St. Augustine, Florida. ElixirDaze is a one day conference with a nearly full day of talks and a Helping Hack session to close it out. Visit elixirdaze.com to find out more. Erlang Factory San Fransisco will be taking place on the 10th and 11th of March, with training on the 7th through the 9th of March and the 14th through the 16th of March. The Call for Talks is now open through December 15th, and the Very Early Bird registration is open as well. LambdaConf will be taking place May 26th – 29th in Boulder, Colorado. The CFP is currently open, and keep an eye on lambdaconf.us to find out more. If you have a conference related to functional programming, contact me, and I will be happy to announce it. Topics About Claudia How Claudia got into functional programming The Boo programming language idris-cil Experience first getting into Clojure Liverpool Clojure Dojo Clojure on Android FunctionalKats Advantage of having REPL for development workflow Arcadia (on gitter) Emacs+Clojure REPL on Oculus Rift What about Lisps attracted her to them Haskell Idris and dependent types Haskell Programming by Chris Allen and Julie Moronuki Julie Moronuki and Chris Allen on Episode 19 Progressive Typing Claudia’s Dynamic Typing vs Static Typing experience Change of mindset between Clojure vs Haskell vs Erlang Thinking of failure upfront Elixir Good job that Elixir has done with the learning materials Lisp Flavoured Erlang Leiningen Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs in LFE Elm Functional Reactive Programming Gradual learning curve for ease of adoption and productivity Goal of games being written in functional programming languages Elise Huard’s Game Programming in Haskell Cambridge DDD Nights Claudia’s video on Elm’s Time Travelling Debugger As always, a giant Thank You goes to David Belcher for the logo design.