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Functional Geekery Episode 129 – Eric Normand

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Post date December 24, 2019
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In this episode I talk with Eric Normand. We talk his podcast “Thoughts on Functional Programming”; his in-progress book “Grokking Simplicity“; Actions, Calculations, and Data; trying to bury mutation and side-effects; Property-Based testing; and more.

Our Guest, Eric Normand

@ericnormand on Twitter
PurelyFunctional.tv
LispCast.com
Thoughts on Functional Programming
Grokking Simplicity

Conference Announcements

Lambda Days 2020 will be on the 13th and 14th of February in Kraków, Poland. Visit https://www.lambdadays.org/lambdadays2020 to find out more and to register.

Code BEAM SF is taking place on March 6th and 6th. For more information visit: https://codesync.global/conferences/code-beam-sf/.

Elm in the Spring will be taking place May 1st. Check in at https://www.elminthespring.org/ to keep updated as more information gets announced.

If you have a conference related to functional programming, contact me, and I will be happy to announce it.

Announcements

Some of you have asked how you can support Functional Geekery, in that vein, Functional Geekery now has a Patreon Page.

If that is one of the ways you would like to show your support, you can find out more at https://www.patreon.com/fngeekery.

Topics [@2:32]

Welcome back Eric
What Eric has been up to since Episode 117
PurelyFunctional.tv
Grokking Simplicity
What prompted the Thoughts on Functional Programming podcast
Started from Eric’s talk at Lambdup 2017
Being told it is much easier to edit existing text than write new text
Trying to start a literature around functional programming
Figuring out the format/layout of the book
“Just imagine each page as a slide”
The target audience for the book
“Functional programming is programming without side effects”
Not being able to recommend any books on getting started with functional programming
Actions, Calculations, and Data
Actions (Impure “Function”) – Depend on when, or how many times, they are run
Side-effects also being the reason we write programs
Calculations (Pure “Functions”) – Same arguments, same answer no matter how many times you run it
Data – completely inert
Data can be interpreted in multiple ways
Other side of Data is that it requires at least some interpretation
How to help distinguish Actions from Calculations
Haskell‘s IO type containing all side-effects as brilliant
The illusion that we are not doing any mutability at the machine level
Blurry line between Actions and Calculations in some cases
Any conventions for later readers to hint at Actions vs Calculations
Selling the separation of Calculations from Actions
Spending time on showing how Actions “contaminate” Calculations
The idea that “You could abstract away the mutation”
Thinking you are going to bury and covering up the problem
“Can you construct a User from an ID without hitting the database”
Needing mocks as a possible signal of being an Action instead of a Calculation
PurelyFunctional.tv videos
Thoughts on Functional Programming podcast
Property-Based Testing videos
Beginning Property-Based Testing course
Intermediate Property-Based Testing course
Advanced Property-Based Testing course
Property-Based testing
QuickCheck
Next course likely building a web-app in Clojure
Bag of Tricks for Property-Based testing
Developing for Stateful Systems
Model-based Property testing
Taking a Stateful test to a Parallel test to a Distributed Test
TSSIMPLICITY discount code for 50% off

As always, a giant Thank You goes to David Belcher for the logo design.

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Functional Geekery Episode 128 – Gene Kim

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Post date November 26, 2019
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In this episode I talk with Gene Kim. We talk his introduction to Clojure and functional programming, The Phoenix Project and The Unicorn Project, Functional Architecture, lessons learned, his Love Letter to Clojure, and much, much, more.

Our Guest, Gene Kim

@realgenekim on Twitter
realgenekim on LinkedIn

Conference Announcements

Lambda Days 2020 will be on the 13th and 14th of February in Kraków, Poland. Visit https://www.lambdadays.org/lambdadays2020 to find out more and to register.

Code BEAM SF is taking place on March 6th and 6th. For more information visit: https://codesync.global/conferences/code-beam-sf/.

Elm in the Spring will be taking place May 1st. Check in at https://www.elminthespring.org/ to keep updated as more information gets announced.

If you have a conference related to functional programming, contact me, and I will be happy to announce it.

Announcements

Some of you have asked how you can support Functional Geekery, in that vein, Functional Geekery now has a Patreon Page.

If that is one of the ways you would like to show your support, you can find out more at https://www.patreon.com/fngeekery.

Topics [@2:51]

About Gene
Tripwire
State of DevOps Report
The Phoenix Project
The DevOps Handbook
The Unicorn Project
Clojure
Love Letter to Clojure (Part 1)
Ops being where the saves were made
Gene Spafford
Morris worm
90% of his errors go away when using Clojure
What put Clojure on his list to pick up
Ruby Reference Manual
How Ruby strings aren’t immutable
Reading a Clojure book and bolting upright in bed finding out that Ruby’s << operator modifies the right hand side array
Java Concurrency in Practice
Eiffel
Object Oriented Software Construction
Smalltalk
Immutability and Value Object in Object Oriented style
Working in the REPL in Clojure
Writing a vacation notifier for Gmail
Rewrites note taking and tweeting app a number of times
Objective C
TypeScript and React
Clojure and re-frame
Data is immutable, but the program is very mutable
Flow by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Flow, the secret to happiness Ted Talk
Peak by Anders Ericsson
Deliberate Practice
Grit by Angela Duckworth
Have a coach; Do practice
Podcasts
David Koontz on Functional Geekery
LambdaCast
Functional Design in Clojure podcast
JavaScript tooling environment
Cats library
Haskell
How has Clojure refreshed Gene’s thinking when going back to older programs
Maxine in The Unicorn Project
Micheal Nygard
How did the scenes resonate to Proctor
RamdaJs
Brian Lonsdorf on Functional Geekery
David Chambers covering Ramda on Functional Geekery
Seeing the shape of the data
Some form of a combination of map, filter, reduce
“Is it good to think with”
Sapir-Whorf hypothesis: Language affects worldview of the speakers
Eric Normand on thinking in types based off experience in Haskell
Grokking Simplicity
Actions, Calculation, Data
Simon Peyton Jones on Functional Geekery
Dr. John Launchbury
Creating Word-Cloud from bibliography and replacing “Ibid.” problem
“What are the types of input and output?”
“What is the correct answer when you have just one element ‘Ibid.’?”
clojure.spec
How much did Functional Programming and data-focus opting to write The Unicorn Project
Studying Rich Hickey videos
Rich Hickey’s 2015 JavaOne presentation
Lunch Factor: How many people do we need to take out to lunch to get something done?
“How do you get data where it resides […] to where developers can use it in their daily work”
Kafka
Event Sourcing
Self Identifying as a Developer after 25 years
Gene’s current view on Functional Architecture
Scott Havens (of Jet.com and Walmart.com) presentation on turning 23 API calls to 2 API calls
Scott Havens’ talk about rebuilding Kafka servers
F#
The 5 Ideals:

Locality and Simplicity
Focus, Flow, and Joy
Improvement of daily work
Psychological Safety
Customer Focus

Project Oxygen at Google
Core vs Context
Excepts of the first 60% of The Unicorn Project
First 8 chapters as Audiobook format
Fernando Cornago – Adidas talk on data availability across the organization
Clojure Conj
Gene’s presentation at Clojure Conj

As always, a giant Thank You goes to David Belcher for the logo design.

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Functional Geekery Episode 127 – Katie Hughes

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Post date August 6, 2019
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In this episode I talk with Katie Hughes. We talk her introduction to software development, exposure to functional programming, orienting herself in a new codebase, “learning to trust again”, and much more.

Our Guest, Katie Hughes

@glitteringkatie on Twitter
http://glitteringkatie.com/

Conference Announcements

Summer BOB 2019 is taking place August 21st in Berlin, Germany. Visit https://bobkonf.de/2019-summer/ for registration and more information.

elm-conf 2019 is September 12th in St. Louis, Missouri. Visit https://2019.elm-conf.com/ to find out more and to register.

OPEN FSHARP 2019 is taking place in the heart of San Francisco, on the 25th – 27th of September. Visit https://www.openfsharp.org/ to register and find out more.

Lambda Days 2020 just announced their CFP! Go to their website and submit a talk for a chance to present your work on their stage in February. https://www.lambdadays.org/lambdadays2020#call-for-papers

If you have a conference related to functional programming, contact me, and I will be happy to announce it.

Announcements

Some of you have asked how you can support Functional Geekery, in that vein, Functional Geekery now has a Patreon Page.

If that is one of the ways you would like to show your support, you can find out more at https://www.patreon.com/fngeekery.

Topics [@2:50]

About Katie
NoRedInk
React
AppNexus
Elm
Pascal
Oregon State
Exposure to functional programming via Internship
Lodash
Programming Language Fundamentals class
Haskell
Prolog
Katie’s Introduction to Elm
Redux
Learning Elm and Haskell as part of 20% time
Learn You A Haskell for Great Good
Going through the book in both Haskell and JavaScript
Being exposed to some functional programming before the college course
How Haskell and Elm in 20% time feed back into React and Redux usage
Redux-Saga
Currying
Taking 20% learnings back to the team
Working with people that were interested in functional programming
Learning the paradigm
Moving to work at NoRedInk
Ruby
Ruby on Rails
Elm in the Spring
Katie’s Minor in Cognitive Psychology
Cognitive Maps
Where the Elm Am I
“What Can I Break?”
Learning how to trust again using Elm
Reading the import statements in Elm
Using the Elm compiler to help build a mental map by seeing what breaks
Katie’s experience picking up Elixir
GenServers
Understanding how data flows through the Elixir Services
Starting an Elixir Book Club at work
Little Elixir and OTP Guide Book
Refining strategy of how to break things in Elixir
Upcoming talk at elm-conf
Working on project to connect characters in Marvel Universe
SquirrelGirl
Look into Elm Conferences for first time talkers
Tips for writing a good CFP
Breaking down the outline early
Learning Objectives for the audience
Get Programming with Haskell
Elm Lang tutorial
Elm tutorial as good guide for understanding React and Redux

As always, a giant Thank You goes to David Belcher for the logo design.

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Functional Geekery Episode 126 – Andy Hunt and Dave Thomas

Post author By functionalgeekery
Post date July 2, 2019
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In this episode I talk with Andy Hunt and Dave Thomas. We talk about their upcoming 20th Anniversary Edition of The Pragmatic Programmer, what prompted a 20th Anniversary Edition, what has changed and what has stayed the same in the 20 years since, where they see things going based off what they have seen, and much, much more.

Our Guests, Andy Hunt and Dave Thomas

@PragmaticAndy on Twitter
https://toolshed.com/
Andy’s Now Page
@pragdave on Twitter
https://pragdave.me/

Conference Announcements

If you have a conference related to functional programming, contact me, and I will be happy to announce it.

Announcements

Some of you have asked how you can support Functional Geekery, in that vein, Functional Geekery now has a Patreon Page.

If that is one of the ways you would like to show your support, you can find out more at https://www.patreon.com/fngeekery.

Topics [@1:14]

Welcome Andy and Dave
The Pragmatic Programmer
The Pragmatic Programmer 20th Anniversary Edition
What prompted a 20th Anniversary Update/Re-write
Han Shoots First
DRY – Don’t Repeat Yourself
Updating the level between the last two sections of the book
Book-ending the 20th Anniversary edition with call to responsibility
Pragmatic Bookshelf
Addison Wesley / Pearson
Being rooted in agility
Disconnect between source and primary artifact
Harry Potter
Applying principles from software to working in publishing
Going with Easiest Way vs Investing in Conscience
The Pragmatic Programmer standing the test of time
“Brush your teeth kind of advise”
Common Sense and deliberately trying new things
“Don’t really trust yourself either”
“Take small steps and try stuff
Finding “Trust but verify” origin
Following the Seed of Curiosity
The 5 Whys
Asking “What are the appropriate practices?” instead of “What are the best practices?”
What trends look to be more sticky going forward
Picking languages to use and reference in the book
How to choose a language to learn
“If you don’t understand it, if it confuses you, if it makes you uncomfortable, then that’s the language you should learn.”
Haskell
“Every language has its little unique additions to the world”
“You should always have at least three different ways of implementing it try to get some clarity”
What things Dave and Andy thought should have been paid more attention to
Unit Testing – Don’t write your own framework today
Blackboard Systems
How Functional Programming plays in with what they have experienced over the last 20 years
“Making State Transformation Explicit”
Logo/Turtle Graphics
“There is no one right way of doing things”
Ruby
“It would be a big, big mistake for any of your listeners to consider themselves a Functional Programmer”
“Your Role is Problem Solver”
“How could this code be used against me, against the company, against the user”
Responsibility for moral implications and how the Nuremberg defense isn’t and excuse
Reducing your dependencies libraries and frameworks
The Pragmatic Programmer 20th Anniversary Edition
Beta currently available
Hardcover in fall
Southern Methodist University

As always, a giant Thank You goes to David Belcher for the logo design.

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Functional Geekery Episode 125 – Verónica López

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Post date August 28, 2018
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In this episode I talk with Verónica López. We talk her background, exposure to Go and Elixir, working with CoreOS and Kubernetes, being a bridge between Kubernetes and the BEAM communities, and more.

Our Guest, Verónica López

@maria_fibonacci on Twitter

Conference Announcements

International Conference on Functional Programming 2018 will be taking place September 23 – 29th in St. Louis, MO. For more information, and to register visit: https://icfp18.sigplan.org/

StrangeLoop 2018 will be taking place September 27th and 28th, with a pre-conference day on the 26th in St. Louis, MO. To keep updated as details become announced you can find out more at: https://www.thestrangeloop.com/

(eighth RacketCon) will take place September 27th and 28th in St. Louis, Missouri, along side ICFP and Strange Loop. For more information, and to register visit https://con.racket-lang.org/.

The Big Elixir Conference will be on November 8th and 9th in New Orleans. Visit https://www.thebigelixir.com for more information and to register.

Code Mesh LDN will be taking place on November 8th and 9th in London. Visit https://codesync.global/conferences/code-mesh-2018/ for more information and to register.

Lambda Days 2019 will be taking place February 21st and 22nc in Kraków, Poland. For more information and to register visit http://www.lambdadays.org/.

If you have a conference related to functional programming, contact me, and I will be happy to announce it.

Announcements

Some of you have asked how you can support Functional Geekery, in that vein,
Functional Geekery now has a Patreon Page.

If that is one of the ways you would like to show your support, you can
find out more at https://www.patreon.com/fngeekery.

Topics [@3:26]

About Verónica
Red Hat
CoreOS
Go
Java
Elixir
Python
Background as a physicist
Translating software from Fortran to Python
Working on Android applications
Building back-end services and doing UI design as a mobile developer
Moving into more back-end development
Transition to Go and Elixir
Getting creative on limited infrastructure
ElixirConf 2017 – My Journey from Go to Elixir
Why originally picking Go over Elixir for concurrency
Norberto Ortigoza
Further exposure to Elixir
Translating Elixir and BEAM concepts to Go
Phoenix Framework
Kubernetes
Learning how to fail better
CoreOS
etcd
OpenShift
Comparing Elixir and the BEAM to Kubernetes
Learning from other languages and toolkits approaches to distributed systems
Operator SDK
Operators in Kubernetes
Being able to use Elixir in an organization as a luxury currently
Being a bridge between Kubernetes and Elixir
Languages live or die by promotion
Importance of having people to learn from

As always, a giant Thank You goes to David Belcher for the logo design.

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Functional Geekery Episode 124 – Sam Guyer and Caleb Helbling

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Post date May 29, 2018
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In this episode I talk with Sam Guyer and Caleb Helbling. We talk about Juniper, a functional reactive programming language for Arduino programming.

Our Guests, Sam Guyer and Caleb Helbling

Sam Guyer
http://www.calebh.io/
@CalebHelbling on Twitter

Conference Announcements

Monadic Party, a 5 day Haskell Summer School, will be taking place in Poznań, Poland the 11th-15th of June. Visit https://monadic.party/ for more information and to register.

The 2018 Racket Summer School will run July 9th – 13th at the University of Utah, in Salt Lake City, Utah. For more information, and to apply visit https://summer-school.racket-lang.org/2018/.

BusConf will take place for the second time from August 2nd to August 4th in Germany, close to Frankfurt. For more information and to register visit: http://www.bus-conf.org/.

Compose::Melbourne will be taking place Monday August 27th. Visit http://www.composeconference.org/ to keep updated as more details are announced.

International Conference on Functional Programming 2018 will be taking place September 23 – 29th in St. Louis, MO. For more information, and to register visit: https://icfp18.sigplan.org/

(eighth RacketCon) will take place September 27th and 28th in St. Louis, Missouri, along side ICFP and Strange Loop. For more information, and to register visit https://con.racket-lang.org/.

The Big Elixir Conference will be on November 8th and 9th in New Orleans. Visit https://www.thebigelixir.com for more information and to register.

If you have a conference related to functional programming, contact me, and I will be happy to announce it.

Announcements

Some of you have asked how you can support Functional Geekery, in that vein,
Functional Geekery now has a Patreon Page.

If that is one of the ways you would like to show your support, you can
find out more at https://www.patreon.com/fngeekery.

Topics [@5:12]

About Sam and Caleb
Tufts University
Juniper
Arduino
How Sam and Caleb got into working with Arduinos
Juniper Paper
Addressable RGB LED strips
“There’s smoking coming out if it. Now it’s garbage.”
Pain of programming on an Arduino for those not familiar with C++
FastLED library
Concurrency and discrete event simulator
Signals
Going from feeling the pain to creating Juniper
Representing a Signal Graph
Elm Architecture
Maybe Types to represent Signal values
Reactive Programming model
Data Flow Model
Functional Reactive Programming
Using polling based model under the covers
Signal Graph as a mental model
Importance of Higher Order Functions on Signals
Writing Signal generation functions in C++
Ability to have multiple Signals propagating at the same time
Debouncing button press
Where Juniper fits today with an interrupt model
Writing Juniper in F#
Haskell
OCaml
Standard ML
fparsec
Workflow from writing code to loading on an Arduino
C++ Templates
Debugging hardware vs software
Where Juniper is today
Problem with closures in embedded software with limited memory
How to get started with Juniper
Juniper Google Group
Blockspell
FastLED Google+

As always, a giant Thank You goes to David Belcher for the logo design.

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Functional Geekery Episode 123 – Zach Tellman

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Post date May 8, 2018
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In this episode I talk with Zach Tellman. We talk his introduction to Clojure, how he has noticed Clojure change over the past 10 years, his book Elements of Clojure, and more.

Our Guest, Zach Tellman

Zach’s website
@ztellman on Twitter
http://elementsofclojure.com/

Conference Announcements

CodeBEAM STO, formerly Erlang User Conference, celebrates the 20th Anniversary of Erlang being made Open Sourced, and will be taking place May 31st and June 1st. For more information and to register visit https://codesync.global.