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February 06, 2023 0:48:48 117.12 MB Downloads: 0

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Haskell and Clojure in Production with Eric Normand

January 30, 2023 0:50:10 48.15 MB Downloads: 0

Richard talks to Eric Normand about his experiences using both Haskell and Clojure in production, and his perspectives on comparing and contrasting the approaches of the two languages.

F# in Production with Scott Wlaschin

January 16, 2023 0:51:17 49.23 MB Downloads: 0

Richard talks with Scott Wlaschin, author of the book Domain Modeling Made Functional and the website F# for Fun and Profit, about using F# in production and the minimal essence of functional programming.

Scratch-Building an Operating System with Steve Klabnik

January 16, 2023 0:56:57 136.66 MB Downloads: 0

Richard talks with Steve Klabnik about his experiences being a major contributor to Ruby on Rails, and then to Rust, and now to a scratch-built operating system at Oxide.

Scaling Slack's Infrastructure

January 09, 2023 0:52:48 50.69 MB Downloads: 0

Richard talks with Richard Crowley, who led Operations Engineering at Slack from when they were 20 employees to when they were 20,000 employees, about his lessons learned through the experience.

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Bootstrapping a Compiler via WASM with Loris Cro

December 26, 2022 0:57:12 54.91 MB Downloads: 0

Richard talks with Loris Cro about how and why the new Zig compiler bootstraps itself using WebAssembly.

Technical Empathy with Andrea Goulet

December 12, 2022 0:53:50 51.67 MB Downloads: 0

Richard talks with Andrea Goulet, a programmer at Corgibytes and coauthor of the book Empathy-Driven Software Development published by Pearson. They talk about the surprising interactions between technology and empathy, including how empathy for other programmers can lead to not only better interactions with other programmers, but even better understanding of the technology itself.

Embracing the Chaos with Jean Yang

December 05, 2022 0:47:39 114.37 MB Downloads: 0

Richard talks with Akita Software founder and former PhD Computer Science professor Jean Yang, about about her experiences in academia and in industry as a startup founder, and how different programmers think about guarantees - or lack thereof - in chaotic production systems

Are Functions Data? with Yehonathan Sharvit

November 28, 2022 0:54:32 130.88 MB Downloads: 0

Richard talks with Yehonathan Sharvit, author of the book Data Oriented Programming from Manning Publications, about data oriented programming, immutability, and whether functions should be considered data.

Derw with Noah Hall

November 21, 2022 0:45:55 110.2 MB Downloads: 0

Richard talks with Noah Hall, the creator of the Dedu programming language, about backwards compatibility, tradeoffs in different styles of running open-source projects, and how languages evolve through risk-taking and experimentation.

Software Rituals with David Nolen

November 14, 2022 1:00:02 57.62 MB Downloads: 0

Richard talks with David Nolen, lead developer of ClojureScript, about the rituals that emerge in different programming communities, among many other topics!

Accessibility in Practice with the Accessibilibats

November 09, 2022 0:58:32 140.47 MB Downloads: 0

Richard talks with the Accessibilibats, a team of three people working at NoRedInk to improve the accessibility of a product that's used by millions of people. The discussion focuses on their actual experiences in practice - what was surprising, what was challenging, and advice for the future.

Static Types in Elixir with José Valim

October 31, 2022 1:01:00 146.41 MB Downloads: 0

Richard talks with José Valim, the creator of the Elixir programming language, about introducing static types to Elixir.

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October 17, 2022 0:54:07 129.89 MB Downloads: 0

Richard and Joran Greef talk about the TigerBeetle database, an impressive feat of engineering effort which Joran has been building to solve real-world problems his team has encountered at work.

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October 10, 2022 0:57:02 136.91 MB Downloads: 0

Richard and Frontend Masters founder Marc Grabanksi talk about a "back to basics" approach to Web development, not based on any frameworks or unnecessary dependencies.