Hiring Functional Programmers with Kris Jenkins

Richard and Kris Jenkins talk about the process of hiring functional programmers in contrast to how hiring works with more mainstream technologies.

Makepad with Rik Arends

Richard and Rik Arends talk about Makepad, the IDE that Rik is developing using software development techniques that are unusual, to say the least.

Vim and Nix with Jasper Woudenberg

Richard and Jasper talk about Vim, Nix, and related topics.

Teaching Haskell with Christoph Hermann

Richard and Haskell teacher Christoph Hermann talk about the lessons he's learned about teaching Haskell to beginners.

Literal Google Scale

Richard talks with Brendan Hasnknecht, a programmer who works on machine learning compilation at Google, about how very different various things are Google's scale compared to smaller organizations.

Real-World Performance Optimization with Folkert de Vries

Richard and Folkert get into the nitty gritty of performance optimization in the real world.

"Team Monolith" with Jonathan Magen

Distributed systems specialist Jonathan Magen talks to Richard about monoliths, microservices, modularity, code reuse, and interviewing.

Open-Source Careers with Loris Cro

Richard talks with Loris Cro, VP of Community at the Zig Software Foundation, about his career of working professionally for open-source organizations.

Functional Programming in Rust with Luke Westby

Richard and Luke discuss functional programming in Rust, based on their experiences doing FP in Rust and in other languages.

Jared Forsyth - From Web Development to Microcontrollers

Non-mainstream Programming with Gabriella Gonzalez

Richard and Gabriella Gonzalez, creator of the Dhall programming language, discuss how non-mainstream programming languages get adopted (or don't), and some of the explanations for why.

Gleam with Louis Pilfold

Richard and Louis talk about the Gleam programming language, which Louis created.

Functional and Object-Oriented Programming with Lindsay Wardell

Richard and Lindsay talk about their experiences with FP and OOP, and some less obvious differences they've noticed between the two paradigms.

Dark with Paul Biggar

Richard and Paul talk about darklang.com, server infrastructure, and online programming communities, among other topics

Software Design with Dillon Kearns

Richard and full-time open source software developer Dillon Kearns talk about software design, in particular around big software projects used by many programmers.