
Thinking in Array Languages with Alex Shroyer
Richard talks to to Alex Shroyer about his unusually extensive experiences with Array Languages like APL and J - where they come from, how they have more to offer than just extreme conciseness, and wh...
5 Heinä 202347min

My Contribution to the Left-Pad Incident with Simon Lydell
Richard talks with Simon Lydell, a programmer whose open-source JavaScript work ended up contributing to what might be the most infamous package-related outage in programming history. In addition to t...
27 Kesä 202357min

Comparing Haskell to R with Will Kurt
Richard talks to Will Kurt, an AI Engineer at Hex as well as the author of both the countbayesie.com blog as well as the book Get Programming with Haskell, from Manning Publications. They talk about t...
20 Kesä 20231h

Defunctionalization in a Functional Language with Ayaz Hafiz
Richard talks to Ayaz Hafiz about his work on the Roc programming language. They discuss behind-the-scenes compiler details like implementing ad-hoc polymorphism and defunctionalization using lambda s...
24 Touko 20231h 16min

Linking & Binary Hot Code Loading with Jakub Konka
Richard talks to Jakub Konka, a programmer who works on the Zig programming language. They talk about the low-level systems programming involved in Jacob's work on Zig and other projects, including th...
14 Touko 202353min

From Bootcamp to Teaching Masters' Comp Sci
Richard talks to Chelsea Troy, a programmer working at Mozilla who has a side gig teaching Masters' Computer Science students at the University of Chicago. This is highly unusual, considering she does...
4 Touko 202352min

Syntax and the Future of Programming with Josh Warner
Richard talks with Josh Warner, who has been working on making improvements to the Roc programming language, particularly around the parser and formatter. They start out talking about syntax and code ...
27 Huhti 20231h 5min

Growing Programming Communities with Ryan Haskell-Glatz
Richard talks with Ryan Haskell-Glatz, author of the open-source Elm projects elm-spa and Elm Land. They get into things like new user onboarding experiences, framework churn, and dynamics between aut...
21 Huhti 202357min



















