Regular Programming

Jan 20 2025 65 ep. 46 mins 48
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Conversations about programming. By Andreas Ekeroot and Lars Wikman, funded by Underjord.io.

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About Ending Things

Jan 20 2025 40 mins  
The End.LinksLADOKSanne Kalkman - companies should hire junior developersMünchenbryggerietThe art of gatheringDead dog partyNobody wants thisNeon genesis evangelionGhost in the shell: stand alone complexSerial experiments LainHackersBlack mirrorWilliam GibsonBurning chromeNeil StephensonThe Bridge trilogys-CRY-edFullmetal alchemistHellsingSamurai ChamplooBlack lagoon

About the Least Powerful Abstraction

Dec 23 2024 42 mins  
Imagine Andreas going around making annoying electronic sounds all the time.Strike that. Andreas and Lars discuss using less power - less fancy abstractions - to make things easier to understand. Andreas likes to do a de-powering pass to code.Avoid making something which is more general than is useful.Lars goes into the lure of event sourcing - going for very high data resolution -

About Licenses

Nov 25 2024 45 mins  
How do people learn about licenses?If you entered into software in a certain way, it's easy to assume that everyone is a part-time license attorney. But how do other people pick up license knowledge? And what does one really need to know?Licenses underpin open source but seem kind of dull. But they are also a cool and special thing about the software industry.Lars provides his lice

About Learning New Languages

Oct 28 2024 42 mins  
Everyone's favorite idempotent podcast returns to discuss learning new languages and concepts. Can mixing and matching new concepts and syntax help or hinder language adoption? A new concept but a familiar syntax might make a language easier for all the drifting Javascript developers to grab on to.Lars considers picking up a lisp at some point.It's harder to pick up new languages w

About C

Oct 14 2024 53 mins  
Wherein the wonders of C are explored.But first, let Andreas tell you what's so great about Chalmers' approach to teaching computer engineering. Spoiler: starting with Haskell, close to math.The tooling around C: cultural mystery meat.Lars tries out a shocking plan for a productive framework for C!It's very cool to be able to just poke memory. Memory, arrays, structs, and strings a

About Defining Functional Programming

Sep 30 2024 37 mins  
What is functional programming?Andreas grabs his whiteboard and his Turing machine, and starts from laziness, while Lars thinks of immutability, functions, and data.Is syntax important for being functional or not?The functionalness of various languages are delved into, from Haskell to Rust via Python, Go, and Ruby. And, of course, the evil version of Elixir.A good pipeline can be r

About Giving Talks

Sep 02 2024 27 mins  
Lars wants a less demanding way to prepare for giving talks, but he doesn't have the time right now.Andreas knows a cheat code for public speaking. Lars uses slides like a blunt instrument.How should you wield your slides? How do you weigh information content against entertainment value? Should you try to reach precisely everyone with your talk? Many slides, or few? Lars has the qu

About Developer Experience

Aug 19 2024 34 mins  
What are people talking about when they talk about developer experience? Pretty colors in the terminal?What is worth improving, what is not? Lars has thoughts about all of developer experience, not least the one of Nerves. How flaky do you accept, for how fast?Revealed: why all Andreas' Elm programs are one line long.Also: Why not attend the Øredev developer conference in Malmö t

About Endings and Beginnings

Aug 05 2024 28 mins  
Andreas' place of work ceased to exist.It was mostly a relief.The main worry is about resting and recovering enough before whatever comes next begins. All the learnings about how not to do certain things live on.The right way of doing those things still remains to be learned.Lars is on the other end of the spectrum: beginning completely new things. Figuring out where exactly Delawa

About Non-CRUD

Jul 08 2024 29 mins  
CRUD - a classic term among supposedly simple web apps. But, not always the right move? Not always all that mappable to the actual problem?Discussed: picking spicy architectures, non-CRUD data storage needs, slovely solutions, dirty refunds, and doing the OAuth dance.Hey, thing happened!Finally: a story where pubsub was reasonable, and some telemetry.LinksCRUD - Create, read, updat