Regular Programming

Oct 28 2024 62 ep. 46 mins 46
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Conversations about programming. By Andreas Ekeroot and Lars Wikman, funded by Underjord.io.

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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

About Embedded

Jun 24 2024 37 mins  
Embedded is a weird thing. Lars is all Nerves and tries to explain and report from a world where people know part numbers off the top of their heads. The physical device missing is rarely a thing that happens in web development.Embedded-style work can sneak into other areas as well. Without a root file system, everything is a lot more secure. Security is a deep topic in general, an

About Interviewing

May 27 2024 31 mins  
Andreas is a man of many hobbies. Interviewing for example. But sometimes, you get strange questions from strange people, end up feeling scared, or start lying just a bit. Then, perhaps, you tell the story of a bug. Perhaps we shouldn't work during the winter?Lars doesn't have interviews. More like sales calls. H§e shares his experiences of how to recruitment, both as part of inte

About Ranting at Ecto

Mar 25 2024 36 mins  
Stories about Ecto quickly redeeming itself, and of what it takes to introduce foreign keys.Some of us are super comfortable referencing the ID. Lars dislikes that Ecto needs to be more complicated because of SQL, but the abstractions do hold.Also: the biggest reason to ever use a ORM! It can be reallynice to come back to one after a tour of plain SQL-land.Some people have just bee