
Happy Path Programming
No-frills discussions between Bruce Eckel and James Ward about programming, what it is, and what it should be.
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Dec 22, 2023 • 1h 7min
#91 'Tis The Season For Reducing Gradle Friction
Announcing Graboo, a collection of experiments to reduce friction with Gradle. Repo:
https://github.com/jamesward/graboo
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Dec 15, 2023 • 45min
#90 The Best Manager with Sushila Sahay
Most of us have managers but they aren't always great. We chat with James' best manager, Sushila Sahay, about what makes her such a great manager. We also dive a bit into open source business models since Sushila has deep experience in that realm.
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Dec 8, 2023 • 1h 8min
#89 Algebraic Effects with Kyo (Flavio Brasil)
We learn about Algebraic Effects with the Scala library Kyo ( getkyo.io) from the creator, Flavio Brasil.
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Oct 20, 2023 • 1h 15min
#88 Developers Thriving In the Flow with Arty Starr
Arty Starr is a PhD student and entrepreneur focused on helping developers thrive. We chat about her research on developer momentum and ways that developers can find joy through more time in the flow state.
Referenced resources:
SpringOne Talk
Arty's Idea Flow Book
FlowInsight
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Oct 6, 2023 • 1h 7min
#87 Diving Deeper into Wasm with Zalim Bashorov
Zalim Bashorov (@bashorov) works on Kotlin/Wasm at JetBrains and answers our many questions about Wasm, GC, the Component Model, and other future proposals.
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Sep 29, 2023 • 1h 11min
#86 The Journey to OCaml with Sabine
Sabine went from acedemia and a PhD in formal methods, to Python, Elm, Haskell, and now OCaml. We chat about this journey and some of the reasons why OCaml is an awesome modern language.
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Sep 15, 2023 • 1h 20min
#85 Scala, Rust, and Durable Computing with John De Goes
Expert in Scala, Rust, and durable computing platforms, John De Goes, discusses his Scala & Rust journeys, Golem Cloud, business applications parallelism need, Rust's impressive tooling, differences in meta programming models, building a command line tool with ZOCLI and GraalVM, achieving durability with WebAssembly, exploring potential of durable computing, technology stack, and simplifying reasoning about concurrent programs.

Sep 6, 2023 • 1h 9min
#84 Inevitable Failure with Dormain Drewitz
We chat with Dormain Drewitz about failure and reliability. Ironically our recording software crashed near the end of the episode but we recovered and wrapped things up.
Referenced Article: 10 Years of Failure Friday at PagerDuty: Fostering Resilience, Learning and Reliability
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Aug 21, 2023 • 58min
#83 Rust Developer Retreat & Structured Concurrency
At the Rust Developer Retreat, the hosts discuss their projects and experiences with Rust. They also explore structured concurrency, anonymous types in Python and Rust, the benefits of small scopes in programming, and the Tokyo scheduler. They highlight the importance of higher-level APIs for structured concurrency and the advantages of using them in Rust.

Jul 7, 2023 • 1h 12min
#82 The Future of Programming
Bruce and James chat about the future of programming.
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