Functional Geekery

Functional Geekery


Latest Episodes

Functional Geekery Episode 51 – Brian Lonsdorf
May 10, 2016

In this episode I talk with Brian Lonsdorf. We talk his intro to functional programming, introducing functional programming concepts using JavaScript, function composition, pure functions, and when he decides to choose between dynamic and static type sys

Functional Geekery Episode 50 – Bridget Hillyer
May 03, 2016

In this episode I talk with Bridget Hillyer. We talk her introduction to functional programming, ClojureBridge, StrangeLoop, community building, Onyx Platform, and more.

Functional Geekery Episode 49 – Steve Vinoski and Francesco Cesarini
April 12, 2016

In this episode I talk with Steve Vinoski and Francesco Cesarini. We talk their introduction to Erlang, and designing scalable, reliable systems with Erlang We talk their introduction to Erlang, and designing scalable, reliable systems with Erlang.

Functional Geekery Episode 48 – Matthias Felleisen
March 29, 2016

In this episode I talk with Matthias Felleisen. We talk his history with Schemes from The Little Lisper, How to Design Programs, to Typed Racket. We also cover teaching math to middle schoolers with Bootstrap, and using programming to teach problem solv

Functional Geekery Episode 47 – John A. De Goes
March 22, 2016

In this episode I talk with John De Goes. We cover his introduction to functional programming, reasons for starting a functional programming conference, evolution of LambdaConf, what to look forward to at LambdaConf 2016, the choice to pick PureScript at

Functional Geekery Episode 46 – Kurt Schrader
March 15, 2016

In this episode I talk with Kurt Schrader. We talk about his introduction to Clojure, deciding to build a company on Clojure and Datomic, how Datomic changes your thinking about databases and more.

Functional Geekery Episode 45 – Brooklyn Zelenka
March 02, 2016

In this episode I talk with Brooklyn Zelenka. We talk her introduction to functional programming, various user groups she has started, her consultancy Robot Overlord, and her Monad Nomad tour.

Functional Geekery Episode 44 – Michael Craig
February 16, 2016

In this episode I talk with Michael Craig. We talk his introduction to Haskell, doing Haskell on the side and it's impact on his Ruby and Java, using Haskell in production, getting new people up to speed with Haskell, and more.

Functional Geekery Episode 43 – Brujo Benavides
January 19, 2016

In this episode I talk with Brujo Benavides. We talk his history with Erlang, work with Inaka, community growth of Erlang, Erlang tooling, and importance of running Dialyzer on your codebase, and more.

Functional Geekery Episode 42 – Claudia Doppioslash
January 12, 2016

In this episode I talk with Claudia Doppioslash. We talk about how she first got into functional programming; her experience with Clojure, Haskell, Idris, Erlang, Elixir, LFE, and Elm; Static vs Dynamic Types; and her goal of showing Functional Reactive P

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