In this episode I talk with Katja Mordaunt and Adam Warski. We talk Katja's and Adam's introduction to software, being on the LambdaDays 2022 Programme Committee, a peek what being on the Programme Committee looks like, introducing new people to functional programming, and more.
In this episode I talk with Katja Mordaunt and Adam Warski. We talk Katja’s and Adam’s introduction to software, being on the LambdaDays 2022 Programme Committee, a peek what being on the Programme Committee looks like, introducing new people to functional programming, and more.
katjam on:
adamwarski on Twitter
adamw on Github
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About Katja
About Adam
How Katja got into software development and Elm
Basic
Logo
Pascal
Java
Elm
How did Katja get into Elm
PHP
F#
Elm as a beginner friendly language
Felienne Hermans
Code Reading Club
React
How Adam got into software development and Scala
Pascal
Scheme
OCaml
Java
JBoss/RedHat
SoftwareMill
Scala
Why Scala
Groovy
Kotlin
Clojure
Immutable collections by default
Coq
Having done Masters Thesis in Category Theory
You don’t need any background in category theory to be productive in Scala
Jane Street
Being on Lambda Days 2022 Programme Committee
Covid making things difficult on scheduling
The Programme Committee process
Reading through submissions
Getting a coverage of different languages and experience levels
Futhark
Nix
Rust
Balancing the theoretical with practical and fun talks
Lambda Days as a hybrid track plans
“Meeting John Hughes was pretty cool”
Bringing in new people
Cats library
“Embracing everything is an expression”
“Go for tickets that are just about copy”
“It’s all about confidence”
Eric Normand’s 5 step strategy from Grokking Simplicity
Don’t give the names for things to understand what someone understands
Where to find Katja
Katjam on Elm Slack and Elm discords
Elm Lang Slack
elmcraft.org
Incremental Elm
Code Reading Club
Where to find Adam
adamwarski on Twitter
Tapir
shelly.dev
As always, a giant Thank You goes to David Belcher for the logo design.