Regular Programming

<p>What is functional programming?</p><p>Andreas grabs his whiteboard and his Turing machine, and starts from laziness, while Lars thinks of immutability, functions, and data.</p><p>Is syntax important for being...

<p>Lars wants a less demanding way to prepare for giving talks, but he doesn't have the time right now.</p><p>Andreas knows a cheat code for public speaking. Lars uses slides like a blunt instrument.</p><p>How should...

<p>What are people talking about when they talk about developer experience? Pretty colors in the terminal?</p><p>What is worth improving, what is not? Lars has thoughts about all of developer experience, not least the...

<p>Andreas' place of work ceased to exist.</p><p>It was mostly a relief.</p><p>The main worry is about resting and recovering enough before whatever comes next begins. All the learnings about how not to do certain...

<p>CRUD - a classic term among supposedly simple web apps. But, not always the right move? Not always all that mappable to the actual problem?</p><p>Discussed: picking spicy architectures, non-CRUD data storage needs...

<p>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...

<p>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...

<p>Stories about Ecto quickly redeeming itself, and of what it takes to introduce foreign keys.</p><p><br>Some of us are super comfortable referencing the ID. Lars dislikes that Ecto needs to be more complicated because...

<p>Fredrik wants to think about long-lived code. Lars is offended, Andreas only a little bit so.</p><p>Are there other good software development practices out there? Other than the ones focusing on building something...

<p>The Saint Valentine's peak passed without issue. Andreas had time for semlor.</p><p><br>Lars has opinions on semlor, and can imagine many possible improvements. Like having an apple. Or a pizza.</p><p><br>Lars has...

<p>Andreas tells the story of a old system which suddenly exhibited a new and frightening bug. Lars shares similar experiences of things going wrong in new and novel ways.</p><p>When things do go wrong, it is so nice to...

<p>Lars dove into data pipelines, and emerged bearing arrows and wishing for a lot fewer copies.</p><p>What is there to think about regarding data pipelines, what is interesting about them?</p><p>Which tools are out...

<p>GenServers are fun! Andreas gives all the context. Things were learned, knowledge was aquired. You can do so much with GenServers, but make sure you have a good reason.</p><p>If you don't watch out, this is where...

<p>Every web app starts out fine, the tabula rasa of an unwritten BODY. But sooner or later you need users. And a million other things which live in trees.</p><p>Also: email.</p><p>And that layer between the controller...

<p>The software development industry is very much built for code nerds. It shouldn’t be.</p><p>Many of us know many people who are really into coding. Not every working developer can, or even should, be though. Doesn't...