Functional Geekery Episode 140 - Katja Mordaunt and Adam Warski 3h6re

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. Our Guests, Katja Mordaunt and Adam Warksi Katja Mordaunt katjam on: Elm Lang Slack elmcraft.org Incremental Elm Adam Warski adamwarski on Twitter adamw on Github Announcements ElixirConf EU is taking place the 9th and 10th of June, with training running the 6th-8th. For more information and to get your tickets visit https://www.elixirconf.eu/. :clojureD is taking place June 11th in Berlin, . Visit https://clojured.de/ for more information and to submit your proposal. Code BEAM Lite A Coruña is taking place in A Coruña, Spain on the 11th of June. Visit https://www.codebeamcorunha.es to , or to find out more. Lambda Days 2022 has been moved to the 28th and 29th of July in Krakow, Poland. Visit lambdadays.org to keep up to date. Some of you have asked how you can Functional Geekery, in that vein, Functional Geekery now has a Patreon Page. If that is one of the ways you would like to show your , you can find out more at https://www.patreon.com/fngeekery. Topics [@2:51] 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. 2g1t35