Lost in Lambduhhs – Détails, épisodes et analyse

Show Notes:

🏕️ Join the Clojure Camp discord! https://discord.gg/V3ptswbabN

✈️ https://2024.clojure-conj.org/ - Snag your tickets soon!

🙏🏼 We’d like to give a special gratitude shoutout to the following folks:

• Ramkissoon and Jenny Roopnarine
• Alex Miller
• Daniel Glouser
• Geo Grigoryan - ⁠https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-KOJyoLWrg⁠
• All the fine folks at Clojurist’s Together

+ 🧟‍♂️ The OG clojure campers “zombietrainers/alphalearners”. We’re so proud of you!

• Wendy Randolph
• Recia Roopnarine
• Tommy Brumley
• Austin Meier aka KingBunz
• Niki aka _nixtwix

🤡 First ever “Clouncil” Episode - “The Best and Worst Ways to Learn Clojure” https://youtu.be/2WsEy1hl5kE

Summary

Origin stories, personal values, and surprising hobbies! Raf shares his journey from Kuwait to Canada and his passion for craftsmanship and pro-social behavior. Recia talks about her background in chemical engineering and thanks her parents for their sacrifice and hard work that inspired her top values of perseverance and compassion. Next thing ya know we’re discussing generational trauma and the potential benefits of suffering as a means of personal development (buddhism seems to be a theme this season huh?).

Surprisingly, Recia's hobbies include making yogurt and baking bread from scratch, while (not so surprisingly) Raf enjoys playing role-playing games and DnD.

Clojure Camp is a community-driven initiative that aims to help people learn and master the Clojure programming language. The founders, Jordan and Raf, along with one of their first learners now turned full time clojure dev Recia, share their personal experiences and motivations for getting involved. They discuss the evolution of Clojure Camp from a bi-weekly Zoom meeting to a more structured and supportive learning community on Discord. The founders emphasize the importance of accountability, emotional support, and shared learning in the learning process. They also highlight the positive impact Clojure Camp has had on their lives and the success stories of learners who have found programming jobs through the community. Tune in in two weeks for part II !

Keywords: origin stories, personal values, suffering, generational trauma, hobbies, craftsmanship, pro-social behavior, perseverance, compassion, yogurt making, bread baking, role-playing games, improv, Clojure Camp, community-driven, Clojure programming language, learning community, accountability, emotional support, shared learning, positive impact, programming jobs, buddhism, clojure conj

Timestamps

03:14 - Start podcast

11:30 - Exploring the Role of Suffering

22:40 - Personal Interests and Hobbies

27:11 - The Impact of Clojure Camp

34:41 - Leveraging Domain Expertise in Job Hunting

41:27 - Building Relationships with Companies

45:47 - The Clojure Conj & Supportive Clojure Community

50:31 - Outro / “Crab Canon Beats Part III” - Produced by L. Jordan Miller

Summary

In this conversation, Jordan and Sophia discuss various topics including Sophia's background, her interest in functional programming and category theory, her experience with Kung Fu and philosophy, and her work at NuBank. They also touch on the challenges of teaching and learning, the importance of creating a supportive environment for growth, and the impact of different cultures on learning and programming.

Keywords

Sophia Velten, functional programming, category theory, Kung Fu, philosophy, NuBank, teaching, learning, growth, culture

Takeaways

• Sophia's diverse background in programming, philosophy, and martial arts has influenced her approach to learning and problem-solving.
• She emphasizes the importance of creating a supportive environment for learning and growth, recognizing that different people have different ways of thinking and learning.
• Sophia's work at NuBank includes the development of libraries like Stateflow and Nodely, which aim to improve code quality and maintainability.
• She believes in the power of functional programming and the use of monads to separate pure code from side effects.
• Sophia's experiences with philosophy and Buddhism have shaped her perspective on life and learning, helping her to embrace the limitations of human knowledge and focus on personal growth.

References

https://github.com/nubank/state-flow

https://github.com/nubank/nodely

https://peter.gillardmoss.me.uk/blog/2023/10/10/on-forests-and-factories/

Sound Bites

• "Once you slip monads into things, it's controversial."
• "The atomic and a lot of our stack is not something that is familiar to many people."
• "Learning is growth. Growth is uncomfortable. Growth is hard."

If you only ever listen to one podcast of mine, make it this. It's soooooo good ya'll. I still got my warm and fuzzies. Get ready to get up in your feels. This is some profound stuff and it’s not just hash-map hobbits ya’ll. Gratitude, suffering, growth, trauma, cats, hierarchy and coersion, toxic techbros, dolphin communication, the Clouncil, giving back to the community, cats and soo much more. There’s a bit of darker section that I should warn you about starting from minute 35-40.

Here are some links mentioned:

• Donut.system Your new favorite component library. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lvuwxzONXbQ
• https://gratefulplace.com/
• The book The Body Keeps the Score by Sean Pratt, Bessel A. van der Kolk, et al.
• **Jackson Galaxy: Home**https://www.jacksongalaxy.com
• https://www.flyingmachinestudios.com/
• Unwinding Anxiety by Judson Brewer
• daniel@braveclojure.com
• https://theclouncil.com/
• @nonrecursive on slack and twitter
• Content warning- alcohol abuse, suicide at minute 35- 40 min.

Had a blast being interviewed on the Functional Geekery Podcast! Here are some show notes:

• My Mentee at Emergent Works: https://mrjackson2400.github.io/
• Dave Beazley: https://www.dabeaz.com/
• Coursera Courses I used and recommend: https://www.coursera.org/search?query=university of michigan
• vouch.io 

Since meeting at the conj a couple years ago, Paula has been a supportive friend and mentor of mine so I was delighted to have her on. Join us as we talk about her recent contributions to clojure, swimming as meditation, music as a hobby and her remorse (https://github.com/quoll/remorse).  

YO! I was invited on to the cognicast ! Here is the Lost in Lambduhhs cross post release. Apply to be a mentor and find out more about the Emergent Works program here: https://emergentworks.org/programs We are always looking for any type of people to help out and there are many ways to do so! Just apply here or contact me for more info. After a couple of small interviews you are matched with your mentee and then meet with them weekly for 12 weeks. You provide guidance and support to them as they navigate basic tech literacy and web dev skills. (You can also just support the mission by donating) Thanks!! Links: Will Acton/Lilactown defn podcast Conj re-frame Emergent Works Lyra Aerial Art Studio Spin Strange Loop ADHD WASD Keyboard Keychron K3 Lofree keyboads Linux Mint Outro music is "Hug The Line" by my buddy Kevin Rieth.  Check him out on spotify! https://open.spotify.com/artist/0zF9vzqyiozoa5kHAeHNWA

Yukkin it up with some buddies! Yet again I crash the Defn Podcast party- and let me tell you a PARTY it is. This is a crosspost and was recorded a month or two ago while I was on the road traveling through CA. [for some context] At the time of recording I was posted up in a sorry excuse for a hotel room with SHAMEFULLY SLOW internet in lovely(?) Silicon Valley, CA. We talkin mentorship, music!, web-development, react native with Krell vs reactjs, tailwind, how to use STORYBOOK to quickly dev components, the experiences of working at vouch.io and so much more!! Enjoy!!!

Bird app links:

Michelle - https://twitter.com/eemshi91
Defn Podcast- https://twitter.com/DefnPodcast
Paula- https://twitter.com/quoll

A bit more context about the stack at vouch.io:
https://vouch.io/developing-mobile-digital-key-applications-with-clojurescript/
https://github.com/vouch-opensource/krell

In one of my favorite ways to find people, I (well, Ray from Defn Podcast) came across Kira sharing some clojure lovin thoughts on that little bird app. Hear our soothing voices talk a little bit of shit on javascript, a lot a bit a shit on ego driven development, the importance of work life balance, how to pull off digital nomad life, spec, testing and so much more! This episode was initially recorded a month or two ago (hey post processing is hard!) so fair warning some of the covid related thoughts are a bit out of date.

Find Kira on that bird app: https://twitter.com/kiraemclean 

Ray too! https://twitter.com/raymcdermott plus check out the defn podcast https://twitter.com/defnpodcast

Catch Kira giving a workshop as a part of the re:clojure series!

https://clojurians.zulipchat.com/#narrow/stream/305782-nov21-workshops/topic/hanami-2021-11-21 https://www.reclojure.org/#workshops

YASSS, MY MAN! This is one for the history books, my friends. I got to chat with one of my favorite clojureverse role models of all time: Eric Normand!!  

• We hear about his new book titled "Grokking Simplicity" published by Manning (discount codes below!!). 
• We hear a little about his life and personal history in regards to how he got into creating instructional content (peace core? COOL!) 
• He shares his thoughts illustrating key concepts that will help you to be a wise architect while planning out and developing a software project.
• Questions regarding asynchronous logic, mutable data (don't be scared my peeps) 
• We discuss how to uncover the "universal truths" in your code base so you can write better code.  
• We get to the bottom of the meaning of "domain driven development" and how to compares it to a more data oriented approach. 

Personally, I credit his instructional work with the basis of my entry into the clojureverse, and I know I'm not the only one.  ENJOY!

Places to find Normy: 

https://purelyfunctional.tv/

https://twitter.com/ericnormand/

https://lispcast.com/

His new book: https://www.manning.com/books/grokking-simplicity

Special Offer from Manning Publishers!!

Here is a permanent 35% discount code (good for all our products in all formats) for your listeners: 

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You can refer to this link: http://mng.bz/drjN

It will last for two months.

Here is a link to the book we recommend "Data Oriented Programming" by Yehonathan Sharvit
https://www.manning.com/books/data-oriented-programming

Hey Friends, its been a minute! I produced this episode on the road, just in time for StrangeLoop! (which was an amazing time!) Thank you to Daniel Glauser who was a heckin great guest host to help me create this masterpiece.

I love acting as a platform for other people's awesome ideas and words but in this episode we get to know me a little bit more intimately as use this opportunity to speak my mind about some of the gender issues facing our industry. I promise, it's actually a really fun time :) Some things we are thinking about:

How do we get more diversity into the tech world?

How do we encourage these valuable groups of people to trickle into some of the more "niche" sections of tech?

How can having these different perspectives add to your team?

I don't pretend to have all the answers but starting the conversation is the first step, wouldn't you say?