Happy Path Programming – Details, episodes & analysis

⁠Stephan Janssen⁠ is always on the bleeding edge of both helping developers grow and with how he uses technology to accomplish amazing things. He led the creation of Devoxx but is a coder at heart. Stephan shares his journey with AI, both as a "library" in his applications and also as an "assistant" that helps him iterate and program more quickly.

Resources:

• DevoxxGenie IntelliJ Plugin
• Ollama
• LangChain for Java
• LMstudio
• Llama.cpp
• James on The AI Native Dev Podcast: Rethinking Software Development: James Ward on AI's Role in Software Testing and Coding

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We chat with Venkat about his upcoming dev2next conference and the new Stream Gatherers API (preview in JDK 22).

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When Gunnar Morling announced the 1 Billion Row Challenge a few weeks ago, he had no idea it'd go crazy viral.

Resources:

• Challenge details: www.morling.dev/blog/one-billion-row-challenge
• Rust 1BRC Blog: aminediro.com/posts/billion_row/
• Cliff Click's implementation walkthrough: www.youtube.com/watch?v=NJNIbgV6j-Y
• James' very slow Scala ZIO implementation: github.com/jamesward/1brc-zio/blob/main/src/main/scala/Main.scala

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In episode 2 we continue the conversation about Kotlin, things we enjoy and things that could be better.

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In our first episode we discuss features of the Kotlin programming language that we like.

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We chat with Adam Warski about Loom, Virtual Threads, and his Loom-based Scala library, Ox, for structured concurrency & Go-Like Channels.

Referenced articles & code:

• Ox EasyRacer Client
• Go statement considered harmful
• Go-like selects using jox channels in Java
• Limits of Loom's performance
• Fast and Scalable Channels in Kotlin Coroutines

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Announcing Graboo, a collection of experiments to reduce friction with Gradle. Repo:

https://github.com/jamesward/graboo

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Most of us have managers but they aren't always great. We chat with James' best manager, Sushila Sahay, about what makes her such a great manager. We also dive a bit into open source business models since Sushila has deep experience in that realm.

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We learn about Algebraic Effects with the Scala library Kyo ( getkyo.io) from the creator, Flavio Brasil.

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Arty Starr is a PhD student and entrepreneur focused on helping developers thrive. We chat about her research on developer momentum and ways that developers can find joy through more time in the flow state.

Referenced resources:

• SpringOne Talk
• Arty's Idea Flow Book
• FlowInsight

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