Our last episode was with David Nolen. We talk about his development process, his origin, and his philosophy. The next episode is on Tuesday, April 22 with special guest Fogus. Please watch us live so you can ask questions. Have you seen Grokking Simplicity, my book for beginners … | Continue reading
Our last Apropos was with Bobbi. Check it out. Our next episode is with David Nolen on Tuesday April 8. Please watch us live so you can ask questions. Have you seen Grokking Simplicity, my book for beginners to functional programming? Please check it out or recommend it to a frie … | Continue reading
Our last Apropos was with Sean Corfield. Check it out. Our next episode is with Bobbi on Tuesday March 25. Please watch us live so you can ask questions. Have you seen Grokking Simplicity, my book for beginners to functional programming? Please check it out or recommend it to a f … | Continue reading
Our last Apropos was with Sean Corfield. Check it out. Our next episode is with Bobbi on March 25. Please watch us live so you can ask questions. Have you seen Grokking Simplicity, my book for beginners to functional programming? Please check it out or recommend it to a friend. Y … | Continue reading
Our last Apropos was with Alex Engelberg. Check it out. Our next episode is with Sean Corfield on March 11 (Paula had to cancel). Please watch us live so you can ask questions. Have you seen Grokking Simplicity, my book for beginners to functional programming? Please check it out … | Continue reading
Our last Apropos was with Alex Engelberg. Check it out. Our next episode is with Paula Gearon on March 11. Please watch us live so you can ask questions. Have you seen Grokking Simplicity, my book for beginners to functional programming? Please check it out or recommend it to a f … | Continue reading
The Apropos show with Alex Miller was great. I love talking with him. This week, we have another Alex, Alex Engelberg. Please join us on YouTube on Tuesday. You can ask us questions in the chat. Have you seen Grokking Simplicity, my book for beginners to functional programming? P … | Continue reading
I was thankful for jump-to-definition and jump-to-references, each bound to a keystroke in my IDE. But I was reaching the limits of my mental stack. I must have been 10 calls deep before it was hard to keep track of where I was. After about 20, I realized I should have kept notes … | Continue reading
The Apropos show with Zach Tellman was a success (despite a technical hiccup; it wouldn’t really be Apropos without hiccups). And this week we have Alex Miller as a guest. Will Alex explain monads or transducers? Please join us on YouTube. You can ask us questions in the chat. Ha … | Continue reading
The Apropos show with Zach Tellman was a success (despite a technical hiccup; it wouldn’t really be Apropos without hiccups). And next week we have Alex Miller as a guest. Please join us on YouTube. You can ask us questions in the chat. And let’s not forget Grokking Simplicity, m … | Continue reading
The Apropos folks (well, at least 3 of us) are back on YouTube! And we’re figuring out the tech. Subscribe to the channel to be notified before we go live. We broadcast this Tuesday with guest Zach Tellman! And let’s not forget Grokking Simplicity, my book for beginners to functi … | Continue reading
If you want to watch me talk for two hours on the topic of my next book, Runnable Specifications, please check out my presentation to the Houston Functional Programming User Group. Two hours were recorded, but the conversation went on for four, it was such fun! Speaking of my new … | Continue reading
Upcoming talk next week: Virtual and open to the public, I will speak about Domain Modeling. Be there! People continue to like Grokking Simplicity continues to spread. If you want to help someone learn functional programming, please consider buying a copy or leaving a review. Why … | Continue reading
A new chapter of Runnable Specifications has passed the “valuable enough to read” threshold. This time, it’s the Time Lens, which talks about build a notion of time into your model. As always, I appreciate questions and comments of all kinds. I’m not sensitive so you won’t hurt m … | Continue reading
A new chapter of Runnable Specifications has passed the “valuable enough to read” threshold. This time, it’s the Time Lens, which talks about build a notion of time into your model. As always, I appreciate questions and comments of all kinds. I’m not sensitive so you won’t hurt m … | Continue reading
Apologies! Last week’s issue was misconfigured. It only went out to paid subscribers. You can still read it online.Please consider buying Grokking Simplicity for your team. It makes a great holiday gift. Nothing says “I appreciate you” than a thoughtful book on functional program … | Continue reading
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Check out my book called Grokking Simplicity and it’s the functional programming book you can recommend to beginners. If you don’t recommend it to your friends, please recommend it on Amazon. I’m giving a talk in January at the Houston Functional Programming User Group. I’ll be p … | Continue reading
Happy Thanksgiving! It’s this Thursday here in the US. I hope it finds you safe and peaceful. Please check out the first chapters of Runnable Specifications. Someone just last week told me they didn’t realize you could already start reading it! He did and said it was just the boo … | Continue reading
The progression of metrics | Continue reading
Where most of problem solving is regulating your fear response | Continue reading
Thoughts on the best conference I've been to | Continue reading
How years of being a good boy cheated me out of what I deserve | Continue reading
How reversing the arrows builds new modes of programming. | Continue reading
Is programming abstraction? | Continue reading
Composition Lens Part 2 is published | Continue reading
How do you analyze an undifferentiated mess? | Continue reading
The origins of bookkeeping | Continue reading
A meandering thought-stream about flow | Continue reading
Real constraints force better products | Continue reading
A vision for programmers at the heart of the business | Continue reading
Back to basics | Continue reading
Are we being obtuse? | Continue reading
Rally to a vision to help people change | Continue reading
Leadership and courage | Continue reading
Musings on the mystical cult of software engineering | Continue reading
Continuous improvement is the only way | Continue reading
An anecdote about a bottleneck disaster | Continue reading
How to make progress without making a mess. | Continue reading
A meandering path to a definition I can live with. | Continue reading