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Happy Path Programming

No-frills discussions between Bruce Eckel and James Ward about programming, what it is, and what it should be. Buy the Happy Path Programming t-shirt: https://happy-path.printify.me/products

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50 episodes

Sep 3, 2022•—

#68 The End of Ivory Tower Architecture with Andrew Harmel-Law

Sep 30, 2022•—

#69 Polymorphism Unbound

Oct 31, 2022•—

#70 Understanding Software Through Bees & Biology With Grace Jansen

Dec 1, 2022•—

#71 Functional Programming in Kotlin with Simon Vergauwen (Sorry about the terrible audio)

Dec 16, 2022•—

#72 Pants Makes Developers Happier & More Productive with Benjy Weinberger

Jan 6, 2023•—

#73 Nix - Functional Programming for Software Packaging with Domen Kožar

Jan 13, 2023•—

#74 Developer Joy = Developer Productivity with Justin Reock

Feb 18, 2023•—

#75 Haskell "Not as Scary as You Think" with Kris Jenkins

Feb 27, 2023•—

#76 WebAssembly (Wasm) "The Web Finds a Way" with Vivek Sekhar

Apr 5, 2023•—

#77 Quarkus and Microservices with Holly Cummins

Apr 28, 2023•—

#78 Immutability & IDLs for Declarative Services with Jakub Kozłowski

May 6, 2023•—

#79 Domain-Driven Design and Moduliths with Oliver Drotbohm

May 13, 2023•—

#80 Investing in Developer Tools with Renee Shah

Jun 30, 2023•—

#81 TypeScript & Effects with Michael Arnaldi

Jul 7, 2023•—

#82 The Future of Programming

Aug 21, 2023•—

#83 Rust Developer Retreat & Structured Concurrency

Sep 6, 2023•—

#84 Inevitable Failure with Dormain Drewitz

Sep 15, 2023•—

#85 Scala, Rust, and Durable Computing with John De Goes

Sep 29, 2023•—

#86 The Journey to OCaml with Sabine

Oct 6, 2023•—

#87 Diving Deeper into Wasm with Zalim Bashorov

Oct 20, 2023•—

#88 Developers Thriving In the Flow with Arty Starr

Dec 8, 2023•—

#89 Algebraic Effects with Kyo (Flavio Brasil)

Dec 15, 2023•—

#90 The Best Manager with Sushila Sahay

Dec 22, 2023•—

#91 'Tis The Season For Reducing Gradle Friction

Jan 12, 2024•—

#92 Virtual Threads Looming with Adam Warski

Jan 19, 2024•—

#93 Nerd Sniping via the 1B Row Challenge with Gunnar Morling

Feb 16, 2024•—

#94 Build Ops & Developer Productivity With Trisha Gee

Mar 10, 2024•—

#95 21st Century Databases with Gwen Shapira

Mar 22, 2024•—

#96 Compassionate Coding with April Wensel

Apr 5, 2024•—

#97 The Pkl Configuration Language with Philip Hölzenspies

Apr 21, 2024•—

#98 Continuous Deployment with Valentina Servile

Jun 10, 2024•—

#99 The Agile Illusion with Trond Hjorteland

Jun 18, 2024•—

#100 Thinking about Thinking with Diana Montalion

Jul 7, 2024•—

#101 Effects and Local-First with Johannes Schickling

Aug 17, 2024•—

#102 Gathering Nerds and Java Gatherers with Venkat Subramaniam

Aug 20, 2024•—

#103 AI Augmented Programming with ⁠⁠Stephan Janssen⁠⁠

Oct 6, 2024•—

#104 Effect Oriented Programming: The Book

Oct 13, 2024•—

#105 Nathan Sobo's Pursuit of the Ultimate Code Editor

Dec 3, 2024•—

#106 Agile Organizations with Jutta Eckstein

Dec 30, 2024•—

#107 The Joy of Programming with Dave Thomas

Jan 30, 2025•—

#108 Winter Tech Forum and Current Projects

Feb 21, 2025•—

#109 AI, LLMs, and MCP with Lize Raes

Apr 8, 2025•—

#110 Unlocking Developer Productivity with Justin Reock

Apr 10, 2025•—

#111 Wasm & MCP with Steve Manuel

Jul 2, 2025•—

#112 AI Agents Get More 9's with Rod Johnson

Jul 21, 2025•—

#113 Graph & RAG with Jennifer Reif

Jul 25, 2025•—

#114 ty: Fast Python Type Checking with Carl Meyer

Aug 11, 2025•—

#115 More Python Type Checking! Pyrefly with Aaron Pollack & Steven Troxler

Sep 19, 2025•—

#116 Infrastructure as Effects with Sam Goodwin

Nov 18, 2025•—

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