React, it turns out, is not what lies at the end of the web development rainbow. In this episode, Esko, Juha and Jussi talk about achieving super fast user interfaces by combining functional programming techniques and embedding observables directly into the DOM with Harmaja.
Guests:
Juha Paananen started coding with Commodore computers in the 80s and is a proud holder of both IBM WebSphere and XML certificates. Juha is the author of Harmaja, but perhaps best known in the open source community as the creator of the Bacon.js library. He loves functional programming, electronics and generally writing stuff from scratch.
Jussi Saurio quit his job as an English teacher in late 2016 and started teaching himself software development. After three months of intense self-study, he scored his first tech job, and the rest is (fairly recent) history.
Host:
Esko Lahti is an engineer who still remembers the struggle of using Apache Wicket and JSP to create web applications.
Episode Links:
- React: https://reactjs.org/
- Harmaja: https://github.com/raimohanska/harmaja
- Lonna: https://github.com/raimohanska/lonna
- Bacon.js: https://baconjs.github.io/
- Calmm.js: https://github.com/calmm-js
- partial.lenses: https://github.com/calmm-js/partial.lenses
- r-board: https://github.com/raimohanska/r-board
About Reaktor:
Fork Pull Merge Push is a podcast by Reaktor, a strategy, design and technology company changing how the world works.
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GraphQL has arguably changed the entire paradigm of writing full-stack web applications. In today’s episode, Esko, Ian and Dirk discuss GraphQL, Apollo, and Relay, and why they can, in good conscience, be called a web developer’s cheat codes.
Guests:
Ian Fosbery is a big believer in good communication—both face-to-face, and through code. For the past 15 years, he has been building products, writing code, and getting excited about everything from good software design to devops and scale.
Dirk Geurs is a technologist interested in creating high-performing software teams. Over the last year, he worked on various cross-platform mobile applications.
Host:
Esko Lahti is an engineer who is lazy and loves to take the easy way out. (Editor’s note: No one has ever witnessed Esko take an easy way out of anything.)
Episode Links:
- GraphQL: https://graphql.org/
- GraphQL.js: https://github.com/graphql/graphql-js
- Relay: https://relay.dev/
- Apollo: https://www.apollographql.com/
- Falcor: https://netflix.github.io/falcor/
- Hasura: https://hasura.io/
- Om Next: https://github.com/omcljs/om
About Reaktor:
Form Pull Merge Push is a podcast by Reaktor, a strategy, design and technology company changing how the world works.
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Still writing bespoke functions and boilerplate to immutably manipulate a complex data structure? Statically typed optics will both do the heavy lifting for you, AND give your TypeScript hustle an unforeseen boost.
Guest:
Petri Lehtinen started programming with Basic in the mid-90s. Open source projects and functional programming in typed programming languages are close to his heart.
Host:
Esko Lahti is an engineer who saw the light after first encountering the partial.lenses optics library in 2017.
Episode links:
- optics-ts: https://github.com/akheron/optics-ts
- Monocle: https://www.optics.dev/Monocle
- Monocle-ts: https://github.com/gcanti/monocle-ts
- partial.lenses: https://github.com/calmm-js/partial.lenses
- calmm.js: https://github.com/calmm-js
- Profunctor optics: http://www.cs.ox.ac.uk/people/jeremy.gibbons/publications/poptics.pdf
- A comprehensive study about different optic types: http://oleg.fi/gists/posts/2017-04-18-glassery.html
About Reaktor:
Fork Pull Merge Push is a podcast by Reaktor, a strategy, design and technology company changing how the world works.
Reaktor is always on the lookout for bright software developers to work in health, security, emerging technologies, and much more. See www.reaktor.com/careers.
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Multiple threads or only one thread, and why should it matter? Blocking or non-blocking IO, and what benefits do each of them offer? What’s the problem of using callbacks? Hold on to your hats, folks – in this episode, Esko, Andy and Otto plow through some of the most fundamental questions regarding runtime environments.
Guests
Andy Davies is a software developer who likes making other developers’ lives easier, usually by providing libraries, tooling, infrastructure, build systems, and ways of working. He likes keeping things simple. He doesn’t like Kubernetes.
Otto Paaso also likes simple things (and static types). For the past 12 years he has been working on embedded, desktop and web products, as well as the necessary backend and infrastructure technologies to make things rock.
Host
Esko Lahti is an engineer who wants to know how things work under the hood, no matter how many threads are involved. He has no horse in the Node.js vs JVM race.
Episode links
- V8 JavaScript Engine: https://v8.dev/
- The Node.js Event Loop: https://nodejs.dev/learn/the-nodejs-event-loop
- A Guide to CompletableFutures in Java: https://www.baeldung.com/java-completablefuture
- Overview of blocking and non-blocking IO: https://nodejs.org/en/docs/guides/blocking-vs-non-blocking/
- Asynchronous programming in C#: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/csharp/async
About Reaktor
Fork Pull Merge Push is a podcast by Reaktor, a strategy, design and technology company changing how the world works.
Reaktor is always on the lookout for bright software developers to work in health, security, emerging technologies, and much more. See www.reaktor.com/careers.
@ReaktorNow
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Two years ago, David and Tijn formed Amsterdam Hackers: a group of developers willing to conquer and learn from tech problems they had previously found impossible. In this episode, Esko talks to the two Amsterdam-based engineers about the group’s philosophy, as well as their two largest projects; the gbforth and Delisp.
Guests
David Vázquez grew up sitting next to his father, watching him code in Clipper. Having coded in Microsoft Access and Visual Basic, he got into Linux and C around 2002. David then learned Emacs and Lisp that introduced him to programming language design and implementations. The rest is history.
Tijn Kersjes discovered programming as a kid when he realised you can create games rather than just play them. Eventually, he decided to combine his two passions (drinking coffee and writing code) into a software development career.
Host
Esko Lahti is an engineer who enjoys team work over solo work of any kind.
Episode links
- Amsterdam Hackers: https://github.com/ams-hackers
- Delisp: https://github.com/liphe/delisp
- Hindley-Milner type system: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hindley%E2%80%93Milner_type_system
- Racket: https://racket-lang.org/
- gbforth, a Forth-based Game Boy development kit: https://github.com/ams-hackers/gbforth
- Chip-8: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CHIP-8
- Sokoban Game: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sokoban
About Reaktor
Fork Pull Merge Push is a podcast by Reaktor, a strategy, design and technology company changing how the world works. Reaktor has offices in New York, Amsterdam, Stockholm, Tokyo and Helsinki, Turku and Tampere.
Reaktor is always on the lookout for bright software developers to work in health, security, emerging technologies, and much more. See www.reaktor.com/careers.
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Category theory may strike you as intimidating, but trust us, you can (and after this episode, are probably itching to) talk applicative functors and parser combinators over afterwork drinks. Listen in to learn why Esko and Antti – both of whom started programming with dynamically typed languages – are so into category theory right now that they see applications of it everywhere.
Guest
Antti Holvikari is endlessly fascinated by pure functional programming languages such as Haskell and PureScript. Software quality and personal productivity are two things he’s constantly improving.
Host
Esko Lahti is an engineer who always wanted to learn about category theory in practice – but never knew where to start. Then he met Antti Holvikari.
Episode links
- PureScript:Â https://www.purescript.org/
- Parser Combinators, a Walkthrough:Â https://hasura.io/blog/parser-combinators-walkthrough/
- fp-ts:Â https://github.com/gcanti/fp-ts
- io-ts:Â https://github.com/gcanti/io-ts
- Algebraic Data Types:Â https://dev.to/gcanti/functional-design-algebraic-data-types-36kf
- Discriminated Unions in TypeScript:Â https://basarat.gitbook.io/typescript/type-system/discriminated-unions
- Maybe Not, a talk by Rich Hickey: https://youtu.be/YR5WdGrpoug
About Reaktor
Fork Pull Merge Push is a podcast by Reaktor, a strategy, design and technology company changing how the world works. Reaktor has offices in New York, Amsterdam, Stockholm, Tokyo and Helsinki, Turku and Tampere.
Reaktor is always on the lookout for bright software developers to work in health, security, emerging technologies, and much more.
See www.reaktor.com/careers.
@ReaktorNow
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Cheers to the 14th trip around the sun of the language that’s made up of data! In this episode, Esko, Matti and Toni discuss Clojure, REPL, and how you can use them in your next project.
Guests
Matti Lankinen’s programming career started from the little boy’s dream of making his own games. C++ was too hard at the time, so he started making his own programming language. It was never finished. (Hands up, who can relate?)
Toni Vanhala learned the alphabet by typing on the keyboard and copying BASIC programs his mother read aloud. A couple decades later, Toni got his Ph.D. after programming a custom gaze tracker, virtual humans that react to facial expressions, and a chair that senses emotions.
Host
Esko Lahti is an engineer who now works in the company that got him into Clojure. Now, his party trick at meetups is to rapid fire through an extensive list of parentheses jokes.
Episode links
- The Clojure programming language: https://clojure.org/
- Shadow CLJS: https://shadow-cljs.github.io/docs/UsersGuide.html
- Leiningen: https://leiningen.org/
- Pedestal: https://github.com/pedestal/pedestal
- clojurians.slack.com community (invite link): http://clojurians.net/
- Reitit, data-driven router for Clojure(Script): https://github.com/metosin/reitit
- clj-kondo, a linter for Clojure: https://github.com/clj-kondo/clj-kondo
- cljfmt, a tool for formatting Clojure: https://github.com/weavejester/cljfmt
- Hiccup, a library for representing HTML in Clojure: https://github.com/weavejester/hiccup
- Integrant: https://github.com/weavejester/integrant
- Cursive, the Clojure(Script) IDE: https://cursive-ide.com/
- Nightlight, an embedded editor for Clojure: https://sekao.net/nightlight/
- Reagent, React for ClojureScript: https://reagent-project.github.io/
- re-frame, a ClojureScript framework for UIs: https://github.com/day8/re-frame
- Rich Hickey’s most influential talks: https://changelog.com/posts/rich-hickeys-greatest-hits
About Reaktor
Fork Pull Merge Push is a podcast by Reaktor, a strategy, design and technology company changing how the world works. Reaktor has offices in New York, Amsterdam, Stockholm, Tokyo and Helsinki, Turku and Tampere.
Reaktor is always on the lookout for bright software developers to work in health, security, emerging technologies, and much more.
See www.reaktor.com/careers.
@ReaktorNow
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Fork Pull Merge Push is back with new voices, new topics, and insights! The first episode of season two takes us closer to user experience and digital anthropology. In this episode, we talk about ego and bias, life and death in a digital context. We discuss how important it is for software developers to master their soft skills like empathy and communication in order to build successful products or services. Anna Haverinen, Design Anthropologist at Reaktor, shares her hard-earned lessons and puts some of the common ideas in the tech world into perspective. This is also the co-hosting debut for brilliant Anna Fröblom. Welcome Anna! 🤟
Guest
Anna Haverinen is a Design Anthropologist and she holds a PhD in Digital Culture. She works at the intersection of design, technology, and business by providing strategic and qualitative insight into people, communities, and individuals. In her academic work, she has studied grief and death in online environments, and in the past years, she has worked with clients such as UPM, Suunto, Aarikka, and Janssen Pharmaceuticals. Her favorite thing in the world is Fazer chocolate.
Hosts
Anna Fröblom is a great programmer, problem-solver, hobby photographer, lego enthusiast, and simply a nice person.
Esko Lahti is an engineer who now works in the company that got him into Clojure. Now, his party trick at meetups is to rapid-fire through an extensive list of parentheses jokes.
References:
- Madjsberg, Christian & Rasmussen, Mikkel: The Moment of Clarity: Using the Human Sciences to Solve Your Toughest Business Problems
- Hasbrouck, Jay: Ethnographic Thinking: From Method to Mindset
- Tett, Gillian: Anthro‑Vision: How Anthropology Can Explain Business and Life
About Reaktor
Fork Pull Merge Push is a podcast created for developers by developers. It’s brought to you by Reaktor, a strategy, design, and technology company changing how the world works.
We at Reaktor are looking for exceptional talent and new friends. We have open positions in New York, Amsterdam, Helsinki, Lisbon, and more. Check them out and apply today!
Today’s episode is all about artificial intelligence, data science, and software development. We look at AI from technological and business perspectives. Henrik Aalto, a business-savvy data scientist at Reaktor, shares his thoughts on different use cases of AI and why it might actually be the last resort in solving business problems. We discuss when and why AI is feasible in software development projects and what developers need to understand about it.
Guest
Henrik Aalto is a data science generalist with a background in systems analysis and operations research. He works in the intersection of technology and business and loves creating data-driven solutions to complex problems. Despite his passion for AI, sometimes he thinks a simple BI-report will do all that’s needed. In his spare time, he likes to keep it simple – cook from season’s veggies and do mostly outdoor sports that fit the weather.
HostsÂ
Anna Fröblom is a great programmer, problem-solver, hobby photographer, lego enthusiast, and simply a nice person.
Esko Lahti is an engineer who now works in the company that got him into Clojure. Now, his party trick at meetups is to rapid-fire through an extensive list of parentheses jokes.
References
Hidden Technical Debt in Machine Learning Systems
What robots want? Hearing the inner voice of a robot
No matter the levels of automation nor intelligence – your tools always need a human touch
About Reaktor
Fork Pull Merge Push is a podcast created for developers by developers. It’s brought to you by Reaktor, a strategy, design, and technology company changing how the world works.
We at Reaktor are looking for exceptional talent and new friends. We have open positions in New York, Amsterdam, Helsinki, Lisbon, and more. Check them out and apply today!
In today's episode, we talk with product designer Ross Langley about the feeling of belonging. We talk about change — whether it's changing your career path or moving to another country. Ross walks us through the practicalities of relocation. About different working cultures, in Finland and the US. About dealing with the pandemic, impostor syndrome, and difficult clients. Ross opens up about his experience of burn-out and how he recovered from it. We know that it's common for people in the tech industry to move places for work, so we hope Ross' story will help you. p.s. Reaktor has open positions in offices around the globe. Make sure to check them out and join the team: https://www.reaktor.com/careers
Guest
Ross Langley is a human-centered designer from Reaktor Helsinki office. He loves helping teams excel in challenging environments. You can see Ross shine when he does concept modeling, validates ideas, or makes celebrity impressions.
HostsÂ
Anna Fröblom is a great programmer, problem-solver, hobby photographer, lego enthusiast, and simply a nice person.
Esko Lahti is an engineer who now works in the company that got him into Clojure. Now, his party trick at meetups is to rapid-fire through an extensive list of parentheses jokes.
About Reaktor
Fork Pull Merge Push is a podcast created for developers by developers. It’s brought to you by Reaktor, a strategy, design, and technology company changing how the world works.
We at Reaktor are looking for exceptional talent and new friends. We have open positions in New York, Amsterdam, Helsinki, Lisbon, and more. Check them out and apply today!
In this episode, we discuss geographic information system (GIS) - not a well-known domain to many. Henna Kalliokoski, a GIS professional and functional programming enthusiast will share her knowledge on GIS data, coordinate systems, and e.g. accessibility. GIS data can be used in many different ways and she will shed light on e.g. how open source communities contribute to GIS data and service development.
Guest
Henna Kalliokoski a full-stack developer and a GIS professional at Reaktor. Henna gets inspired by people and wants to make the world a better place. She believes in the power of open source and open data. In her free time, Henna learns Chineese and enjoys painting.
Hosts
Anna Fröblom is a great programmer, problem-solver, hobby photographer, lego enthusiast, and simply a nice person.
Esko Lahti is an engineer who now works in the company that got him into Clojure. Now, his party trick at meetups is to rapid-fire through an extensive list of parentheses jokes.
Useful links
Microsoft AI buildings in Humanitarian OpenStreetMapÂ
About Reaktor
Fork Pull Merge Push is a podcast created for developers by developers. It’s brought to you by Reaktor, a strategy, design, and technology company changing how the world works.
We at Reaktor are looking for exceptional talent and new friends. We have open positions in New York, Amsterdam, Helsinki, Lisbon, and more. Check them out and apply today!