About Good Things in Programming

There are good things in programming, many of which are enumerated in this episode.

Among other nice things: the best features in Elixir. Lars won open source? Bots and realtime-y stuff. Not to mention a type system that screams at you.

Also: Lists in lists, in lists (in lists).

Code made by other people is not one of the things, however. Code made by other people is always upsetting. CSS does not make the list either, but Tailwind does, prompting a discussion of fractally difficult things, leaky abstractions, and progressive enhancement.

Linkable matter

• IO-lists - lists in lists in lists with eventually some binary data in them
• Id3vx - The now published ID3 library
• LiveView
• Phoenix
• Either in Haskell
• Clowns to the Left of me, Jokers to the Right (the paper)
• Stealers Wheel - Stuck in The Middle With You
• Functors
• Elm
• Fmap and bind in Haskell
• Lars' Telegram bots
• Genserver
• Moment.js
• Autobots and Decepticons
• Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson
• Tailwind CSS
• Graceful degradation
• Progressive enhancement

Better titles

• Keeps giving nil
• Carefully optimistically happy
• A JSON-thingy
• You won open source
• I have written the code, and it's not my problem
• Murdering your garbage collector
• A type system that screams at me
• The maybes I got over pretty quickly
• They never stopped being results
• An inherited Erlang footgun
• The speaker that was in the monkey
• It's not only that I'm a backend developer