Josh Magnus Podcasts

Tonya Moore has been helping build developer communities for years. We discuss how to deal with jerks and the importance of building on a foundation of compassion. Referenced blog from Bill Venners: https://www.artima.com/articles/compassion-in-our-community Discuss this episode: https://discord.gg/nPa76qF…

Kotlin Language designer Roman Elizarov, joins us to talk about finding the right balances when designing Kotlin. Discuss this episode: https://discord.gg/nPa76qF

Gabriella Gonzalez joins to teach us about the Dhall configuration language they created and Nix. References: The Dhall configuration language Henk: a typed intermediate language Pants Build Tool The Purely Functional Software Deployment Model Haskell for all: How to use NixOS for lightweight integration tests How to market Haskell to a mainstream …

Martin Odersky, creator of Scala, joins us to chat about Scala, Effects, Exceptions, Experiments, and other Exciting stuff. Discuss this episode: https://discord.gg/nPa76qF

We explore with Matt Anger a blog he wrote about migrating from Python to Kotlin and the trade offs engineering teams make when deciding which technologies to use. Discuss this episode: https://discord.gg/nPa76qF

We explore with Daniel Terhorst-North how social and technical feedback loops can help us build the right thing faster. Discuss this episode: https://discord.gg/nPa76qF

We chat with the Kafka Duchess, Anna McDonald, about Apache Kafka, CQRS, Event Sourcing, and of-course Functional Programming. Note: There was a bit of echo for a few minutes but we did resolve it around 8 minutes in. Discuss this episode: https://discord.gg/nPa76qF

Magnus Madsen, language designer for the Flix programming language, joins us to talk about the driving principles and innovative features of the language. Discuss this episode: https://discord.gg/nPa76qF

Open Source is an essential foundation for pretty much everything. How do we fund it appropriately? What do we do about Log4Shell-types of issues? Donald Fischer of Tidelift joins us to discuss these economic and human issues. Discuss this episode: https://discord.gg/nPa76qF

A stroll through 20 years of Spring with Josh Long. Also: Bruce, James, and Josh announce their new Ska band. Discuss this episode: https://discord.gg/nPa76qF

This episode wraps up 2021 for the United Voice Oklahoma podcast, and it also is the end of Makenzie’s time as co-host on the podcast. For her final episode she had free rein to interview Wayland about anything and everything. They go deep on some serious issues, as well as some chat about Wayland’s childhood ambitions to be a “Gunsmoke” inspired g…

Hope you all have a happy & healthy holiday! Discuss this episode: https://discord.gg/nPa76qF

Here with us today on the podcast is our friend. Donna Thompson. Donna is one of those women that is always there, humbling serving and making things happen behind the scenes. She is the founder and director of the Oklahoma Baptist State Convention’s Prison Ministry, and has been faithfully serving in that ministry for nearly 20 years. She is also …

Testcontainers are one of James' favorite modern technologies and in this episode we chat with Sergei Egorov, one of the project creators. We learn about what Testcontainers are and the new Testcontainers Cloud service created by Sergei's new company, AtomicJar. Discuss this episode: https://discord.gg/nPa76qF…

Here with us today on the United Voice Oklahoma Podcast is Darrell Davis, the recently elected mayor of Edmond, Oklahoma. Darrell is retired from a 35-year civilian career at Tinker Air Force Base, and sat on the Edmond City Council for 9 years. When he was elected Mayor of Edmond in April of 2021, he became the first black mayor ever elected in Ed…

Jorge Vasquez has been working on a way to have more precise data modeling while not sacrificing performance or ergonomics. Smart Types in ZIO Prelude are the answer, and they are amazing! Discuss this episode: https://discord.gg/nPa76qF

Heather Miller, Computer Science professor at Carnegie Mellon, joins us to talk about her research into composability in distributed systems, the challenges with serialization, and a better approach to Chaos Engineering. Discuss this episode: https://discord.gg/nPa76qF

The creator of the new Roc programming language, Richard Feldman, joins us to talk about rocking developers worlds' with better tools & paradigms. Discuss this episode: https://discord.gg/nPa76qF

We are joined today by someone that is a quiet force behind a lot of what is happening in NE OKC related to entrepreneurship and business development, Greg Jones. If you’ve been around OKC a while, you’ve probably come into contact with Greg himself, or someone in business that he has impacted. Greg is ALL about the community, and on this episode w…

We dive deep on GraalVM and learn from Alina Yurenko about all the problems it solves. Discuss this episode: https://discord.gg/nPa76qF

This week we are very excited to bring you a conversation with some of our friends from Restore OKC. Josh Dodson and Jonathan Veal are our guests, and you don't want to miss this! They catch us up to speed on what's been going on at Restore OKC since we last featured the organization on the podcast in 2019, and then spend some time talking about is…

Adam Fraser is a core contributor to Scala ZIO. He joins us to chat about improvements in ZIO 2 and how we can grow adoption. Discuss this episode: https://discord.gg/nPa76qF

We chat with Alexander Ioffe, maintainer of the Quill library, about database access approaches and Scala metaprogramming. Discuss this episode: https://discord.gg/nPa76qF

This week we bring you a conversation with Pastor Derrick Scobey of Ebenezer Baptist Church in Northeast Oklahoma City. Pastor Scobey is very involved in our community, serving others and building bridges. On this episode, Wayland and Makenzie dive with him into his backstory and the life that brought him to where he is in our city today. You don't…

We've mentioned the futuristic Unision programming language many times but now we dive deep with one of the co-founders. Discuss this episode: https://discord.gg/nPa76qF

On this episode we are joined by OKC’s very own Sharina Perry, the founder and inventor behind Utopia Plastix, a plant-based alternative to traditional petroleum-based plastic. Join us for this conversation about green innovation, entrepreneurship, perseverance and how the dynamics of race have impacted the journey of a trailblazing inventor right …

Joining us this week are Kim Bandy and Sang Rem, both with a nonprofit called The Spero Project here in Oklahoma City. Kim and her husband Brad started Spero about 12 years ago and have been PIONEERS and leaders in our community when it comes to welcoming and engaging with refugees resettled in OKC. Sang herself arrived in OKC on a refugee journey …

We are excited to welcome Makenzie Magnus as our next co-host to the rotating chair of those joining Wayland on the podcast. Makenzie is the Director of Missions at Council Road Baptist Church here in OKC, and gets to work with both their local and global community partners. This quick episode will help you get to know Makenzie a little bit better …

The legendary Viktor Klang chats with Bruce & James about information loss, reactive, emergence, and many other mind expanding topics. Discuss this episode: https://discord.gg/nPa76qF

Bruce and James hear about Wiem's journey in Functional Programming, her contributions to Scala ZIO, and how she never gave up despite the challenges she faced. Discuss this episode: https://discord.gg/nPa76qF

Bruce and James chat with Barry Hawkins about software methodologies, their triumphs and abuses. Discuss this episode: https://discord.gg/nPa76qF

According to James, Heroku had the best company culture / vibe of anywhere he has worked. Bruce & James talk with Sharon Schmidt who is in large part responsible for creating that magical experience. Discuss this episode: https://discord.gg/nPa76qF

James rants about databases with Jonas Bonér, CEO of Lightbend and creator of Akka. Bruce & James also learn about the actor model, Reactive, and Akka Serverless. Discuss this episode: https://discord.gg/nPa76qF

This week we are excited to have the legendary Lee Roland BACK on the United Voice podcast. He was the guest on our second ever episode, and he's back today to talk with Wayland & Jon about his continuing voyage to impact children in our city. Lee is now the Executive Director of Hope United, a new organization in our city aiming to empower, resour…

This episode features a conversation with Oklahoma State Representative Cyndi Munson. Cyndi represents Oklahoma City’s House District 85, and was recently selected to be the next House minority leader. When she was elected in 2015, Cyndi became the first Asian-American woman elected to the Oklahoma legislature. Wayland and Jon had a great conversat…

Paul Snively helps us see the future of programming. Spoiler: It's Typed & Functional. Referenced talks: Types vs. Tests: An Epic Battle? Type Systems - The Good, Bad and Ugly Discuss this episode: https://discord.gg/nPa76qF

Bruce describes his multi-decade journey running conferences and how letting go of control, while still having a structure, has led to conferences where attendees connect in meaningful ways. Discuss this episode: https://discord.gg/nPa76qF

As usual, Bruce & James try to figure out monads & type classes. Then something new, as they go meta on design patterns. Discuss this episode: https://discord.gg/nPa76qF

FEE, FOO, FUD, and FUM (Fear, Uncertainty, and Monads) - Scala Giant, Dick Wall, joins Bruce and James to talk about life, work, and Functional Programming. Discuss this episode: https://discord.gg/nPa76qF

Object Oriented Programming might just be a series of solutions to self-created problems. Discuss this episode: https://discord.gg/nPa76qF

Katie Levy joins Bruce & James to talk about how to help teams adopt Kotlin and Functional Programming. Discuss this episode: https://discord.gg/nPa76qF

This summer, football has gifted us the Euros, and we’ve loved it so far. We’re taking you through all the groups in the tournament, and you’ll get to know how we think this (the group stages) is going to end. We’ve also brought you our best players from each of the groups so far. Coming to an agreement might not have been easy but we hope you enjo…

Bruce and James' coauthor Bill Frasure, joins to talk with Kit Langton, creator of ZIO Magic and many other magical ZIO tools & libraries. Discuss this episode: https://discord.gg/nPa76qF

Bruce and James chat with their long time friend Bill Venners about Scala 3 and the updates to his "Programming in Scala" book. Discuss this episode: https://discord.gg/nPa76qF

Bruce and James chat with their friend Julie Amundson about AI, Machine Learning, and many related complexities. They explore what the journey is like for Data Scientists at medium / large companies where everything from data access to productionizing models, has challenges. Also we learn about the Metaflow system Julie's team built to make this jo…

Bruce, James, and their friend Bill are working on a new book about systems that are Performant, Reliable, Expressive, and Productive. This episode explores those themes with some significant detours along the way. Discuss this episode: https://discord.gg/nPa76qF

With the eminent release of Scala 3, we chat about the language changes, effect systems (ZIO), and reliability. Discuss this episode: https://discord.gg/nPa76qF

All about Dependency Injection, why we do it, and why James thinks it is terrible. Discuss this episode: https://discord.gg/nPa76qF

Once again we lament build tools. Then we get blocked talking about Reactive, async, non-blocking, actors, and concurrency. Discuss this episode: https://discord.gg/nPa76qF

Bruce & James have a delightful chat with long-time friend Dianne Marsh about changing tech culture to be more vulnerable and diverse. Note: The Non-Violent Communication trainer mentioned in the episode is Karl Steyaert. Discuss this episode: https://discord.gg/nPa76qF