Happy Path Programming Podcast
1) #117 Special Episode: Entering Computer Science as a New Graduate
At Western State Colorado University in Gunnison on Sept 11, 2025, Bruce Eckel, Bill Venners and Dianne Marsh each give their own 10-minute perspectives on finding fulfillment in the field, especially...Show More
2) #116 Infrastructure as Effects with Sam Goodwin
Infrastructure as Code (IaC) is "code" but without most of the benefits of being code. Sam Goodwin is reinventing IaC with Alchemy and an upcoming Alchemy Effect project which aims to manage infrastru...Show More
3) #115 More Python Type Checking! Pyrefly with Aaron Pollack & Steven Troxler
Excitement around Python type checking continues to grow and the tools continue to evolve. We chat with Aaron Pollack and Steven Troxler about Pyrefly - a Rust-based Python type checker and IDE exten...Show More
4) #114 ty: Fast Python Type Checking with Carl Meyer
Carl Meyer works on the ty Python type checker, built in Rust by Astral the creators of Ruff and uv. We chat about type systems, the evolution of static typing in Python, and the focus on performance....Show More
5) #113 Graph & RAG with Jennifer Reif
We chat with Jennifer Reif about integrating LLMs with data using RAG, vectorized data, and Graph databases.Discuss this episode: discord.gg/XVKD2uPKyF
6) #112 AI Agents Get More 9's with Rod Johnson
Rod Johnson, creator of the Spring Framework, has created a JVM-based AI Agent framework called Embabel. We dive in and learn how enterprises can build more reliable Agents using deterministic plannin...Show More
7) #111 Wasm & MCP with Steve Manuel
We chat with Steve Manuel (of dylibso.com and mcp.run) about LLM "plugins" with Wasm & MCP (Model Context Protocol).Discuss this episode: discord.gg/XVKD2uPKyF
8) #110 Unlocking Developer Productivity with Justin Reock
Justin Reock has spent a lot of his career thinking about how to help developers be more productive. In this episode we learn about the methodologies that can help developers spend more time in "flow ...Show More
9) #109 AI, LLMs, and MCP with Lize Raes
Lize Raes teaches us about AI models, LLMs, Tools, Agents, and MCP.Article from Anthropic on Agent architectures: Building effective agentsDiscuss this episode: discord.gg/XVKD2uPKyF
10) #108 Winter Tech Forum and Current Projects
Join us at the 2025 Winter Tech Forum! www.wintertechforum.com Projects Mentioned: uv for Python TypeScript Effect Pkl CloudFormation Extras Pkl GitHub Actions Other Episodes Mentioned: #...Show More