Brooklyn Zelenka

In the first episode of the Functional Futures podcast, our guest is Brooklyn Zelenka, the co-founder & CTO of FISSION, an applied research company developing local-first and user-controlled applications. Brooklyn is also the author of Witchcraft, a library for writing Haskell “fan-fiction” in Elixir. In the episode, we talk about her path towards becoming a developer, functional programming in general, and Witchcraft. We also discuss the good and bad parts of Web3. FP merch that doesn't suck: https://shop.serokell.io/ Follow on social media: https://twitter.com/serokell https://twitter.com/expede https://twitter.com/FISSIONcodes Learn more about FISSION: https://fission.codes/ https://fission.codes/discord Learn more about us: https://serokell.io/ Contact us: academy@serokell.io

In this episode we speak to Brooklyn Zelenka, CTO at Fission, a decentralized app framework for the future of web apps at the edge. We discuss the relevance of blockchain to web3 and decentralized web apps, why developers should avoid managing backend servers, the challenges of doing authentication and identity with local clients, and why web browser APIs are the place to build, not the native operating system. About Brooklyn ZelenkaBrooklyn is the Co-Founder and CTO at Fission, where her team is building the next generation of web dev tools for the future of computing on the edge - levelling the playing field for teams of all sizes.She founded the Vancouver functional programming meetup, and is the author of several Elixir libraries including Witchcraft & Exceptional. She was previously an Ethereum Core Developer, and continues to push the broader web3 space forward with standards like UCAN auth and the Webnative File System.Things mentioned:Twitter BlueskyIndexedDBElectronGoogle BigQuery StarlinkCloud BigTableApache HadoopAmazon S3Location transparencyDecentralized Identity FoundationRestful APIElixirElmHaskellGoWeb AssemblyRustNixOSesbuildGNU EmacsVim clutchTailscaleElixirConfDiscordLet us know what you think on Twitter:https://twitter.com/consoledotdevhttps://twitter.com/davidmyttonhttps://twitter.com/expedeOr by email: hello@console.devAbout ConsoleConsole is the place developers go to find the best tools. Our weekly newsletter picks out the most interesting tools and new releases. We keep track of everything - dev tools, devops, cloud, and APIs - so you don’t have to. Sign up for free at: https://console.dev Recorded: 2021-10-26.

We are very excited to welcome Brooklyn Zelenka back to the podcast to talk about her work at Fission and the ever-expanding frontier of edge computing! Brooklyn is a co-founder and CTO at Fission and she gives us some insight into the focus of the company's applied research. We hear from our guest about the projects she has been most excited about recently and she even talks about her newfound passion for fermentation! She does a great job of explaining why edge computing is potentially so revolutionary and some of the hurdles that are yet to be overcome on the way to reaching this potential. We discuss security and trust, tech equity, broad adoption, and much more before getting into some more Elixir-focused questions. Our guest shares how Elixir and functional programming have inspired her in different ways, as well as her perspective on some of the weaknesses of Elixir. At the end of our chat, Brooklyn gives some great resource recommendations for anyone wanting to learn more about edge computing, so make sure to stay tuned for that! Key Points From This Episode: What Brooklyn has been keeping busy with recently. A little about Fission and what their research focuses on. Tech and societal trends through the pandemic and Brooklyn's new interest in fermentation. Brooklyn unpacks the main mission of edge computing and some of the biggest challenges. Decisions around what is localized and what is stored remotely in edge computing. Addressing the issue of trust and safeguarding against data breaches. The influence of functional programming in Brooklyn's work on edge applications. Some information on Brooklyn's talk at ElixirConf this year titled 'The Jump to Hyperspace.' Our guest explains the concept of antientropy and its associated techniques. Thoughts on the problem of tech equity and how this might be tackled. Gaining popular trust for new technologies and their inevitable faults. Brooklyn's feelings about Haskell, and the inspiration she takes from it into her work with Elixir. The impact that Elixir has on Brooklyn's work in a broader sense. The route that Brooklyn took into the functional programming world. Brooklyn weighs in on the questions of Elixir's downsides. Resources recommendations for anyone looking to get more acquainted with work in edge computing. Where to find and connect with Brooklyn online! Links Mentioned in Today’s Episode: SmartLogic — https://smartlogic.io/ Brooklyn Zelenka — https://twitter.com/expede?lang=en Fission — https://fission.codes/ Brooklyn Zelenka at ElixirConf 2021— https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ogOEEKWxevo Designing Data-Intensive Applications — https://www.bookmall.co.za/products/designing-data-intensive-applications?gclid=Cj0KCQiA2ZCOBhDiARIsAMRfv9ITE1sFKIIcSwK6EGR04aW2RrFZphwrvDQxZekyhuPbEyuqKt6Td8QaApPqEALw_wcB Brooklyn's Tepache Fermentation Recipe — https://ipfs.io/ipfs/bafybeiawn23o6prk4kdhv4cpbfylzr5g2fr22umhvbshf4rlksfrgjzpga/p/Tepache.pdf Witchcraft Suite of Libraries in Haskell/Elixir — https://hexdocs.pm/witchcraft/readme.html Proto School — https://proto.school/ Fission Discord — https://discord.gg/zAQBDEq Fission Discourse — https://talk.fission.codes/ Fission on Luma — https://lu.ma/community/com-XuESjPQQHjh43pc FissionCodes Twitter — https://twitter.com/FISSIONcodes Witchcraft Suite — https://github.com/witchcraftersSpecial Guest: Brooklyn Zelenka.

In today’s episode we have one of our favorite recurring guests, Brooklyn Zelenka, joining us once again! Brooklyn has been on the show in both the first and second seasons to speak about Elixir and functional programming. In those conversations, it came up that this topic is far from exhausted, and since Season 3's theme is working with Elixir, we thought it would be great to have Brooklyn on for a third time. Today, Brooklyn does not speak to Elixir specifically though, but on functional programming more broadly. Fission, her company which is working on developing next-generation hostless apps, actually uses Haskel, but Brooklyn has a ton of experience across the board. She gives us some great insights into what makes the functional versus OOP paradigm great and helps us to understand some of the inner workings of both worlds, talking about abstraction, application, data orientation, and more. Interestingly, Brooklyn does employ some imperative programming in her company through the use of Typescript, but uses a functional style to get around the context switch. We spend some time toward the end of the show digging deeper into macros, and Brooklyn helps to revise understandings of them as code which writes more code as well as clarifies the term 'homoiconic' as it relates to ASTs. Brooklyn covers a whole lot more today so hop on for a deep dive into functional programming with today's great guest. Key Points From This Episode: • Why Brooklyn uses FPE: it can be reused and reasoned about. • Two things that functions provide: abstraction and application. • Data orientation and hiding information: imperative vs functional paradigms. • Understanding imperative programming: it’s less structured and hard to reason about. • Challenges experienced imperative programmers face with functional programming. • Differences between Elixir, Erlang, Haskel, Elm, and Clojure. • Using Clojure: tradeoffs, distinctions, tooling, flexibility, and compatibility with Java. • The language Brooklyn could use if only one existed: Racket. • Bridging functional and imperative paradigms through disciplined use of style. • Segfaults in Haskell related to its compatibility with lib C. • How to use Musl instead of lib C by employing docker files. • Algebraic types and why static types aren’t hindrances in functional languages. • Preferences for tests or proofs and their role in finding types valuable. • Macros as compile-time functions that are difficult to debug. • A definition of a ‘homoiconic’: high-level syntax which represents the AST. • What makes C macros different from Lisp ones. • Architecture in Elixir and the need for a more user-friendly Haskell. Links Mentioned in Today’s Episode: SmartLogic — https://smartlogic.io/ Brooklyn Zelenka on LinkedIn — https://www.linkedin.com/in/brooklynzelenka/ Fission — https://fission.codes/ Seven Languages in Seven Weeks — https://www.amazon.com/Seven-Languages-Weeks-Programming-Programmers/dp/193435659X Chris Keathley — https://keathley.io/ Hackers and Painters — https://www.amazon.com/Hackers-Painters-Big-Ideas-Computer/dp/1449389554 Paul Graham — http://www.paulgraham.com/Special Guest: Brooklyn Zelenka.

Hey everybody and welcome back to Season 2 of the podcast! This season we will be talking about Elixir internals, libraries and the inner workings of the language. In our first episode we are very happy to be joined by Brooklyn Zelenka to start off our journey on the subject with an exploration of her very own Witchcraft. In this episode we talk to Brooklyn about her history with Elixir, how she got started and what attracts her to it. Brooklyn explains the influence that open source philosophy has had on her career in developing and from there she gives a pretty comprehensive introduction to what Witchcraft is, expanding its key concepts. Although this is quite a high level discussion about Elixir and Witchcraft, we are confident that with Brooklyn's expert help even our most uninitiated listener can get some benefit from our conversation. We also talk about type systems, property-based checking and Dialyzer, so for all of this and more make sure to join us as we kick things off for Season 2! Key Points From This Episode: A quick introduction to Brooklyn, where she works and how she got started with Elixir. The influence of open source and library contributions on Brooklyn's development. Getting to grips with Witchcraft; defining monads and functors. Why some of these scary terms do not need to frighten you. A few little things that differentiate Witchcraft and some surprising elements. The convenient guarantees that Witchcraft provides around your data structure. Why there is no type system baked into Elixir; overheads, inputs and outputs. Property-based checking and compile times in Witchcraft. Merging of Elixir and Dialyzer; benefits and problems. Getting in touch with Brooklyn and getting involved with Witchcraft and Elixir. And much more! Links Mentioned in Today’s Episode: Smartlogic — https://www.smartlogic.io/ Brooklyn Zelenka — https://github.com/expede Brooklyn Zelenka on Twitter — https://twitter.com/expede Brooklyn Zelenka Email — hello@brooklynzelenka.com Fission — https://fission.codes/ Elixir — https://elixir-lang.org/ Witchcraft — https://hex.pm/packages/witchcraft Dialyzer — https://github.com/jeremyjh/dialyxir Learn more about how SmartLogic uses Phoenix and Elixir.Special Guest: Brooklyn Zelenka.

We talk with Brooklyn Zelenka from SPADE Co. about their current and past Elixir projects and how they are deployed. Brooklyn Zelenka - SPADE Co. Find Brooklyn elsewhere online: https://twitter.com/expede https://github.com/expede 1:08 - Brooklyn’s Background Brooklyn's background and experience with Elixir is deep. Huge open source contributor. Got started in Elixir just after Phoenix got to 1.0. 1:53 - Worked on several Elixir projects in production. 2:43 - Why she got into Elixir. Real Time More performant than Rails. Great documentation Industrial-grade 4:38 - When you wouldn't use Elixir. Easy to get stakeholder buy-in. Just point to WhatsApp. Elixir is made for 2019 CLI tools Repl-driven development TDD tools built in by default All the best practices we have today are built in. 7:14 - Where has Brooklyn hosted her apps? Heroku for POC's. AWS for production. Dockerized because "kubernetes is the new hotness" 9:40 - Do you do any clustering? Load balanced above. AWS load balancing is very standard. They're well understood and have a nice developer experience. 10:29 Are you able to get any zero downtime deploys? Zero downtime deploys. Awesome but impractical. Rolling deploys are easier and usually more appropriate. Some requirements make it valuable. Erlang error states. Exceptional. Allows you to build for the happy path. Don't worry about error handling all the time. Witchcraft and dark magic. Monads. Poke around the standard library. 12:50 - How does Elixir compare to Rails in terms of response times, and other aspects? 15:32 - What libraries do you use and what have you built? 22:41 - Any cool features of OTP you are using? 25:36 - One tip to developers new to Elixir Build up a peer-to-peer cli chat from scratch in one GenServer. Find her at @expede everywhere on the internet. Learn more about how SmartLogic uses Phoenix and Elixir.Special Guest: Brooklyn Zelenka.Links:Heroku Elixir BuildpackHeroku Phoenix Static BuildpackExceptionalWitchcraftQuickChat

Panel: Charles Max Wood Mark Ericksen Josh Adams Eric Berry Special Guest: Brooklyn ZelenkaIn this episode of Elixir Mix, the panel talks to Brooklyn Zelenka who lives in Vancouver, Canada. Listen to the panel and the guest talk about various topics, such as: different Elixir libraries, Quark, Witchcraft, Exceptional, ConsenSys, Meetup, among others.Show Topics:1:33 – Let’s talk about Exceptional for that library?1:40 – Brooklyn: Sure, it helps with flow.3:33 – You are making Exceptional more accessible?3:35 – Brooklyn: Yes, more conceptual.3:49 – Panelist: What’s the adaptation like?4:09 – Brooklyn: People seem to like it.4:33 – Panelist: What were you doing before that?4:42 – Brooklyn: First language was JavaScript. There is a huge Ruby community. Tons of Ruby refugees looking for help.5:27 – There seems to be a large migration from Ruby to Elixir. Have you played with Ruby at all?5:40 – Brooklyn: Yes, I have used Ruby for a couple of years. There is such an interest in Elixir from the Ruby community. They are such different languages. The aesthetic is similar, and the way the languages are set-up is completely different.6:41 – Panelist: So not having three or four different alien methods? I have been developing Elixr for a while now, but Ruby doesn’t solve modern-day problems. The fact that you have been working with Elixir since 2014 is amazing.7:24 – Brooklyn: The first library I wrote was Quark. Then that led into Witchcraft.10:49 – Panelist adds in his comments.11:06 – Brooklyn: There are a lot of different things I would love to see in the libraries. At what point do we say that this is the default style in Elixir? My keynote was exactly about this at a conference this year. Elixir hits a nice spot in the program place. It’s very accessible. I’ve brought into these concepts because of Elixir.12:37 – Let’s talk Exceptions. Will it become apart of core?13:14 – Brooklyn: I wouldn’t mind that it would become apart of core.15:10 – Any other questions around Exceptional or Exception or other libraries?15:25 – Panelist: Let’s change topics.15:30 – Brooklyn has her own company now.15:52 – Panelist: Good job on Roberts Overload!16:00 – Panelist: Where does block chain and Elixir meet?16:08 – Brooklyn answers this question.17:16 – Brooklyn: Not all block chains are...19:02 – Brooklyn: Another good fit would be...19:33 – Panelist: My company is apart of ConsenSys. I hear a lot about the block chain and others. How can Elixir help the block chain? (20:15) You mentioned earlier that Elixir could solve a lot of the issues that bock chain is having. Can you elaborate on this?20:21 – Brooklyn answers this question – here – check it out!21:21 – Brooklyn: By bringing in these concepts...22:16 – Brooklyn makes a huge podcast announcement!! Breaking News!22:37 – What does that mean – messages on a...24:06 – Advertisement – Digital Ocean!24:43 – The mail messages contents does that sit on the ledger or...25:01 – Brooklyn talks about this topic in detail.26:00 – Brooklyn: There is a distribution of control. I am going to have to run a program to check when a message comes in – I would like that to be hooked up to my UI, ideally.26:35 – Panelist: You are a fascinating person!26:45 – Chuck: You also do Elixir training for people?26:56 – Yes! We help companies and go to conferences. This is for zero experience with Elixir. Over the course of a couple of days to give people confidence production in Elixir. It won’t give you all of the knowledge, but it helps. This also gives people access to me, and my business partner, to use us for questions and so on.28:56 – You live in Vancouver. What is the Elixir community – through Meetup – what is the temperature like there for Elixir or Ruby, etc.? What are the trends looking like?29:31 – Brooklyn: Yes, check us out at Meetup.35:18 – Panelist: I think that is interesting on your opinions on GO with your background.35:35 – Brooklyn continues her ideas on this topic. It’s not to say that GO is the worse language ever, but from what I have seen that it’s a nice experience in Elixir that things work. All the libraries integrate nicely. There is a style and flavor that is friendly. You get the friendliness with all of this power. You can scale up very nicely from a single node.37:47 – Where can Elixir “should” go and could go?38:21 – Brooklyn answers this question and others.39:21 – Dialyxir / Elixir.41:27 – Dialyxir overall is pretty nice and it gets the job done with what Elixir needs it to do. Type system.42:09 – The pre-existing eco-system isn’t built for it. You don’t know if it’s safe to run? There is no way to know about this. The overhead for the programmer tends to be really high. Why don’t we add things like – adding property checks – to ensure that you know how this thing will behave when it run. Using some other techniques – not just in tests – but integrate it into the core workflow. This is really important44:22 – Advertisement!45:03 – Panelist chimes in.45:21 – Brooklyn: Have you seen Alpaca? I am sure it’s 1.0 now. It runs on the beam.46:15 – Panelist adds comments.46:25 – Brooklyn: This is why I brought up RChain earlier in the conversation.47:01 – Block Chain.48:17 – Panelist talks.48:53 – Brooklyn: At the application level – one of my projects is having a language that will run...51:17 – Chuck: I am still learning Elixir. So this is way beyond from where I am at. Let’s do some picks!Links: Coder Job eBook by Charles Max Wood Elixir Rails GO Quark Witchcraft Type Class Algae Exceptional Phoenix Exceptional Robot Overload Raft Consensus Algorithm Ethereum Status Codes Dialyxir Expede Type Class Alpaca Kaizen Matt Diep House ConsenSys / Ethql Metabase TerraGenesis TerraGenesis – Space Colony Wabi-Sabi RChain Brooklyn’s Medium Brooklyn’s Meetup in Vancouver Brooklyn’s GitHub Brooklyn’s LinkedIn Brooklyn – Lambda Conference 2018 Sponsors: Get a Coder Job Digital Ocean Code Badges Cache Fly Picks:Charles Make some incremental step forward – adding onto Mark’s pick - Kaizen. TerraGenesis TerraGenesis – Space Colony Honest feedback! What can I change? Phoenix Mark Workspace Environment: Kaizen – Change for the Better = Improvement. Josh Article – Value-Oriented Programming Eric Library – ConsenSys / Ethql Metabase Brooklyn Wabi-Sabi – seeing the beauty in things that imperfect. Special Guest: Brooklyn Zelenka. 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Panel: Charles Max Wood Mark Ericksen Josh Adams Eric Berry Special Guest: Brooklyn Zelenka In this episode of Elixir Mix, the panel talks to Brooklyn Zelenka who lives in Vancouver, Canada. Listen to the panel and the guest talk about various topics, such as: different Elixir libraries, Quark, Witchcraft, Exceptional, ConsenSys, Meetup, among others. Show Topics: 1:33 – Let’s talk about Exceptional for that library? 1:40 – Brooklyn: Sure, it helps with flow. 3:33 – You are making Exceptional more accessible? 3:35 – Brooklyn: Yes, more conceptual. 3:49 – Panelist: What’s the adaptation like? 4:09 – Brooklyn: People seem to like it. 4:33 – Panelist: What were you doing before that? 4:42 – Brooklyn: First language was JavaScript. There is a huge Ruby community. Tons of Ruby refugees looking for help. 5:27 – There seems to be a large migration from Ruby to Elixir. Have you played with Ruby at all? 5:40 – Brooklyn: Yes, I have used Ruby for a couple of years. There is such an interest in Elixir from the Ruby community. They are such different languages. The aesthetic is similar, and the way the languages are set-up is completely different. 6:41 – Panelist: So not having three or four different alien methods? I have been developing Elixr for a while now, but Ruby doesn’t solve modern-day problems. The fact that you have been working with Elixir since 2014 is amazing. 7:24 – Brooklyn: The first library I wrote was Quark. Then that led into Witchcraft. 10:49 – Panelist adds in his comments. 11:06 – Brooklyn: There are a lot of different things I would love to see in the libraries. At what point do we say that this is the default style in Elixir? My keynote was exactly about this at a conference this year. Elixir hits a nice spot in the program place. It’s very accessible. I’ve brought into these concepts because of Elixir. 12:37 – Let’s talk Exceptions. Will it become apart of core? 13:14 – Brooklyn: I wouldn’t mind that it would become apart of core. 15:10 – Any other questions around Exceptional or Exception or other libraries? 15:25 – Panelist: Let’s change topics. 15:30 – Brooklyn has her own company now. 15:52 – Panelist: Good job on Roberts Overload! 16:00 – Panelist: Where does block chain and Elixir meet? 16:08 – Brooklyn answers this question. 17:16 – Brooklyn: Not all block chains are... 19:02 – Brooklyn: Another good fit would be... 19:33 – Panelist: My company is apart of ConsenSys. I hear a lot about the block chain and others. How can Elixir help the block chain? (20:15) You mentioned earlier that Elixir could solve a lot of the issues that bock chain is having. Can you elaborate on this? 20:21 – Brooklyn answers this question – here – check it out! 21:21 – Brooklyn: By bringing in these concepts... 22:16 – Brooklyn makes a huge podcast announcement!! Breaking News! 22:37 – What does that mean – messages on a... 24:06 – Advertisement – Digital Ocean! 24:43 – The mail messages contents does that sit on the ledger or... 25:01 – Brooklyn talks about this topic in detail. 26:00 – Brooklyn: There is a distribution of control. I am going to have to run a program to check when a message comes in – I would like that to be hooked up to my UI, ideally. 26:35 – Panelist: You are a fascinating person! 26:45 – Chuck: You also do Elixir training for people? 26:56 – Yes! We help companies and go to conferences. This is for zero experience with Elixir. Over the course of a couple of days to give people confidence production in Elixir. It won’t give you all of the knowledge, but it helps. This also gives people access to me, and my business partner, to use us for questions and so on. 28:56 – You live in Vancouver. What is the Elixir community – through Meetup – what is the temperature like there for Elixir or Ruby, etc.? What are the trends looking like? 29:31 – Brooklyn: Yes, check us out at Meetup. 35:18 – Panelist: I think that is interesting on your opinions on GO with your background. 35:35 – Brooklyn continues her ideas on this topic. It’s not to say that GO is the worse language ever, but from what I have seen that it’s a nice experience in Elixir that things work. All the libraries integrate nicely. There is a style and flavor that is friendly. You get the friendliness with all of this power. You can scale up very nicely from a single node. 37:47 – Where can Elixir “should” go and could go? 38:21 – Brooklyn answers this question and others. 39:21 – Dialyxir / Elixir. 41:27 – Dialyxir overall is pretty nice and it gets the job done with what Elixir needs it to do. Type system. 42:09 – The pre-existing eco-system isn’t built for it. You don’t know if it’s safe to run? There is no way to know about this. The overhead for the programmer tends to be really high. Why don’t we add things like – adding property checks – to ensure that you know how this thing will behave when it run. Using some other techniques – not just in tests – but integrate it into the core workflow. This is really important 44:22 – Advertisement! 45:03 – Panelist chimes in. 45:21 – Brooklyn: Have you seen Alpaca? I am sure it’s 1.0 now. It runs on the beam. 46:15 – Panelist adds comments. 46:25 – Brooklyn: This is why I brought up RChain earlier in the conversation. 47:01 – Block Chain. 48:17 – Panelist talks. 48:53 – Brooklyn: At the application level – one of my projects is having a language that will run... 51:17 – Chuck: I am still learning Elixir. So this is way beyond from where I am at. Let’s do some picks! Links: Coder Job eBook by Charles Max Wood Elixir Rails GO Quark Witchcraft Type Class Algae Exceptional Phoenix Exceptional Robot Overload Raft Consensus Algorithm Ethereum Status Codes Dialyxir Expede Type Class Alpaca Kaizen Matt Diep House ConsenSys / Ethql Metabase TerraGenesis TerraGenesis – Space Colony Wabi-Sabi RChain Brooklyn’s Medium Brooklyn’s Meetup in Vancouver Brooklyn’s GitHub Brooklyn’s LinkedIn Brooklyn – Lambda Conference 2018 Sponsors: Get a Coder Job Digital Ocean Code Badges Cache Fly Picks: Charles Make some incremental step forward – adding onto Mark’s pick - Kaizen. TerraGenesis TerraGenesis – Space Colony Honest feedback! What can I change? Phoenix Mark Workspace Environment: Kaizen – Change for the Better = Improvement. Josh Article – Value-Oriented Programming Eric Library – ConsenSys / Ethql Metabase Brooklyn Wabi-Sabi – seeing the beauty in things that imperfect.

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In this episode I talk with Brooklyn Zelenka. We talk her introduction to functional programming, various user groups she has started, her consultancy Robot Overlord, and her Monad Nomad tour. Our Guest, Brooklyn Zelenka @expede on Twitter expede on Github @hailrobo on Twitter robot-overlord on Github Vancouver FP Vancouver Erlang & Elixir Code & Coffee – Vancouver Announcements Erlang Factory San Francisco will be taking place on the 10th and 11th of March, with training on the 7th through the 9th of March and the 14th through the 16th of March. Listeners get 10% off registration when using code FunctionalGeekery10. On May 2nd and 3rd flatMap(Oslo) is taking place in Oslo, Norway. flatMap(Oslo) is a conference about functional programming, mainly on the JVM. The call for speakers is now open. To find out more visit http://2016.flatmap.no for more information, and make sure to use code GEEKERY when registering to find out more. LambdaConf will be taking place May 26th – 29th in Boulder, Colorado. Keep an eye on lambdaconf.us to find out more. PolyConf 2016 will be taking place on June 30th – July 2nd. The Call For Proposals is now open, and will be taking submissions through the 13th of March. Visit http://polyconf.com/ to keep updated with news as more details become available, and http://eventil.com/events/polyconf-16 to submit your talk proposal. If you have a conference related to functional programming, contact me, and I will be happy to announce it. Topics About Brooklyn What Brooklyn has been up to since her previous appearance on Functional Geekery Interest in Elixir for pulling in Rubyist to functional programming. Generalized Algebraic Data Types Idris Brooklyn’s journey into functional programming Music Theory and programming Common Lisp Haskell Clojure First exposure to Common Lisp from JavaScript The Little Schemer – 4th Edition Transition from Common Lisp exposure to Haskell “I was told ‘This is notoriously difficult’, so I had to learn it” Starting the Vancouver Functional Programming User Group Doing Monads in Ruby Popularity of functional programming in companies in Vancouver Strategies for learning new languages Safari Books Online exercism.io “Learning how to do things idiomatically in that language” Witchcraft monad library for Elixir Impact on functional programming experience on JavaScript programming React Redux Using React as a stepping stone to introduce functional style in JavaScript lodash Immutable.js reagent Om Kicking off her Monad Nomad tour The Monad Nomad on medium.com LambdaConf 2016 Robot Overlord Robot Overlord on medium.com beep@robotoverlord.io Build a community around functional programming As always, a giant Thank You goes to David Belcher for the logo design.