To celebrate the 50th anniversary of Scheme, we decided to talk about functional programming: what it is, how's it going these days, and does it still matter in the era of AI. Although there's been 70 years of research into FP it still hasn't become mainstream. Will AI reverse or accelerate that trend?

TIOBE Index

The Next 700 Programming Languages

An Introduction to Functional Programming Through Lambda Calculus

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For our first episode of 2026 (and Season 4), we're talking about Amazon's Simple Storage Service (S3). S3 is probably the biggest cloud service, or at least we think it is, because it is super freakin' huge. We talk about how it's built, how it works, and how people use it.

• Building and operating a pretty big storage system called S3
• How AWS S3 Achieves 1 Petabyte Per Second on Hard Disk Drives
• Using Lightweight Formal Methods to Validate a Key-Value Storage Node in Amazon S3
• Picture Me Coding 2025 Spotify Playlist

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In this episode we discuss working in the Salesforce environment, and low-code platforms generally, with software engineer Kyle Willcox. Kyle's dev journey from a CS degree at UNC Wilmington to Salesforce dev to web app developer reveals a lot about both the benefits and pitfalls of working in isolated environments like Salesforce. Kyle is also a sponsored skimboarder and came to California to ride the surf, so he and Erik nerd out on weather and waves.

Low Code

Exile Skimboards

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