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Elm Town 88 – Wonder: Unconscious bias with Felienne Hermans
Category: Technology
Duration: 01:44:56
Publish Date: 2025-12-16 10:00:00
Description:

Felienne Hermans relates her journey in programming—writing The Programmer's Brain, uncovering biases within computing culture & herself, and building the multilingual, gradual-syntax programming language Hedy. We even dip into AI (trigger warning) and dumb phones.

Thanks to our sponsor, Logistically. Email: elmtown@logisticallyinc.com.

Music by Jesse Moore.
Edited by Toni Cañete.

Recording date: 2025.04.08

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Show notes

[00:00:26] Sponsored by Logistically

[00:00:48] Introducing Felienne Hermans

[00:04:09] The costs of misconceptions

[00:09:51] Journey to computer science

[00:14:33] Programming culture: challenges and creativity

[00:21:36] Bias and building a multi-lingual programming language

[00:28:35] Hedy's gradual syntax

[00:38:12] Programming language community, learning, and valuing hard things

[00:47:19] How language design choices affect cognitive load

[00:56:22] History of women in computing

[01:03:40] Kotodama (言霊): What's in a name?

[01:08:49] Switching to a dumb phone

[01:16:48] AI

[01:30:10] Picks

Felienne's picks

Jared's pick
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