Finding the Corner of the Internet You Love with Amsterdam Hackers

Two years ago, David and Tijn formed Amsterdam Hackers: a group
of developers willing to conquer and learn from tech problems
they had previously found impossible. In this episode, Esko talks
to the two Amsterdam-based engineers about the group’s
philosophy, as well as their two largest projects; the gbforth
and Delisp.
Guests

David Vázquez grew up sitting next to his
father, watching him code in Clipper. Having coded in Microsoft
Access and Visual Basic, he got into Linux and C around 2002.
David then learned Emacs and Lisp that introduced him to
programming language design and implementations. The rest is
history.


Tijn Kersjes discovered programming as a kid
when he realised you can create games rather than just play them.
Eventually, he decided to combine his two passions (drinking
coffee and writing code) into a software development career.
Host

Esko Lahti is an engineer who enjoys team work
over solo work of any kind.
Episode links

Amsterdam Hackers: https://github.com/ams-hackers

Delisp: https://github.com/liphe/delisp

Hindley-Milner type system:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hindley%E2%80%93Milner_type_system

Racket: https://racket-lang.org/

gbforth, a Forth-based Game Boy development kit:
https://github.com/ams-hackers/gbforth

Chip-8: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CHIP-8

Sokoban Game: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sokoban

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