In this episode I talk with Sam Williams. We talk his introduction to programming, moving to web-development with Erlang, the HydrOS project, the Archain project, and more.Our Guest, Sam Williamssamcamwilliams on Github@ArchainTeam on TwitterConference AnnouncementsClojure SYNC will be taking place in New Orleans on February 15th & 16th of 2018. For more information and to register visit: http://clojuresync.com/.LambdaDays 2018 will be taking place February 22nd and 23rd in Kraków, Poland. For more information, and to register, visit http://www.lambdadays.org/.BOB 2018 is coming up in Berlin, Germany on February 23rd, 2018. For more information, and to register, visit http://bobkonf.de/.:clojureD will be following BOB 2018 in Berlin, Germany on February 24th, 2018. For more information, and to register, visit http://clojured.de/.Lambda Squared is a new conference taking place March 30th in Knoxville, Tennessee. For more information, and to register, visit https://www.lambda-squared.com/.If you have a conference related to functional programming, contact me, and I will be happy to announce it.AnnouncementsSome of you have asked how you can support Functional Geekery, in that vein,Functional Geekery now has a Patreon Page.If that is one of the ways you would like to show your support, you canfind out more at https://www.patreon.com/fngeekery.Topics [@About SamThe University of KentHow Sam was introduced to programmingVisual BasicPHPWriting a Meta-News analysis siteHow Sam first came across ErlangExposure to Lisp and SchemeGetting started in ErlangLearn You Some Erlang for Great Good by Fred HerbertProgramming Erlang (2nd Edition) by Joe Armstrong“If you want to really learn a language, you have to have some sufficiently difficult task, to make you engage with it properly”Getting a deeper understanding of the nuances of ErlangBuilding a web technology company on ErlangYawsehtmlMoving to write Erlang to run on Unikernerl as a final projectUnikernelsXenHow a final project worksRichard MortierMigrating the Erlang Virtual Machine to run on bare metalHydrOSDistributed Operating SystemWhat is the goal of the HydrOS projectIdea of process mobility across devicesArchainWhat is a block-chainWhat is ArchainHow block-chain differs from Git or CRDTsProof-of-workHow Archain works to incentivize distribution of archive dataWhat kinds of information does Archain hope to ArchivePreventing the “Orwellian Memory Hole”Internet ArchiveSome of the limitations of the Internet ArchiveHow Erlang fits with building a block-chainSimulating large networksArchain as a platform for writing distributed applicationsSam’s talk at CodeMesh 2017Code BEAM STO 2018As always, a giant Thank You goes to David Belcher for the logo design.