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ClojureScript Blues
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I spent most of my labor day weekend experimenting with ClojureScript. The last time I took a serious look at ClojureScript was about 18 months ago, and the language and its ecosystem have unquestionably come a long way. There are some really, really cool projects being worked on - Figwheel. Automagically recompiling and pushing updated client-side code to the browser on write and some of the work around maintaining global. I encountered an extremely irritating issue. In many ways this first issue is the...
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What I'm Reading (May 2016)
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What I'm Reading (May 2016). My friend Keith Ballinger used to post on his blog about once a month with a list of what he was reading. I'm nothing if not a thief, so here's what I'm reading right now:. Design and Deploy Production-Ready Software. Given my interest in. Amazon recommended this to me and I was too weak-willed to say no. It's not bad so far; a very different focus than. But with a shared vocabulary. Influencer: The New Science of Leading Change. What can I say? One of the things I've been st...
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Using Transducers with Core.async in ClojureScript
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Using Transducers with Core.async in ClojureScript. I was working on a pretty big post last year when I was sidelined with a new job. And started writing a book, Learning ClojureScript. Working on the book has given me a lot of opportunities to explore areas of the ClojureScript. Ecosystem that I wouldn't otherwise have explored, and some of the learnings that have resulted have been pretty cool. Specifically, two of the things I've been learning about lately are core.async. In general, I think the funda...
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The Skill Endgame
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One of the things I've been struggling with lately is how to go from being a senior or somewhat experienced engineer. To be clear, I'm not talking about reaching a level of global fame (i.e. on the same level as Linus Torvalds, Guido van Rossum, Rich Hickey, or whoever else you idolize). What I am referring to, more generally, is how to get to a place in which one is recognized as having extraordinary skill. I started thinking about this more recently in response to a passage in a book I've been reading:.
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2017
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Every year I try to write a little something - a manifesto for the year. I did so in 2014. And again in 2015. I skipped last year, largely due to being busy and having too many irons in the fire. A lot has happened in the past two years. I wrote a book, Learning ClojureScript. I became very active in the open source Clojure community, creating editor and build tool plugins like ultra. I found a woman to be a true partner for me, my equal or better in every way. I learned a new language, Go. To it, then.
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Italy
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I just got back from a month of traveling in the UK and in Italy. What follows are some miscellaneous thoughts about traveling, Italian culture, and Italian cities. It turns out that Italians have what I would describe as an insane fear of public toilet seats. This causes people to stand on the toilet seat to use the bathroom ( I'm not making this up. The only place we stayed that had enough hot water for us to take a shower lasting longer than about 8 minutes was in a mansion maintained by the British&#...
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