I had the great honor to appear on Conversations about Software Engineering. We talked about functional programming and my book, Grokking Simplicity. https://cdn.podigee.com/media/podcast_998_case_conversations_about_software_engineering_episode_476020_eric_normand_on_functional_thinking.mp3The post...

Let's start right in the middle of the story, and play with cosine similarity. I'll tell you why in a few minutes. I assume that most programmers have forgotten their math classes, so "cosine similarity" sounds somewhat grandiose. Quick skimming at Wikipedia might puzzle you even more, but, scroll...

n 2016, the Clojure core team announced Clojure Spec, the most important addition to Clojure since v1.0.0. Spec allows you to describe and verify the shape of data (and much more) in a somewhat unique way. Having experienced developing a webshop from scratch in the dynamically typed JavaScript/Node....

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Senior Software Engineer (Clojure)Compute Software | USA and CanadaremoteStartup that helps enterprises to run optimally on the public cloud.https://www.computesoftware.comAbout UsWith ever-growing workloads on the cloud, companies face significant challenges in managing productivity and spending, a...

Conceptually metadata is an ability for the symbol or the collection to have some additional information for the Clojure compiler. It is implemented as a map data structure and is often used to convey the type information to the compiler, documentation and compilation warnings....

Welcome to the Clojure Deref! This is a periodic link/news roundup for the Clojure ecosystem. (@ClojureDeref RSS) Highlights HOPL IV (History of Programming Languages) at PLDI 2021 is happening on Monday and Tuesday and includes a talk from Rich Hickey about the History of Clojure paper. R...

Clojure encourages open systems....

TL; DR; If you have already learnt it or have the time to do so, then yesPhoto by Matt Palmer on Unsplash...

Last month marked the five year anniversary of Lambda Island. Five years since I quit my job, built a video platform, and figured out how to put together tutorial videos. It’s been quite a ride. All this time I’ve been fortunate to be part of the Clojure community, to watch it grow and evolve, and t...

Long time no see, my friends. We have been busy building stuff at Magnet and in this hot day, hiding from the scorching sun, I would like to tell you about a very special product that we have created in this hectic year; a year where we are all navigating each in our precarious way through the chang...

In this episode, I explore the notion of fit and how it is missing from the Stratified Design paper.The post What is missing from Stratified Design? appeared first on LispCast....

Recently FOMO got to me and I jumped on crypto speculation game. You gots to do bunch of accounting/counting/reconciling/tracking in it. Sounds boring, but clojure made it fun. And that’s what I want to share here....

The REPL 250 KLOC, 400 macros, and $750 million...

I was working on re-implementing the Stochastic gradient descent algorithm in Clojure based on the blog post How to Implement Linear Regression From Scratch in Python. Because I wasn't happy about the performance when the dataset is in the order of thousands rows of thousands features, so I started ...

Clojure has number special forms. Among them are let and binding that are implemented as macros. For new comers to Clojure, above can be confusing to understand, which I hope to address in this blog post. If you have read "Programming Clojure" book, you might be thinking that it is easy to use them...

Clojure's destructuring helps us establish bindings to items in Clojure collections in a concise, intuitive way....

What is Handlebars?Handlebars is a templating engine. It means that given some template text and corresponding data, Handlebars generates a document with the data inserted at the positions in the template....

Welcome to the Clojure Deref! This is a periodic link/news roundup for the Clojure ecosystem. (RSS feed) Highlights This week Nubank announced a new $750M investment, led by $500M from Berkshire Hathaway at a $30B valuation. Nubank is the largest user of Clojure and Datomic in the world and ...

Trunk-Based development. Yet another practice that is rarely practiced in our industry, even if it is identified in the Accelerate book as one of the technical capabilities that is correlated with higher delivery performance....