How is Smalltalk so small? Four rewrites....

I did a solo coding session this time. We started a new application and added some basic RSS-reader functionality.Want to do some pair programming in a future session? Sign up here....

Every day we grow and implement projects together as a team, side-by-side. We write code, test, write again, analyze, calculate, write articles, make videos, meet, communicate with our clients… Neither COVID nor war can stop us.This year Agiliway turns seven. And all this time we are all about a com...

At Swirrl we help government agencies across the UK publish their data as 5 star open data. That means it’s published under an open licence in standardised, machine readable formats, and conforms to open standards as closely as possible in an attempt to join it to the broader web of linked data.Our ...

Welcome to the Clojure Deref! This is a weekly link/news roundup for the Clojure ecosystem. (@ClojureDeref RSS) Highlights Save the date! The Clojure/conj will return Apr 27-28, 2023 in Durham, NC! CFP will likely be in December/January timeframe. ...

Our today’s guest spent 4 days building a feature for his side project so that we could ship it together on Ship It!, while recording. The feature is called rave mode, and the context is Bass, an interpreted functional scripting language written in Go, riffing on the ideas of Kernel & Clojure. When ...

In a previous blog post (link) I introduced babashka CLI. It offers you similar benefits as clojure -X but with a more Unixy command line interface.In version 0.9.160 of babashka, babashka CLI was integrated. It is available as a built-in library so you don't need to declare it anymore in :deps in ...

Clojure beginners sometimes struggle with setting up a new Clojure deps.edn project compared to setting up a lein project. This is one of the reasons I've built neil. But not only for beginners, I've been using neil myself a ton too, to add common features to existing deps.edn projects. You may thin...

After writing a few articles about Clojure and working with this stack for a while, I have had a lot of opportunities to do some experiments, use different tools and libraries from the Clojure community, bring some of my ideas to code, and participate in interesting projects.All these different expe...

Senior Software Engineer at BanzaiAbout BanzaiBanzai builds software to teach financial education in over 30,000 schools and to over a million children and adults nationwide. 800+ community banks and credit unions have partnered with Banzai to sponsor the courses on behalf of 80,000 educators and co...

Working on Domain Modeling book...

In an attempt to be more organized and to avoid posting too often, I've decided to send this newsletter once per month (on the first Monday of each month) and batch up any Biff-related announcements etc. here. You can subscribe to get the next monthly update by email. If you're unfamiliar with Biff,...

First, a quick storySuzi, a software engineer of suitable caliber, loves writing Clojure. At her polyglot employer, she often uses her technical freedom to bat for Clojure every chance she gets. One day her manager taps her for an opportunity, the company wants to build a scrappy, lean internal tool...

In the last article we created a receiver function that listened to signals from our foot controller and started or stopped playback on consecutive clicks. The trouble with our player it that it only works until the end of the track. The start! function does not automatically rewind the playback. N...

Welcome to the Clojure Deref! This is a weekly link/news roundup for the Clojure ecosystem. (@ClojureDeref RSS) Highlights The Deref has been on summer vacation but we are back! It was great to see the announcement that reClojure is returning as an online event from Dec 2-3 with a focus on...

I started Clojure to avoid JavaScript while developing web apps. And when you use OOP, when the code size increases to a decimillion lines of code, one can see the strain of maintaining it. I practiced my Data Science skills with Julia, an excellent language developed for scientific computing.But th...

Speed up your Clojure debuging with a YASnippet...

Senior Software Developer at MyPulsegbp65000 - gbp85000 Function: App Development Location: London or Remote within the UK Job type: Full time, permanent Responsibilities Help drive product and platform vision along with implementing new features and deploy them to customers on an ongoing b...

If Clojure is so cool, why it doesn't top the list of the most popular programming languages? Let's figure it out....

This is the fourth post in a series about property-based testing. It describes how to restructure the original QuickCheck API so random generation and shrinking are unified. The first and introductory post in the series is What is it anyway?, followed by The Essentials of Vintage QuickCheck and Shri...