Tag: Clojure
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My new keyboard
When I started using Linux, in the late 90s, I was looking for a familiar editing experience—something resembling the IDEs I was used to: QBasic, Turbo Pascal, etc. Just by looking at it, I thought that Emacs fit the bill. But it took me a minute of actually using it to understand how wrong I…
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Clojure has a marketing problem
I’ve been using Datomic these days, but the official documentation isn’t helping a lot: broken links, outdated information, no sense of narrative. If I weren’t a beginner, I’d be tempted to create an unofficial site and give some love to the material. In fact, I’m already tempted, despite being a beginner! Sadly, the problem goes…
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Evaluating Clojure inside an Anki card
These days, I’m learning Clojure, and using Anki to memorize key aspects of it. Last week, I managed to embed an interactive ClojureScript snippet inside my Clojure-related Anki cards. Even when I know the “official” answer, I often want to experiment and try out alternatives, and it’s great to be able to do so without…