Thereβs two kinds of developers: the ones who love #clojure and the ones that donβt know about it yet.
07.03.2026 18:09
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Thereβs two kinds of developers: the ones who love #clojure and the ones that donβt know about it yet.
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Babashka 1.12.215: Revenge of the TUIs
blog.michielborkent.nl/babashka-1.1...
One of the most exciting babashka release thus far!
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#clojure #babashka
When youβre the last one unwilling to accept #rust as the lord and saviour
It seems people donβt know basic things about databases because theyβre acidic?
The irony here, specially if youβre a #clojure programmer
This is what I am seeing across the market "Use AI to get more done, so the company can deliver faster with less added expense." And "Since its the AI tools delivering the increase in performance, no raises"
Given the current trajectory, a job in the tech industry may eventually require the use of generative AI tools, no different than being forced to learn and use a computer, email, or coffee maker if it's determined to maximize profits.
Unfortunately, quality takes a back seat to profit.
Why was Redis not in the Epstein files?
Because it runs in-memory.
Let's build a technology so powerful it can end civilization, but don't worry, we'll run it in a sandbox we vibe coded so it can't read your email.
JetBrains GoLand IDE showing sqlite3 bindings written in Go.
I'm still writing code the hard way. I'm slow. I like to think critically about every line of code and fiddle with variable names until everything looks right. I treat code as a liability and try to ship only what's necessary.
It's hard to imagine writing code any other way.
Like nix is. *Runs away*
Looks neat. Brb while I use an actual production lisp.
Is lsp built in? I thought you need to use github.com/emacs-lsp/ls... unlike neovim
Use 20th century features like LSP and better 18th century editors like neovim when?
eBay notification
This is why you can't afford RAM anymore
Itβs called βvs codeβ because the code is an enemy you are fighting
They hate us so much but we love each other more
Climate, the little #golang lib that lets you bootstrap your CLIs with OpenAPI specs allowing spec-first practices and servers influencing CLIs, now supports urfave/cli alongside Cobra and some perf improvements too! Feedback welcome!
github.com/lispyclouds/...
Being vegan in 2026: donβt use AI.
Image of Shax from Star Trek Lower Decks with the words "Sufficiently advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from malice"
We all know Clarke's "sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic"
Well we have corollary:
Computers are Garbage In Garbage Out and Computer Science is to do that as efficiently as possible.
Technically a Caesar cipher is military-grade encryption. They donβt mention *which* military
People need at least nlog(n) steps to get to where I am, because my life is sorted.
MPs vote to decriminalise abortion in step forward for reproductive rights
#booksky
should show them this: www.youtube.com/watch?v=uYhO...
possibly my favourite channel