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Full Stack Clojure web app engineer
Joined Jul 2021
The original code author was new to the language (this was his first and maybe only project in #Clojure) and loved to explicitly return nil and check `(nil?)` all the time. It turns out, it's harder to remove explicit type and `nil?` checks than I thought.
https://orys.us/v0 what has been taking a lot if my time as I try to make our automated deployment happy on some project. #xkcd #deploying #testing
https://lib.reviews/ is ad-free and open source, though not decentralized. Looks very clean!
Does anyone know of a decentralized solution, like BookWyrm for movies?
QT: https://mastodon.online/@worldsendless/111025144006862463
When did #letterboxd become so infested with ads and banners? It used to be a solace that it was an alternative to the pushiness of imdb, a place q...
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Whenever I use `juxt` in my code, I smile a bit and feel happy inside 😌
(I know, it's a bit weird isn't it?)
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Working on free software is much more personally gratifying for me than working on proprietary software because the work will potentially benefit everyone as it may be shared freely. - Adrien Béraud. Read more in our #WorkingTogether series: https://u.fsf.org/409
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@worldsendless although this isn't a 1:1 equivalent, have you tried https://github.com/nektos/act ?
oi. Performing bisection while slowly waiting for the remote tests to execute because I'm debugging an error that isn't happening locally... for the love of all things REPL, I'm sorry...
I just found out about #SafeTwitch, soothing the annoyance of endless Twitch popups, interruptions, and notification-ads. https://codeberg.org/dragongoose/safetwitch I mean, I want to support the people I follow, but #Twitch is so heavy handed at it. Maybe I should just do a Patreon. All the proprietary services, making you suffer or use money to use them. #Commercialism at work.
The glory of #lisp like #clojure is supposed to be the smooth #REPL experience. I have gone back to the stoneage because github actions are receiving an error that I cannot reproduce locally, so I keep making a change, pushing to see if that effects the github test error, and then trying again. Like I'm back in the stone age.
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2023-09-04 Emacs news https://sachachua.com/blog/2023/09/2023-09-04-emacs-news/
Today I learned from a repo readme... caveat emptor https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caveat_emptor #til #noWarranty
Derived from https://xkcd.com/303/ to express my own experience. I don't often spend time compiling in my work as a webdev, but TDD and the regression tests take some serious time.
Any kind of content creator (and I am not a serious one) needs to sometimes cause the site caches to update for the image previews. I've done it for Twitter back before it got hijaXed; it was pretty simple for #Telegram, though.
https://orys.us/u-
#emacs is really really good at "undo". Undo localized to an area, visual undotree for when that goes bad; options for saving undo between sessions (which I don't use because I don't know what a session is... #NeverExit)
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A lot of stuff is just fine - Chris Coyier: https://chriscoyier.net/2023/08/31/a-lot-of-stuff-is-just-fine/
Simon Willison quoting this reply to hist post: https://robinrendle.com/notes/a-lot-of-stuff-is-just-fine./
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Web Development with Clojure 3rd Ed by Dmitri Sotnikov and Scot Brown
Stop developing web apps with yesterday’s tools. See for yourself what makes Clojure so desirable as you work hands-on and build a series of web apps.
https://pragprog.com/titles/dswdcloj3/web-development-with-clojure-third-edition?view_title
I regard Browser Support as a litmus test. "Not supported" in an up-to-date FireFox is just showing that you aren't serious about Web Dev. Especially you, #MicrosoftTeams
The pamphlet lists this as one of the bad signs, but I'm telling you -- same room #texting rocks for sharing plans without interruption in a room full of kids #HealthyLiving #DigitalDetox #PrivateInPublic
Full Stack Clojure web app engineer
Joined Jul 2021
