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Full Stack Clojure web app engineer
Joined Jul 2021
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emacs, lisp, guix, guile, scheme excitement thread
@cwebber Yay! Power and freedom! #emacs, #guix and #lisp allow me to bend reality to whatever looks good to me and gets the job done. No weird contraints imposed by language designers to hold me back or make we feel like I'm "doing it wrong". Both #emacs and #guix have some weird point of no return and passing it is almost a physical experience. #clojure for business hours and #scheme for spare time.
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Remember when always-listening Amazon Alexa was going to be inevitable?
https://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-alexa-business-failure-10-bn-losses-2022-11
How about Google Glass?
Big Tech PR always tells us that each new #SurveillanceCapitalism technology is somehow going to be inevitable until…it isn't.
Today's "inevitable" surveillance is #adtech built into web browsers. Maybe it will be the next ALPR and actually get widely deployed, or, maybe it will go the way of other once-inevitable surveillance systems
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An interesting article on how to use #babashka in git hooks!
https://blaster.ai/blog/posts/manage-git-hooks-w-babashka.html
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#AdventOfCode teaches you the rarely used parts of your language. I grep'd our ~100kloc #clojure code base and noticed that not a single time we use `reductions`. `frequencies` we use 4 times. When doing #AdventOfCode those functions are frequently used!
What began as issues with the routing became other blinding issues with our #logging apparently ceasing -- both to file and to database -- for unknown reason after just a few minutes. #TroubleshootingCascade
Gotta say, this is pretty cool. Finally some nice #json viewing in #emacs! https://github.com/iwahbe/jsonian
abruptly my three-monitor setup, which has been working for years, stopped because it couldn't find my 1600x900 mode. An hour later it is good again. #GhostsInTheMachine
I have never viewed epub before os thought I would try it. Because of dependencies and non-github repos, the #emacs #straight.el install had a few more steps. https://orys.us/uw
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Biff tutorial: build a chat app step-by-step
https://biffweb.com/p/tutorial/
Discussions: https://discu.eu/q/https://biffweb.com/p/tutorial/
I just added most of my qoto followings to my #RSS reader. Let's play with that a bit.
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#introduction
Hi there! My name is Scott Starkey, and I'm a Clojure back-end developer for CataBoom, a gamification marketing company. In my spare time, I'm also a part-time professional magician and a probably psychic entertainer.
Other interests include the international language Esperanto, board games (design and playing). I'm an illustrator / cartoonist for my game design projects.
#Clojure #BackEndDev #CataBoom #gamification #magician #magic #psychic #Esperanto #illustrator #boardgame
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Scittle: execute Clojure(Script) directly from browser script tags via SCI!
v0.4.11 released: you can now use re-frame from scittle!
You can play around with re-frame here:
I came across blog (RSS) to Mastodon in a topic recently, and am now seriously considering it, with a Karl Volt-style "built to last" mentality -- read Mastodon via #RSS-feeds, post to #Mastodon via my #blogs. Any killer suggestions? @publicvoit #BuiltToLast
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Had the honour to be guest on the first episode of "Show me your REPL" with @niquola !
RT @tonyaldon
Sometimes you want the power of text, sometimes you want the power of data.
In org-mode buffer there is no trade-off, we have both!
Indeed the content of an org-mode buffers is not only TEXT...
IT IS ALSO DATA.
AND THIS IS #emacs
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The thing about ghosts in the machine is that sometimes they just fix themselves as suddenly as they broke. #GhostsInTheMachine
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I can't help but notice many toots from helpful newbies encouraging you to support the Mastodon Patreon.
It's fine to do that but understand it goes to just two big instances and the official Mastodon dev team.
It does NOT trickle down to YOUR instance. If you want to support your server, donate to it directly. Nearly all the costs of the explosive growth of the past few weeks is borne by local instances.
Mastodon is decentralized. There is no Mastodon Inc. This is not Twitter.
Full Stack Clojure web app engineer
Joined Jul 2021
