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I'm tickled you asked ChatGPT but I think it misses the the forest for the trees somewhat. 1. Architecture - XTDB is designed to work with Kafka, but it also works with typical JDB…

Can you elaborate?

Then you're asking a rhetorical question to be snarky.

The following quote was written in 1930, in the New York Times: "Some day no one will have to work more than two days a week... The human being can consume so much and no more. Whe…

That's an interesting take. What makes you think diversity played a major role? Does this happen often in your country? Where I am "diversity" hiring would be regarded as dysfuncti…

To each their own! I feel the same way about Algol family languages, too many arbitrary design decisions that have been internalised for decades at this point for my liking.

SBCL's save-lisp-and-die is my all time favourite function name. It's so unintentionally melodramatic :)

I have no intention of being snarky and I'd like to engage in good faith, but I'm aware of how this will read: How is it a useful metaphor? I don't understand how you can use it to…

I may be mistaken but I think Electric Clojure renders HTMX unnecessary. Where HTMX still works by a developer specifying the network calls (albeit in a declarative manner), Electr…

As a security guy I would say this situation happens with reasonable frequency in REST web frameworks where developers are encouraged to use ORMs[0], and the design of Hyperfiddle/…

State is data over time!

* Predictability and convention are more important than totally clean design. Over the course of a language lifetime, code style best practice is going to change so you almost cert…

My recommendation is to use Portacle as your IDE and run through Practical Common Lisp by Peter Seibel over the course of a few days. Both are available for free online and very ea…