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I couldn’t resist a quick Google search for this. “Mary Jackson is a world-famous African-American sweetgrass basket weaver. In 2008, she was named a MacArthur Fellow for her baske…

Delightful metaphor, I'll be looking everywhere for a chance to use that now!

This whole place only stands up because of dang. Someday (too) soon, AI moderators will be all we have to keep the peace in our forums... and dang is our most precious training res…

A lot of comments on this thread seem to feel like the “why” of this matter is settled with an answer of “The men have more experience and are working higher-level jobs. Therefore,…

Very happy to see more tools like this. There is so much potential for interactive tabs and sheet music with YouTube videos. I only found out about https://www.soundslice.com recen…

You'll want to reserve ahead on a weekend! They have strict capacity limits, which is why it never feels too crowded. I'm amazed at how many of us in Los Angeles live here for year…

Would you be open to mentoring someone curious about doing so?

What a place we live in where someone can see "policing and prosecuting" as "basic government functions" rather than "community building".

This seems like a pretty low price to pay for the huge upsides of safer rides and potentially lower car ownership, on top of the more comfortable experience discussed elsewhere her…

I use shell scripts left and right for all kinds of things in my regular dev workflow. Running tests with various configurations. Complex tmux layouts. Syncing non-got data. I coul…

It features a time-travel database, if that helps! https://biffweb.com/p/xtdb-compared-to-other-databases/

Clojure has some very expressive destructuring syntax as well: https://clojure.org/guides/destructuring

I see your point here... I was addressing to the feedback loop during development time. Babashka works well for Clojure in a Unix tool pipeline. It's also possible to compile your …

Seconded. I'm also a big fan of Aphyr's "Clojure from the ground up" series: https://aphyr.com/posts/301-clojure-from-the-ground-up-welco...

When you get into REPL-driven development, the JVM startup time (which is often under a second for me anyways) is a total non-issue. You don't continuously restart your program to …

I use Helix [0] myself, which has tree-sitter based commands for moving + selecting up/down/forward/back by expressions. These are built-in and require no configuration. It's surpr…

HoneySQL is so, so good. It does for SQL what Hiccup did for HTML. Once you start writing with those, it's hard to remember there's any other way.

Check out Biff, it's very thoughtfully made: https://biffweb.com

Soon there will be! https://jank-lang.org

I agree. It's a breath of fresh air in the Clojure world. I'm grateful to thoughtful builders like yourself and borkdude for bringing the language to new heights.

I'll second that the popular tooling, while powerful and reliable, its just not user friendly. The official Clojure CLI, for example, is just plain confusing, and that's most peopl…

And when you're ready to take the fun to the web, look no further than Biff: https://biffweb.com

I'm an advocate for Clojure, and while I believe that the usability speed bumps are more than made up for, I completely agree with you. The awkwardness of Clojure's errors, REPL ex…

If you are new to Clojure and would like to experiment with it in a way that is immediately useful, I highly recommend the Babashka runtime for scripting [0]. It's very fun, approa…

I'll start. "Orthogonal".