Viewing profile — robto

Seems like it draws a lot of inspiration from EDN. Tagged literals, commas-as-whitespace (and optional), and anything-can-be-a-key are features I sorely miss when I have to go back…

I think the flocking behavior of birds is one of the most entrancing natural phenomena, it's great to see it play out in such an intuitive way here. Is a quadtree generalizable to …

I've been meaning to try this out, from my read it's a declarative way to get some structured concurrency. I work in a codebase that heavily uses core.async channels to manage conc…

I think the RDF standards have produced many useful tools for those that work with graph data. And the W3C is a useful coordination place for new standards like Verifiable Credenti…

Haha, I read The Joy of Clojure way back in 2013 and conflated the different reference types with STM. So thanks for mentioning that, I always thought it weird that you'd need STM …

Clojure atoms use STM, though. I've been writing Clojure for almost a decade now, it's not that STM isn't great, it's just that immutable data will carry you a very long way - you …

One of the fun things about Clojure that reinforces this "trivially true" perspective is that maps and sets are functions: ;; "maps" the keys to the values (map {1 "a" 2 "b"} (take…

I wonder if there's any chance of technology like Verifiable Credentials[0] getting any adoption because of these laws. I think there are legitimate use cases where you would want …

Is the Cybersecurity Fabric an open standard? I didn't see any licenses in the Github repository. Is Tidecloak just an implementation of an open protocol? Or is it entirely proprie…

I could see using one of these as a landline replacement. I was lamenting with another parent the expense of a landline and how difficult it is for kids to call each other to arran…

All data is a graph, and so graph query languages work well for this. SPARQL is my tool of choice but cypher and maybe GQL (though that's new).

That looks pretty nice - my youngest lost interest once the stories started, and I think that was partly because the stories weren't particularly engaging. But overall I was extrem…

For what it's worth, the oldest got all the way through on his own power, asking to do it each day. The next kid petered out around day 45 and we didn't try to force it, but she's …

I taught my kids how to read pretty early (4, not 2) using the Teach Your Child to Read in 100 Easy Lessons book, which was astoundingly easy. Both kids are now in school and readi…

This is my goto: webserver: ring-jetty9-adapter[0] routing: reitit[1] html templates: hiccup[2] never used an ORM, but happily used HugSQL for making composable queries[3]. [0] htt…

Reminds me of the Minneapolis Skyway[0]. I wonder if other cold-weather cities have similar systems. [0] https://www.skywaymyway.com/

They say naming is one of the hard problems of computer science, but there's not much concrete work addressing it. I'd recommend Elements of Clojure[0]. Don't be fooled by the titl…

The list of text links is basically what https://pinboard.in is, basically - social bookmarking. I only use it privately, but it does have the exact function you're talking about a…

The books weren't actually destroyed, there is a shot of Rey with them on Millenium Falcon at the end of the movie when they pick up all the survivors. I was actually really excite…

I haven't seen much else that's competing in the same space, and it seems to be progressing as a standard, albeit slowly.

I worked on implementing this last summer in Clojure, is this the same URDNA2015 specification? I got all but three of the tests in the test suite working, but in the end ditched i…

Falling Free is a great place to start, as it has a stand-alone plot and introduces the setting very well. If you like it then I'd also recommend the Vorkosigan saga.