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I've started re-familiarizing with elixir for fun. Currently, I'm playing around trying to build a little dashboard that lets me track things like my sleep and other fun stuff.
The other day a friend asked me what I was working on, programming-wise. To my surprise, the answer was: nothing. Pretty much since I started learning...
I've been on a new client at work that uses Flutter and it has been a fun little sub-adventure. I say sub-adventure because this contract is purported...
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I've been thinking about the things that make it easier for me to approach new codebases. I'm going to try and list down a few. I have ti...
Today at work I had an interesting experience. I was pair programming with a few people (mob programming?) and while one participant was browsing thro...
I had some free time to play around with the Helix editor (again), yesterday. It's very cool, but I quickly realized that I was useless trying to navi...
Note: This post was originally called "Why not use Elixir Streams all the time?" Half-way through the writing of that post, I started googli...
What's this? I'm reading up on yet ANOTHER programming language?
Well, I did end up starting a re-write of firn. I'm having a pretty good time! I'd say I'm about 30-40% done and have probably spent about ... 35 hours on it? It seems like a lot for a project (and I suppose it is), but the learning curve for rust has been steep
I'm back with another report on investigating core.async in Trunk. My thread on clojureverse has evolved quite a bit, with interested contributions, including some from the prolific and prodigious Borkdude (who has helped me on more than one occasion).
After fiddling about with `core.async`` in Trunk I decided it was time to reach out for some input. It was a good thing I did; I had reached a point where I was mostly poking at the functions I thought I understood in core.async, and wasn't really reading their API.
I'm thinking about re-writing Firn in rust. I'm not sure if I will do it, but I've been thinking about some of the more fundamental design decisions that I want to consider when building software. Firn is built in Clojure, with a touch of Rust for the org-mode parser, and then is all compiled down to a binary using GraalVM's native-image tool. It's working, so why re-write it?
I would really like to better understand Core Async with Clojure; specifically, I want to remove myself from callback hell to see if I can make my clojurescript backend for a new project a bit clearer.
My latest project is called Trunk. It's a tool inspired by an application called "Learning with Texts". Rather than go into what it is (see the wiki page), I'll talk a bit about the technical aspects of the project and why I decided to pursue it.