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djblue | 3 years ago | on: Clojure Turns 15 panel discussion video

I think most programming communities experience fragmentation as they grow. I would say the javascript ecosystem has had an order of magnitude more fragmentation at every layer: package management, server, client, module specification. IMO this is the cost of progress.

djblue | 5 years ago | on: ClojureScript 1.10.844

I would say so, I have implemented a pwa https://djblue.github.io/portal/ hosted via github pages for people to browse through their data-structures. You can also connect the ui to a live host and send it data directly with tap> (kinda like console.log in js).

djblue | 5 years ago | on: ClojureScript 1.10.844

For me the real advantage is the shared information model with the backend that is trivial to serialize/de-serialize with something like transit-clj(s). It's like the benefit of js/node but with richer data structures: keywords, symbols, sets, maps with arbitrary keys, instants, uuids and extensibility via tagging. JSON is great, but EDN is so much better!

djblue | 7 years ago | on: Show HN: Tetris Implemented in ClojureScript

Thanks! I really enjoyed the data modeling aspect of this project. I also ended up modeling the board as a mapping of [row, column] -> color which might be different from the traditional 2D array representation.

djblue | 7 years ago | on: Way to store your dotfiles: A bare Git repository (2016)

The reason I want to be able to have different files for different machines was to make slight variations to some of my dotfiles. I used to use branches but it was too much error prone work keeping all my branches up-to-date. I switched to a system where I template my dotfiles, but now I have to expand those templates for them to actually work. I do have leverage when to expand the templates and how to install them. There are a bunch of different ways to do this depending on what you want but what I ended up doing was:

1. Template files using a syntax that was easy find / replace using a regex. You could use an existing one if you like.

2. Generate a bash install script with all the file variants embedded as base64 strings. I can build this script locally, but I also have a travis ci build that pushes up the install.sh script as a gh-pages like branch.

3. I can now curl the install.sh script from any machine I want and bootstrap my dotfiles. The only install time dependencies are bash, curl, git, base64, mkdir, and echo so it's a very portable self-contained script.

4. During install time, I use a case on hostname to determine which files to use and I use git to put them into my $HOME directory using a similar strategy described by the article.

github: https://github.com/djblue/dotfiles install.sh: https://git.io/vxQ4g

djblue | 7 years ago | on: Chicken Scheme 5.0

This is the biggest value of structured data, as soon as you convert something to a string you have lost all your leverage.

djblue | 11 years ago

I don't think your link works. Sorry.
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