A quick update (for me, as much as anyone else) of where I’m at and what I’m currently thinking about … March 2017: ClojureScript and Reagent I want to get up to speed on this as my standard way of writing browser based software. React seems to have conquered the world as browser based, reactive …
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Lisp is Not an Acceptable Lisp
Interesting to go back to Stevey’s Blog Rant from 2006. Quite perceptive … the ascendent Lisps today, at least the ones that have caught my attention, are Clojure and Racket. Neither of which really existed at the time he was writing (although Racket’s ancestor, Dr. Scheme did). Both of which do, indeed, have offered a …
Patterning …
So I wasn’t actually planning this. But I’ve been working on Patterning again in the last week or so. There’s a new version coming. The bad news is that it’s going to break the “API” and your existing code. 🙁 The good news is that there will now actually BE an API. A real one, …
Colourize Clojure Errors
Clojure is a wonderful language. The more I use it, the more I like it. But the default error reporting is catastrophically bad, forcing you to look through screensful of Java stack-trace for the needle of a bit of code that’s actually yours. I’m sure there are better solutions, but today I just hacked a …
Clojure Reader Conditionals
So Clojure is getting Reader Conditionals ie. a way to put Clojure / ClojureScript etc. variants into ordinary source files. It’s like .cljx files but without the separate pre-processor. Now the Clojure / ClojureScript compilers themselves will be able to pick out the variant of the code relevant to them. Most of Patterning’s core is …
Figwheel
Wow! Figwheel looks pretty damned interesting. Another item for my Mind Traffic Control queue … try using it for Patterning apps.
Conceptual Refactoring : Project GeekWeaver
A few years ago I looked at some of the programs I was writing, both for public release and libraries / scripts for internal consumption, and realized that even I was confused. I needed a new map to understand what I was doing. Hence I came up with Project ThoughtStorms. A quick and dirty overview …
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Clojars : A Note
Further to this story. I tried to deploy another small Clojure library to Clojars today. And found myself being asked for the passphrase to sign my update. You need a passphrase to unlock the secret key for user: “phil jones ” 2048-bit RSA key, ID XXXXXX, created 2012-03-05 I got into a terrible confusion. Because, …
Welcome to 2015 (part 2)
Bloody hell! I just wrote a blog post and WordPress lost it. Grrrr … The short resume was : yes, I’m late (Feb) continuing my “Welcome to 2015” blog posts. last year I got the functional programming bug. Haskell is pretty damned good, but I’ve fallen for Clojure because a) dynamic types, b) Lisp syntax(lessness), …
Clojars
Well that was surprisingly painless. I’m in the process of reorganizing the code for Patterning, my Clojure library that produces (visual) patterns. Patterning was built using Quil, which is a Clojure wrapper around Processing. But I wanted to be able to call the library directly from Processing itself (Java version). It seemed silly to create …