janetacarr

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by janetacarr 4mo ago
I have my qualms with Janet. Mostly, it's lack of package management versioning and lack of libraries in general (advanced HTTP routing, etc). I do LOVE that Janet can create binaries with JPM, scripts, and is very portable. I once put
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by janetacarr 1y ago
I'm surprised how much of dotLisp syntax made it into Clojure.
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DotLisp(dotlisp.sourceforge.net)
2 points by janetacarr 1y ago|1 comments
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How to Start Freelancing(fixedrate.dev)
1 points by janetacarr 2y ago|0 comments
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by janetacarr 2y ago
Yeah but that's not nearly as fun!
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by janetacarr 2y ago
Wow, thanks for the kind words. I've been bitten by the ops hellscape of microservices and various tech many times throughout my career, and it's definitely shaped how I think about designing and building software now.
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by janetacarr 2y ago
I'm glad you liked it! I'm using a PaaS, so I didn't want to pay the extra money for a cron job. Maybe not a wise a choice, but here we are. Totally agree about the issues I might face. I'm glad that the Clojure REPL is
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A simple core.async job system in Clojure(blog.janetacarr.com)
127 points by janetacarr 2y ago|16 comments
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This week is make it or break it to fix Section 174(twitter.com)
2 points by janetacarr 2y ago|0 comments
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by janetacarr 3y ago
Start smaller. You have to walk before you can run. I might be biased because I've tried and failed at a few startups, but this is what I'm doing: Try building smaller / easier businesses first. Try freelancing or try selling
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by janetacarr 3y ago
I've been self-employed for nearly three years as a freelancer / consultant. Though, I have a course I've pre-sold during the recent work drought. These pre-sales have been paying the bills. So there's lots of pressure t
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by janetacarr 3y ago
Only thing is, Agency isn't really dystopian imo.
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Building a Clojure CI/CD Pipeline of Certain Doom(blog.janetacarr.com)
3 points by janetacarr 3y ago|0 comments
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by janetacarr 3y ago
Context is very important in these kinds of use cases. If you work with something niche, I think these tools are less valuable because the training data becomes sparse. For example, GPT-4 produces Javascript code far better than it produces
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Clojure Transducers: Your Composable Data Pipelines(blog.janetacarr.com)
2 points by janetacarr 3y ago|0 comments
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Thriving in the dynamically type-checked hell scape of Clojure(blog.janetacarr.com)
3 points by janetacarr 3y ago|0 comments
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Building an Event-Driven Architecture in Clojure (Part 1)(blog.janetacarr.com)
1 points by janetacarr 3y ago|0 comments
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by janetacarr 3y ago
https://blog.janetacarr.com I write a lot about Clojure and software developer with Clojure. I only have like a dozen posts though, but people seem to like them (mostly).
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Ask HN: Has anyone ever done the Chief Programmer Team thing?
2 points by janetacarr 3y ago|1 comments
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by janetacarr 3y ago
ah, thanks for the tip!
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Ask HN: Who’s Working on the “HTML” for VR?
2 points by janetacarr 3y ago|2 comments
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by janetacarr 3y ago
Yes, mostly about the subculture in the 90s. The article is worth the read.
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Time Magazine Cover: Cyberpunk – Feb. 8, 1993(content.time.com)
7 points by janetacarr 3y ago|4 comments
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by janetacarr 3y ago
My take on MVC is that it's an architectural pattern to decouple state, state changes, and state usage.
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by janetacarr 3y ago
What does DER stand for? Google thinks I'm going hunting....
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How to Hire Clojure Developers(blog.janetacarr.com)
12 points by janetacarr 3y ago|1 comments
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by janetacarr 3y ago
I try not to toot my own horn, but I wrote this little quadtree library that tickles that elegance part of my brain. I try very hard to write elegant code. I have other Clojure repos, but they suck. :P https://github.com/jan
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Clojure/Conj 2023 Talks on YouTube(youtube.com)
7 points by janetacarr 3y ago|0 comments
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Ports and Adapters Architecture for the Functional Programmer (With Clojure)(blog.janetacarr.com)
2 points by janetacarr 3y ago|0 comments
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by janetacarr 3y ago
Momentum. I think the best advice I got on this subject was "the first five minutes are the hardest". I forget where I heard this, but I took it into my remote working jobs and into all of the self-employed stuff I want to do. It

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