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Happy solstice! Today is two seconds shorter than yesterday, tomorrow will be four seconds longer than today. (At least where I am.) The light is returning!
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I'm increasingly using this as my calendar system. It's great to have something that aligns with weeks, since that's the main cycle that my life is organized around. All five season names start with a different letter. Add a Roman numeral week number (I to X) and a number for the day of the week, and you have a date. Today is D.X.1. When it comes to community organizing as well as open source, many want to contribute, but they expect that someone else will be their project manager. Very few people desire being an unpaid project manager. Just show up and do the work. Nothing quite says "Clojure is not a cult" like organizing the biggest annual conference at a freemason temple. My review of day 2 of heart of Clojure: 5 stars 🤩 Nothing went wrong, people juggled, unicycled, ate waffles and vegan cake, watched talks and participated in workshops. We had lightning talks about scrappy blogging, disney playlists, and styling components. The furniture just got picked up, I'm gonna find a safe place for my car, chill for ten minutes, and come out for the drinks at oude markt. Thanks to everyone who was here or made it possible. 🙏
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 @plexus congratulations! Will you publish videos for those who couldn’t make it? Would YOU like to be a @heartofclojure Super Volunteer? WE will refund your ticket, give you free drinks 🍹, gelato 🍦, and pizza 🍕, treat you like a king 👑, and be eternally grateful YOU make some time in the next four weeks to help with some of the final preparations, and help out during one of the two days of the conference (the other day we leave you alone, pinky swear)! (1/2) Heart of Clojure is organized by a very small team, and due to health and family reasons some of us have had less availability than expected, or even won't be able to be present during the conference at all. This means we're running on even more of a skeleton crew than anticipated, and with four weeks to go there's still a lot to do. I really hope some folks in the community will step up so we can lighten the load. We've put our heart and soul into this event, now it's your turn. (2/2)
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@plexus I "sort of" disagree. LLMs are a search tool, much in the same way dictionaries and thesauruses are. While these two tools have rigor applied to their construction, there is always a layer of subjectivity that is attributed to the human being(s) that compiled them. When all that is taken into account, they can still be used to augment a process that is creative and authentic.So - I only "sort of" disagree because your critique nails all the ways this critical concept is most often lost. Creating, yet not possessing. - Laozi, 6th century BCE, talking about open source Heart of Clojure tickets are now available for purchase! We have a limited batch of early birds so don't sleep on it! We are officially open for accepting sponsors for #heartofclojure! Here's our lovely Sponsor Prospectus which lays it all out in a spiffy slide deck https://2024.heartofclojure.eu/Sponsor_Heart_of_Clojure.pdf Now the fun* part of cold emailing starts, but if any of you lovelies already want to pass this on to "upstairs" wherever it is you happen to work or have connections, then that would be extremely appreciated. *not fun  What's your favorite "simple" tech? Anything that fits the template "it's like <popular thing>, but with one tenth of the complexity"
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 @plexus Ansible, if it counts (I guess by modern standards there are 10x and 100x tools that do the same) In light of Chrome's "DRM for web pages" proposal, let me just say that I've been using Firefox exclusively (mostly Nightly) for years. It's gotten really good. The devtools are great, the performance keeps getting better, excellent spec compliance. I really recommend checking it out. My name is Arne Brasseur and I wholeheartedly endorse Firefox.  @plexus trying to remember the last time I ran into a page that broke in firefox but worked in chromium but I can't, it's been years and years EU initiative to connect all EU capitals with high speed rail. Let's get this to the moon! Please sign (if you're EU citizen) and repost the living hell out of this! 🔥 🚆 🔥 https://europa.eu/citizens-initiative/select-language?destination=/initiatives/details/2023/000004
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@plexus the project page is not clear on this, are they aware of the already ongoing projects in this area or not? For example #RailBaltica ? Lot of things are already being done Has really no one created a LISP syntax frontend for the Rust compiler, or is my google fu just failing me?
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@plexus I tend to only use sets as functions when it’s a set literal or otherwise very obvious that the value is a set. contains? makes it much more readable in most cases IMO @plexus Isn't there quite strong concensus that functions ending in question mark should return boolean? Sets return the item, which isn't boolean, necessarily. The first #ActivityPubInClojure went well I think. We talked JSON-LD, RDF, and looked at how to convert back and forth to idiomatic Clojure data. Hoping to stream again around the same time on Sunday. Video: https://youtu.be/c8Gc4hIfSwc |
