(webdev Tory) 
@worldsendless@social.cleverlibre.org
Full Stack Clojure web app engineer
Joined Jul 2021
RT @paulschun
Clojure repeats as the top-paying language in the #StackOverflow Developer Survey 2022. Despite that, I don't know a single Clojurian who's into it for the money!
Clojure also ranks third in most-loved language. Pretty much all Clojurians I know are into it because of that!
RT @lambduhh
This is what I try to tell people! https://twitter.com/paulschun/status/1541543569013362688
One of the experiments my super-org is trying is Mendix https://www.mendix.com/, a low-code dev thing. I am admittedly biased because I don't fear code, which seems to be the audience they are aiming for. I like code, I love open source and see it as a tech-moral imperative, and I rejoice in the community made possible by open source workflows. Has anyone else out there rubbed shoulders with Low-Code solutions like Mendix? Is there any good take to help clear the bad smell I get from them?
Today for my Digital Education Minute I taught my kids about why passwords are a bad idea, and also the fallacy of Security By Obscurity, and showed them what an SSH key looks like. "That's how you do a password!"
RT @swyx
quick code snippet for calculating "X days ago" given a specific date, with localized language
and ✨no dependencies✨
this ain't your parents' JavaScript!
This man favors SQL! That said, flexible schema is a two-edged sword with NoSQL solutions. The advantage of loose schema, in my experience, is NOT that you don't have a schema (or you will never be able to find anything), but that you can extend that schema very easily. Research.
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RT @a4w_m6h
Having a flexible schema is not generally a *feature*
https://twitter.com/a4w_m6h/status/1540464318742937601
RT @dustingetz
3360 LOC for all of Photon, compiler, runtime, server, and standard library, including photon-dom (350) and photon-ui widgets (350) and including a bunch of inline RCF tests for the compiler which is too hard to factor out. + an additional 1200 LOC of language tests.
Weird stuff happens when you are trying to find the minimal fix for an old thing, knowing there is a better way but it would take a lot of time.
Thankfully, "me@gmail.com" is a valid username as just "me" so I didn't need to refactor my data structures or function.
Scratch that. If I have "gmail" twice in my authinfo it seems to always use the first one, regardless of who I've said the user should be.
@worldsendless@social.cleverlibre.org
All this time I've made an awkward and cumbersome work-around for having multiple log-ins for the same smtp server. The missing fact was that I can...
RT @a4w_m6h
The ideal candidate:
- have 3-5 years of experience writing JavaScript in a professional setting
- swift as the coursing river
- have the force of a great typhoon
- have the strength of a raging fire
- mysterious as the dark side of the moon
- strong opinions, weekly held
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"Can't Fail The Build Pipeline If They're Commented Out!"
submitted by Pfheonix
https://reddit.com/r/ProgrammerHumor/comments/vjrnav/cant_fail_the_build_pipeline_if_theyre_commented/
All this time I've made an awkward and cumbersome work-around for having multiple log-ins for the same smtp server. The missing fact was that I can have the same server specified multiple times in my .authinfo.gpg, and boom! No longer do I need to touch my /etc/hosts! Win for simplification!
RT @RobStuttaford
Github Copilot feels a bit like bringing a circus clown to a therapy session
RT @AdmiralBee
There's a pretty big difference between saying, "I have dryer balls" and "I have drier balls".
Spelling: it saves lives.
RT @bbatsov
The results look pretty good for Clojure, though. 😉 There’s always a silver lining. https://twitter.com/solnic29a/status/1539658410194784256
I have a 50k char limit on my QOTO (Mastodon)
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RT @fndriven
Sorry, but thanks to social media we now have attention spans like Homer Simpson's Goldfish. TL;DR https://twitter.com/TwitterWrite/status/1539640956915290112
https://twitter.com/fndriven/status/1539690855702880256
I ask because I suspect there are some solid answers.
To all the JVM users out there, other than momentum/ecosystem, what is the primary elevator pitch for doing JVM-based webdev in 2022? What does the JVM give us compared to Node, PHP, or Python?
Sibling comment: "it looks like it's from a video game." Like it goes with this:
Abandoned Children's Fever Hospital in Scotland. (c) Les Johnstone.
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Abandoned Children's Fever Hospital in Scotland. (c) Les Johnstone.
Full Stack Clojure web app engineer
Joined Jul 2021
