Stumble upon in April 2025
While doomscrolling on LinkedIn the other day, a comment linking to an article/essay about what to expect from the newly inaugurated U.S. president and his administration caught my eye.
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While doomscrolling on LinkedIn the other day, a comment linking to an article/essay about what to expect from the newly inaugurated U.S. president and his administration caught my eye.
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I’m flipping through my quest log to reflect on the trials I’ve faced recently. Most improvements to the Clojure-based Jekyll clone focused on making the blog navigable.
This is the fourth part of the series: “A Clojure Jekyll Adventure”. If you’re curious about what happened in the previous chapter of my journey, check out: A Wet side quest.
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I ventured far and wide on my Clojure Jekyll adventure right after the last check-in. Then, fatigue (and life) caught up with me, and I had to set up camp for a little while.
The other day, I went on a little side quest and officially released my fork’s changes to the Liquid templating library Wet 💧.
This is the third part of the series: “A Clojure Jekyll adventure”. If you’re curious about what happened on the previous part of my journey, check out: Getting my feet wet with Liquid.
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We need electronic devices — like phones and computers — that we can trust, but with everything happening right now, America doesn’t exactly inspire trust.
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A little while ago, I was presented with an old 2016 blog post by Ricardo J. Mendez on Planet Clojure titled Complexity is the mind-killer. Planet Clojure occasionally resurfaces older posts when their ‘updated timestamp’ is refreshed, which is likely what happened. While not always ideal, this time, I felt lucky. 🍀
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With a little help, aws-simple-sign now supports PUT URLs and I have released a new version (2.1.0) of the library.
Even if you’re open-minded and free from bad habits and addictions, I believe you’ll find the following a great source of inspiration, just as I did.
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It is fascinating how we humans often choose to treat the symptom instead of addressing the actual problem — like endlessly replacing water-filled buckets with empty ones instead of fixing the leaking roof.
At least that is how it felt at work the other day… again. This time though, the problem was easier to spot in the code than usual.
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The Clojure library aws-simple-sign was in pre-release for more than six months. With a modest download count of just above 2,000 and no reported issues, I finally found the time to promote the 2.0.0-alpha1 release of to a stable version.
For those unfamiliar with aws-simple-sign, it generates presigned URLs for S3 objects and signs HTTP requests for AWS.
The Liquid templating language is essential for Jekyll and its themes. While a Clojure implementation exists in the form of a library named Wet 💧, ironically, the library is missing most functionality categorized as Tags > Template in the Liquid documentation.
Though we’ll touch on “writing code” in this next part of my adventure, it perfectly illustrates how problem-solving is more about thinking than just writing code.
This is the second part of the series: “A Clojure Jekyll adventure”, exploring how Clojure fares from a “Jekyll perspective”. You can find the previous part here: How my Jekyll blog became a Clojure adventure.
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