Update 2022-02-20: Requiring single icons using :refer causes ALL Hero icons to be included in builds (even optimized). Instead, use :as (multiple times). Examples below have been updated.
In my opinion, Clojure and ClojureScript is lacking in the documentation department, especially when it comes to integrations with things outside the Clojure ecosystem.
Read more...What makes up good software quality is different from person to person, making it somewhat subjective and hard to define measurably.
Read more...This post is about me. By me, for me.
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I’ve set out to solve: How to synchronize “low volume” parts of a database to a frontend in real-time, exclusively for reads. In this scenario, “low volume” means few entries with a low update frequency. Let’s say we’re talking about less than a thousand entries affected by fewer than ten updates every minute across all entries.
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Poor software quality stems from inexperience, time constraints, and software decay, but these can be countered by prioritizing quality. Not prioritizing quality leads to inefficiencies like slow delivery and higher costs. Investing in maintainability ensures long-term success. Read more... 
During code reviews I’ve seen the following repetition pattern a lot. I am going to use Clojure to illustrate, but it also happens in other programming languages:
Read more...I’ve released a small Clojure InfluxDB client library since my last post on the same subject, and as I mentioned I wanted to explore ways to leverage the /write endpoint.
I’m working on a project where a time series database makes sense and the choice fell on InfluxDB. I found mnuessler/influxdb-clojure an aged Clojure wrapping an older version of the Java InfluxDB client. Being all excited about diving into this new area I thought it would be best to leverage the existing efforts put into making InfluxDB accessible in Clojure. It took me a while to realize that I wasn’t comfortable with all the layers put between me and InfluxDB server.
Read more...These days I’m spending time looking into testing in Clojure. I’ve been writing my share of test cases in PHP at work. There we have several tests “freezing” time or mocking services. Both practices are common and something worth learning for Clojure.
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I find work-related inspiration in many places, among others, colleagues meetups and conferences. But most inspiration comes while aimlessly roaming the internet. I’ve always been interested in more than writing the code for the software. Whether it be participating in meetings and discussions that would help me better understand the business. Gathering data to predict how a UI should be formed for optimal user experience. Learning how to avoid making poor software design decisions that would bring the nice people in operations in trouble. But also the softer things like how culture and circumstances affect us as developers and individuals.
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