A weekly newsletter and podcast diving into Clojure programs and libraries by Daniel Compton.

42: Faster JSON parsing with Erik Assum

Thursday, 7 October 2021

Download: MP3 - 00:55:37

Erik Assum talks about clj-commons, speeding up clojure.data.json, and asks Daniel what he's been up to.

41: Clojure pre-history with Chris Houser

Tuesday, 21 September 2021

Download: MP3 - 00:39:37

Chris Houser (Chouser) reflects on the early years of Clojure, Clojure's features, and applying the lessons of Clojure elsewhere.

Note: this podcast was recorded in April 2020 but not published until now. Some of the references are a little outdated, but there’s still some great stuff here that I wanted to get out.

In particular, it doesn’t seem like COVID spreads via metal surfaces very much.

(00:00) Intro
(00:27) The Joy of Clojure
(03:55) Clojure history
(10:55) Clojure and parallel programming
(15:59) Macros
(18:18) Lessons from Clojure
(22:30) Did Erlang have the right idea all along?
(28:08) State of the world in April 2020
(30:31) 3D Printing

40: Shipping Clojure code with Paulus Esterhazy

Tuesday, 14 September 2021

Download: MP3 - 00:57:44

Paulus Esterhazy talks about trunk-based development, monorepos, path-focused design, and fast feedback

39: Clojure Goes Fast with Alexander Yakushev

Tuesday, 7 September 2021

Download: MP3 - 00:58:47

Alexander Yakushev talks about performance measurement tools, and Clojure Goes Fast

38: Banking and Clojure with Allen Rohner

Tuesday, 31 August 2021

Download: MP3 - 00:28:26

Allen Rohner talks about Griffin, building a new bank, and Bazel
Griffin Monzo New Bank Start-up unit 2008 United Kingdom bank rescue package griffinbank/rules_clojure spectrum Griffin API docs

37: The Clojurists Together Foundation with lvh

Thursday, 21 May 2020

Download: MP3 - 00:24:44

lvh talks about the Clojurists Together Foundation.

36: Clojure CLI tools with Michiel Borkent

Sunday, 26 April 2020

Download: MP3 - 00:58:30

Michiel Borkent talks about clj-kondo, Jet, Babashka, and GraalVM.

35: Mature Clojure codebases with Łukasz Korecki

Thursday, 2 April 2020

Download: MP3 - 00:56:14

Łukasz Korecki talks about building a mature startup using Clojure. He also talks about how EnjoyHQ built a successful distributed team.

34: CIDER and tending the Orchard with Bozhidar Batsov

Wednesday, 25 March 2020

Download: MP3 - 01:07:39

Bozhidar Batsov talks about CIDER, the Orchard, Clojure, Emacs, Ruby, and style guides

Note: this episode was recorded in October 2019.

33: Peter Strömberg on Calva, a Clojure plugin for VS Code

Saturday, 23 November 2019

Download: MP3 - 00:37:13

Peter Strömberg talks about Calva, VS Code, Clojurists Together funding, and how you can contribute.