8 min read · Apr 16, 2016 -- Most of my friends are voting for Bernie Sanders. His rhetoric reminds me strongly of Obama’s in the lead up to the 2008 election — we’re hearing the things we’ve been say

I kid, somewhat. This title is of course based on Douglas Crockford's seminal work, Javascript, The Good Parts , which demonstrated that Javascript isn't a terrible language, if only you avoid the icky parts. This is my heavily opinionated guide to what a "good" production Clojure app looks like in…

When You’re Done, You’re Only Halfway Done // 11.18.2015 // Whattup with Walt You’ve just checked in your code, given it a version number and are about to send it to QA, but wait, are you sure you are

About Projects w Opinion Talks August 26, 2015 Million Dollar Products The mid 2000s were a crazy exciting time to be a hobby programmer. We’d suffered through a decade or so of trials to test our mer

Written by August Lilleaas, published January 20, 2016 This post is part of a series: Datomic Once upon a time (late 2011, to be exact), a small group of programmers got blown away by Rich Hickey's ta

I’ve spent the last few years rather flippantly stating, “Technical debt doesn’t exist.” What I was trying to say was, “I’m deeply uncomfortable with how our industry talks about this thing, I think i

30 Nov 2015 A recently popularized meme is the 10,000-Hour Rule , which describes the amount of time required to achieve mastery of a field. This rule has several implications: Since the required time

I love coffee . I really do. And yet I haven’t had any for 4 days now. Thefirst day was rough, I got the headaches that everybody will tell you aboutwhen it comes to the topic of caffeine withdrawal s