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The next BeClojure meetup will be on Wednesday, April 1 (no joke!), in Leuven, Belgium.

This will be another informal meetup (just drinks) at a craft beer bar named Malz. I'm trying to optimise for continuity at this point, which is why for now we do the lowest effort kind of meetup.

Please do RSVP on Mobilizon! It helps others see that there's some interest in the event.

https://mobilizon.fr/events/496659ea-e89c-4601-a0af-0ccc8e9633cf

#clojure #belgium #meetup #functionalprogramming

Five clojure programmers in a bar. Everyone is smiling. There are beer bottles and glasses on the table.

BeClojure April Meetup

April 1, 2026, 7:00:00 PM CEST - GMT+2 - Brusselsestraat 51, 3000, Leuven, Belgium

https://mobilizon.fr/events/496659ea-e89c-4601-a0af-0ccc8e9633cf

Playing with Qdrant to find similarities between my snippets.

Using Mistral's codestral-embed model to generate the vectors in my snippets backend app.

https://git.travisshears.com/travisshears/snippets/commit/9c0b8bef3cfa80884a32e801e224a163a12ce3ed

#clojure #qdrant #text_embed

Refactored my Snippets backend from XTDB to Datomic. Really enjoy writing Clojure.

https://git.travisshears.com/travisshears/snippets

https://travisshears.com/tech/snippets

#clojure

This week's @cassidoo challenge: min swaps to create alternating array. Using #clojure and it proved quite suited to this class of problem

https://codingkata.tardate.com/clojure/min-swaps-to-alternate/

GitHub introduces yet another #Emacs extension, because clearly what #Julia needed was a sluggish #Clojure knockoff 🐌. Now you can enjoy debugging at glacial speeds with the power of Emacs and the thrill of unmet expectations 📉. Meanwhile, GitHub's #AI #tools keep silently judging your code from the shadows 🤖.
https://github.com/gcv/julia-snail #GitHub #extensions #software #development #HackerNews #ngated

Julia Snail – An Emacs Development Environment for Julia Like Clojure's Cider

https://github.com/gcv/julia-snail

#HackerNews #JuliaSnail #Emacs #Development #Julia #Clojure #Cider

Julia Snail – An Emacs Development Environment for Julia Like Clojure's Cider

https://github.com/gcv/julia-snail

#clojure #github #julia

Thanks to our sponsors #babashka_conf is now fully funded (the venue + catering)!

Thanks to Nubank, Exoscale, Bob, Flexiana and Itonomi for chipping in and providing a free Clojure conference!

https://babashka.org/conf/#sponsors

Our conference t-shirt is now also for sale. We don't sell them at the conference, so order your own if you want one!

https://www.etsy.com/listing/4469624707/babashka-conf-amsterdam-2026

#babashka #clojure

I was able to finish reading all of “The Genius of Lisp“ by @cdegroot and the whole book was as good as the free preview (chapter 8). I was able to speed-read through the detailed explanations of concepts I already knew, like tail recursion, garbage collection, the Y-combinator, Currying functions, and so on. But there were parts where I slowed down and read carefully, like the section on the Universal Turing Machine, and some of the details of the IBM-704 system architecture. Also the story of how the first Lisp implementation was created when one of McCarthy’s grad students implemented an M-Expression calculator, this was described in slightly more detail than what I recall McCarthy himself explaining in his 1960 paper — that or I had just forgotten those parts of the story.

The tone of this book reminds me a lot of popular physics books like Stephen Hawking’s “A Brief History of Time,” which was aimed more at general audiences than professionals. That said, there is a lot to enjoy about this book for professionals like myself as well. There are many good stories about the principals designers of Lisp throughout. The sections on the commercialization of Lisp for the first AI boom of the 1970s and it’s subsequent “AI winter,” were very interesting to read. And if you are a teacher, you might like how some of the concepts in the book are explained.

And I would definitely recommend this very strongly to 3rd-year high school students, or 1st and 2nd year college students, who are more genuinely curious about how computers work and want to know more than just how to make the next billion dollar app.

The next #LispyGopherClimate show with @screwlisp I look forward to talking about this book some more.

#tech #software #Lisp #ProgrammingLanguages #SchemeLang #Scheme #Clojure #Emacs #EmacsLisp #RetroComputing #LispyGopherClimateShow

Ensuring correctness through the type system https://lobste.rs/s/cytiqp #clojure #gleam #java #testing
https://lindbakk.com/blog/ensuring-correctness-through-the-type-system

Just unpinned #python from my Mastodon app view. Realized I haven't been really paying attention to the pinned column for quite a while. It was my last pinned programming language tag, following the fate of #rust and #clojure before it.

I'd say my recovering from software industry is going well :-)

In the light of discussions in the #Clojure community and also addressing a section in yesterday’s #ClojuristsTogether newsletter:

My experience using LLM coding agents + Clojure has been stellar. It's a great mach.

Imo this is due to a combination of
1) the REPL giving a coding agent immediate feedback and it can evaluate code in the running instance’s context
2) language stability and simplicity: no confusion about new vs. old language contructs, hardly any hallucinations

#LLMs