Show Notes:

🏕️ Join the Clojure Camp discord! https://discord.gg/V3ptswbabN

✈️ https://2024.clojure-conj.org/ - Snag your tickets soon!

🙏🏼 We’d like to give a special gratitude shoutout to the following folks:

• Ramkissoon and Jenny Roopnarine
• Alex Miller
• Daniel Glouser
• Geo Grigoryan - ⁠https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-KOJyoLWrg⁠
• All the fine folks at Clojurist’s Together

+ 🧟‍♂️ The OG clojure campers “zombietrainers/alphalearners”. We’re so proud of you!

• Wendy Randolph
• Recia Roopnarine
• Tommy Brumley
• Austin Meier aka KingBunz
• Niki aka _nixtwix

🤡 First ever “Clouncil” Episode - “The Best and Worst Ways to Learn Clojure” https://youtu.be/2WsEy1hl5kE

Summary

Origin stories, personal values, and surprising hobbies! Raf shares his journey from Kuwait to Canada and his passion for craftsmanship and pro-social behavior. Recia talks about her background in chemical engineering and thanks her parents for their sacrifice and hard work that inspired her top values of perseverance and compassion. Next thing ya know we’re discussing generational trauma and the potential benefits of suffering as a means of personal development (buddhism seems to be a theme this season huh?).

Surprisingly, Recia's hobbies include making yogurt and baking bread from scratch, while (not so surprisingly) Raf enjoys playing role-playing games and DnD.

Clojure Camp is a community-driven initiative that aims to help people learn and master the Clojure programming language. The founders, Jordan and Raf, along with one of their first learners now turned full time clojure dev Recia, share their personal experiences and motivations for getting involved. They discuss the evolution of Clojure Camp from a bi-weekly Zoom meeting to a more structured and supportive learning community on Discord. The founders emphasize the importance of accountability, emotional support, and shared learning in the learning process. They also highlight the positive impact Clojure Camp has had on their lives and the success stories of learners who have found programming jobs through the community. Tune in in two weeks for part II !

Keywords: origin stories, personal values, suffering, generational trauma, hobbies, craftsmanship, pro-social behavior, perseverance, compassion, yogurt making, bread baking, role-playing games, improv, Clojure Camp, community-driven, Clojure programming language, learning community, accountability, emotional support, shared learning, positive impact, programming jobs, buddhism, clojure conj

Timestamps

03:14 - Start podcast

11:30 - Exploring the Role of Suffering

22:40 - Personal Interests and Hobbies

27:11 - The Impact of Clojure Camp

34:41 - Leveraging Domain Expertise in Job Hunting

41:27 - Building Relationships with Companies

45:47 - The Clojure Conj & Supportive Clojure Community

50:31 - Outro / “Crab Canon Beats Part III” - Produced by L. Jordan Miller

Summary

In this conversation, Jordan and Sophia discuss various topics including Sophia's background, her interest in functional programming and category theory, her experience with Kung Fu and philosophy, and her work at NuBank. They also touch on the challenges of teaching and learning, the importance of creating a supportive environment for growth, and the impact of different cultures on learning and programming.

Keywords

Sophia Velten, functional programming, category theory, Kung Fu, philosophy, NuBank, teaching, learning, growth, culture

Takeaways

• Sophia's diverse background in programming, philosophy, and martial arts has influenced her approach to learning and problem-solving.
• She emphasizes the importance of creating a supportive environment for learning and growth, recognizing that different people have different ways of thinking and learning.
• Sophia's work at NuBank includes the development of libraries like Stateflow and Nodely, which aim to improve code quality and maintainability.
• She believes in the power of functional programming and the use of monads to separate pure code from side effects.
• Sophia's experiences with philosophy and Buddhism have shaped her perspective on life and learning, helping her to embrace the limitations of human knowledge and focus on personal growth.

References

https://github.com/nubank/state-flow

https://github.com/nubank/nodely

https://peter.gillardmoss.me.uk/blog/2023/10/10/on-forests-and-factories/

Sound Bites

• "Once you slip monads into things, it's controversial."
• "The atomic and a lot of our stack is not something that is familiar to many people."
• "Learning is growth. Growth is uncomfortable. Growth is hard."

The conversation covers topics such as the rebranding of Clojure Camp, Arne's hometown, his travels around the world, his love for tea, the differences between Europe and the United States, and his interests in cooking and gardening. Jordan and Arne discuss their shared interest in circus arts, specifically juggling and flow state. They talk about the European Juggling Convention and the meditative and mental benefits of juggling. They also delve into the topic of Taoism and its influence on their lives, discussing the philosophy of going with the flow and finding natural ways of being. They touch on the importance of self-awareness, mindfulness, and the potential pitfalls of narcissistic spirituality. They also explore the similarities and differences between teaching and leadership, emphasizing the importance of empathy and vulnerability in both roles. Heart of Clojure is a community conference that aims to create a holistic and vibrant experience for software engineers. The conference focuses on deepening the understanding of working in the software industry and building software for the world. It draws inspiration from conferences like Strange Loop and the European Juggling Convention, incorporating activities, workshops, and interactive sessions alongside keynote talks. The organizers aim to create an intimate and inclusive atmosphere where attendees can come alive and explore different aspects of their identity beyond being software engineers. Heart of Clojure encourages open source contributors and maintainers to propose interactive sessions, workshops, and contributor onboarding activities.

The conference will take place on September 18-19, 2024, in Leuven, Belgium.

Links:

Arne - https://github.com/plexus

Heart of Clojure - https://2024.heartofclojure.eu/

Overtone - https://github.com/overtone/overtone

Keywords:

Arne, Belgium, Lambda Island, , Clojure Camp, gaiwan, travels, tea, Europe, United States, cooking, gardening, circus arts, juggling, flow state, European Juggling Convention, Taoism, self-awareness, mindfulness, narcissistic spirituality, teaching, leadership, empathy, vulnerability, Heart of Clojure, community conference, holistic experience, software industry, software engineers, activities, workshops, interactive sessions, keynote talks, open source contributors, contributor onboarding, Leuven, Belgium.

SEASON 3 LETZ GO!

Thank you to sponsors: Clojurists Together, Nubank, Zane Shelby, Dustin Getz, Robert Randolph and superuser

Hey Friends! We're back!

email `heylilpodcast@gmail.com` if so inclined or you'd like to suggest a guest for this season.

Summary:

Hang out with me and my buddy David Nolen. We learn about his background in film and music, his interest in interactive media, and his journey into programming. We learn how and why he creates a musical environment at home. Plus the story on discovering Clojure and ClojureScript.He shares the challenges of maintaining an open-source project and we reflect on the masochistic nature of software development and the importance of experience in making pragmatic decisions. He expresses pride in his open source work and emphasizes the value of simplicity in tooling. The conversation concludes with a discussion on the balance between providing hand-holding and catering to experienced users.

Keywords: film, music, interactive media, programming, performance, improvisation, teaching music, Clojure, ClojureScript, new media, Lisp, Clojure, ClojureScript, open-source, software development, experience, pragmatism, simplicity, tooling

Produced by: L. Jordan Miller

Intro & Outro track: "CrabbyPatties" by L. Jordan Miller

🚨 CFP for www.reclojure.org is officially OPEN! To celebrate, a few members of the co-organizing squad have mobbed up to spill the beans about what this virtual online conference is all about. Learn the mysterious origin story of this epic online event. Is there an association with the London Clojurians Meetup group? Why is it virtual? Will it always be virtual? Wait, there’s a theme? What does “Clojure Growth” as a theme mean? Who are these keynoters? Why are these keynoters?

Strap those earbuds in and hear the answers to these questions plus get a front row seat to hear about the manic behind the scenes processes: Chaos! Control! Clojure! Discord! Zoom! Oh my!!

Finally, we reveal exactly who we want to hear from and what we hope to see in this year’s proposals.

Relevant links:

• https://www.reclojure.org/ find link to sessionize here!
• https://twitter.com/reClojure

Pawel: https://twitter.com/pawelceranka, https://www.nette.io/
Renzo @reborg
Bruno @BrunoBonacci / https://github.com/BrunoBonacci

Meowdy Folks! Guess who’s back? Back again… My L.I.L. podcast is back, tell a friend! 🤩  Full speed ahead into this season’s content train we have a chat with Clojure Consultant and Sassy CEO (Creative Executive Originator) Janet Carr who has been stirring the pot on the internets lately with her opinionated and entertaining blog posts. Here are a few links that are wonderful entry points to her content.

Hire her. https://janetacarr.com/

Indie Hacker article: https://www.indiehackers.com/post/crush-it-stop-it-profit-the-un-glamorous-life-of-consulting-9b0ffef9fd

The blog that started a revolution: https://blog.janetacarr.com/clojure-needs-a-rails/

That Bird app: https://twitter.com/janetacarr?s=20&t=eiLptRxowdSY9gzCuV3N2w

The tables have turned! Host of the defn podcast Ray Mcdermott shares his next big plans! Don't want to give too much away but you're gonna want to hear this! Could emacs be... usurped?? Find out his cunning plans for a repl-acement coming to a terminal near you.

https://soundcloud.com/defn-771544745

https://twitter.com/raymcdermott

https://github.com/repl-acement/editors

Slack channel name is: #repl-acement on the clojurian's slack. 

The code is not a lie. Join Chris B and I as we chat about how tf we have the SAME story? Cool! Starting with Linux in HS to doing some scheming to finally finding ourselves at the 2019 Clojure Conj. He opens the portal into portal which is the cool kids introspection tool that you always wish you had! Fun chat! 

Some links:

• https://vimeo.com/223309989 = Stu's talk about programming at the REPL
• https://vlaaad.github.io/reveal/
• https://github.com/djblue/portal
  

Joe and I first met at StrangeLoop 2021 and got along great due to our similar "Code is Data, Data is Code" soapboxes. A long time employee of Cognitect he has now struck out on his own to build https://www.crescent.app/ . We chat "crypto bros", crypto vs web3, choosing clojure and datomic as "weapons of choice", what is so healthy about fried chicken and his fabulous thriving dinner party culture they've built in the Nebraska tech scene. 

https://pawlytics.com/

https://twitter.com/solussd

Calva is distilled from CIDER both in spirit (trying to recreate the CIDER experience in VS Code) and de facto, using much of the same tech.The latter means that, like with CIDER, Calva's Interactive Programming support is made from the produce of The Orchard by proxy of cider-nrepl, a collection of powerful nREPL ops.Calva also has a strong static suite, much thanks to clojure-lsp and clj-kondo Many people are enjoying Calva together with Portal or Reveal both of which are very strong and delightful tools for working with, and visualizing, result structures.Calva treats beginners, wether with Calva or Clojure, with an interactive Getting Started REPL experience.The getting started experience includes an interactive Clojure guide, which is hosted as one of the drams in the Dram repository. The goal is to bring the guides to any Clojure editor.The guide is also available in Zero-install browser version: Get Started with Clojure
It is easy to Hack on Calva. PRs welcome! Reach out to the Calva Team and we will be happy to assist.The Calva Team:

• Peter Strömberg
• Brandon Ringe
• Cora Sutton
• Lukas Domagala

If you want to sponsor Calva with donations, please see Sponsoring Calva

If you only ever listen to one podcast of mine, make it this. It's soooooo good ya'll. I still got my warm and fuzzies. Get ready to get up in your feels. This is some profound stuff and it’s not just hash-map hobbits ya’ll. Gratitude, suffering, growth, trauma, cats, hierarchy and coersion, toxic techbros, dolphin communication, the Clouncil, giving back to the community, cats and soo much more. There’s a bit of darker section that I should warn you about starting from minute 35-40.

Here are some links mentioned:

• Donut.system Your new favorite component library. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lvuwxzONXbQ
• https://gratefulplace.com/
• The book The Body Keeps the Score by Sean Pratt, Bessel A. van der Kolk, et al.
• **Jackson Galaxy: Home**https://www.jacksongalaxy.com
• https://www.flyingmachinestudios.com/
• Unwinding Anxiety by Judson Brewer
• daniel@braveclojure.com
• https://theclouncil.com/
• @nonrecursive on slack and twitter
• Content warning- alcohol abuse, suicide at minute 35- 40 min.

Had a blast being interviewed on the Functional Geekery Podcast! Here are some show notes:

• My Mentee at Emergent Works: https://mrjackson2400.github.io/
• Dave Beazley: https://www.dabeaz.com/
• Coursera Courses I used and recommend: https://www.coursera.org/search?query=university of michigan
• vouch.io 

Since meeting at the conj a couple years ago, Paula has been a supportive friend and mentor of mine so I was delighted to have her on. Join us as we talk about her recent contributions to clojure, swimming as meditation, music as a hobby and her remorse (https://github.com/quoll/remorse).  

Yukkin it up with some buddies! Yet again I crash the Defn Podcast party- and let me tell you a PARTY it is. This is a crosspost and was recorded a month or two ago while I was on the road traveling through CA. [for some context] At the time of recording I was posted up in a sorry excuse for a hotel room with SHAMEFULLY SLOW internet in lovely(?) Silicon Valley, CA. We talkin mentorship, music!, web-development, react native with Krell vs reactjs, tailwind, how to use STORYBOOK to quickly dev components, the experiences of working at vouch.io and so much more!! Enjoy!!!

Bird app links:

Michelle - https://twitter.com/eemshi91
Defn Podcast- https://twitter.com/DefnPodcast
Paula- https://twitter.com/quoll

A bit more context about the stack at vouch.io:
https://vouch.io/developing-mobile-digital-key-applications-with-clojurescript/
https://github.com/vouch-opensource/krell

In one of my favorite ways to find people, I (well, Ray from Defn Podcast) came across Kira sharing some clojure lovin thoughts on that little bird app. Hear our soothing voices talk a little bit of shit on javascript, a lot a bit a shit on ego driven development, the importance of work life balance, how to pull off digital nomad life, spec, testing and so much more! This episode was initially recorded a month or two ago (hey post processing is hard!) so fair warning some of the covid related thoughts are a bit out of date.

Find Kira on that bird app: https://twitter.com/kiraemclean 

Ray too! https://twitter.com/raymcdermott plus check out the defn podcast https://twitter.com/defnpodcast

Catch Kira giving a workshop as a part of the re:clojure series!

https://clojurians.zulipchat.com/#narrow/stream/305782-nov21-workshops/topic/hanami-2021-11-21 https://www.reclojure.org/#workshops

YASSS, MY MAN! This is one for the history books, my friends. I got to chat with one of my favorite clojureverse role models of all time: Eric Normand!!  

• We hear about his new book titled "Grokking Simplicity" published by Manning (discount codes below!!). 
• We hear a little about his life and personal history in regards to how he got into creating instructional content (peace core? COOL!) 
• He shares his thoughts illustrating key concepts that will help you to be a wise architect while planning out and developing a software project.
• Questions regarding asynchronous logic, mutable data (don't be scared my peeps) 
• We discuss how to uncover the "universal truths" in your code base so you can write better code.  
• We get to the bottom of the meaning of "domain driven development" and how to compares it to a more data oriented approach. 

Personally, I credit his instructional work with the basis of my entry into the clojureverse, and I know I'm not the only one.  ENJOY!

Places to find Normy: 

https://purelyfunctional.tv/

https://twitter.com/ericnormand/

https://lispcast.com/

His new book: https://www.manning.com/books/grokking-simplicity

Special Offer from Manning Publishers!!

Here is a permanent 35% discount code (good for all our products in all formats) for your listeners: 

podlambduhhs21

You can refer to this link: http://mng.bz/drjN

It will last for two months.

Here is a link to the book we recommend "Data Oriented Programming" by Yehonathan Sharvit
https://www.manning.com/books/data-oriented-programming

Hey Friends, its been a minute! I produced this episode on the road, just in time for StrangeLoop! (which was an amazing time!) Thank you to Daniel Glauser who was a heckin great guest host to help me create this masterpiece.

I love acting as a platform for other people's awesome ideas and words but in this episode we get to know me a little bit more intimately as use this opportunity to speak my mind about some of the gender issues facing our industry. I promise, it's actually a really fun time :) Some things we are thinking about:

How do we get more diversity into the tech world?

How do we encourage these valuable groups of people to trickle into some of the more "niche" sections of tech?

How can having these different perspectives add to your team?

I don't pretend to have all the answers but starting the conversation is the first step, wouldn't you say?

CROSSOVER ! Collaboration mob cast alert! Ya'll I had way too much fun crashing "The Defn Podcast"- a veteran bringer of clojure content to your earholes. We mob interview Will Acton AKA lilactown about his ska t-shirt, BJJ, music, how he found the light of clj(s), react interop, his libraries helix and hx (and how they fit into reagent!). All the while keeping the constant stream of bad jokes and what is objectively probably way too much laughing for a "tech" podcast- but hey, hopefully you learn something!!! 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f9K9ry9PPe4&t=1815s Heres a presentation Will gave about Helix that answers a bunch of common questions.

https://twitter.com/lilactown_ Will's tweeter

https://soundcloud.com/defn-771544745 My buds who let me crash their podcast! 5 years of good stuff here! 

https://linktr.ee/lambduhhh follow for memes and some content.

Did you miss the announcement at ClojureD? Well, if you haven't already heard Clojure is getting a battery pack boost to its build solutions! Hear all about that and more! Plus we hear about Strange Loop! Great Danes! Clojure Fan Fic? Scouting! Inclusivity! It's a great time with one of the coolest leaders in the community. 

This is the clojure fan-fic referenced
https://twitter.com/lambduhh/status/1376629581600456711
Remember to register for Strange Loop!
https://www.thestrangeloop.com/

https://linktr.ee/lambduhhh if you want to keep laughing and learning!