Last week, I had the pleasure of speaking at Functional Conf, a
functional programming conference that usually takes place in India, but was all
virtual this year due to the pandemic. I had a great time!
Here is the video of my talk, which was about how we can better understand the
functions in...
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I have a love/hate relationship with Bash.
It’s a quirky little language with many subtleties that make it all too easy to
make mistakes. It’s not uncommon for programmers writing Bash scripts to
discover bugs in their scripts related to a variety of things, including getting
some obscure synta...
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I’m excited to announce the release of Alda 2.0.0! This new version of
Alda is a from-the-ground-up rewrite that I’ve been working on since
late 2018, and I couldn’t be happier to finally share it with the world.
Despite the shiny new version number, at a language level, Alda 2 is almost
exactl...
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Over the last 2 years or so, I’ve been working on a ground-up rewrite of
Alda, the music composition programming language that has been my
passion project since 2012. Now that I’m finally almost done(!) with the rewrite
and just about ready to release Alda 2 to the world, I figured I should expl...
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Just for fun, here is a quick run-down of how I deploy my personal projects. If
you’re reading this and you have projects of your own that you might like to
deploy, then hopefully some part of this will be helpful to you.
Domains and DNS
Whenever I register a domain, I use Namecheap, not neces...
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5 years ago, I was doing some reminiscing about what my life had been like 5
years prior to that (in 2010), and I had a lot of fun sharing those
memories.
It’s been a long time since I posted those memories from 2010, but I’ve been
thinking about it recently and now I’d like to continue the tim...
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As you may have heard, I have been busy, working on Alda 2, a ground-up rewrite
of Alda using Go and Kotlin. As part of this project, I have
re-thought the Alda REPL experience to make it closer in spirit to the
nREPL experience that I’ve been enjoying as a Clojure programmer.
The big idea abou...
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Up until recently, the official Alda website looked like this:
I cobbled together that logo and color scheme sometime in 2017, and I was never
particularly excited about it. I kept telling myself that I would come back
someday and give the logo and the website a good redesign.
Among the th...
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Clojure tooling for Vim has been getting more and more interesting over the last
several years.
When I first came to Clojure, Fireplace was the standard Vim plugin
for Clojure development, providing Clojure developers with a great in-editor
REPL experience. I think it’s still the case that the ...
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Write, compile, run, observe
When you’re writing a program in a compiled language, you might find yourself
repeating this cycle:
Write code
Compile executable
Run executable
Observe results
(Lather, rinse, repeat.)
I don’t know about you, but when I’m repeating this cycle over and ...
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