All the posts tagged #riff

2023-10-19
Riff: A "mycelium-clj" for the Clojure ecosystem?

In a world of concrete objects, steel frameworks bring sense and order. In a forest of composable tools, libraries and open-ended schemas, it would be the mycelia. A frustrated yet optimistic man muses "Might such a thing come to be?".


2023-06-21
What have you been curious about?

Arguably a more interesting, revealing, and kinder question than "What are you curious about?"


2023-04-07
Cold restart whole system after total outage

"What are folks’ views on systems so large where cold-starting the whole system is almost impossible?"... — M'colleague, Shivam, In A Slackroom Next Door.


2023-02-14
Bad Matrix

A while ago, someone in the Recurse Center nerdiverse decided we needed a "Bad Print". They made one. Things escalated. Bad Matrix happened.


2023-01-19
Riff: Classifying Tools for Thought

Trying out a classification for "Tools for Thought" as a means of augmenting the human intellect, hot on the heels of recent community conversations about ChatGPT, CoPilot, Stable Diffusion etc...


2022-03-25
n ways to FizzBuzz in Clojure

FizzBuzz is everywhere. Every programmer passes through its rite of passage, or at least bears witness to another. Over the years, many gentlenerds have taken it upon themselves to discover ever new ways to incant those hoary symbols. I hereby enjoin these few drops of Clojure to that roiling ocean of FizzBuzzery.


2022-02-25
Dismal Arithmetic in Dyalog APL and Clojure

Dismal arithmetic is just like the arithmetic you learned in school, only simpler: there are no carries, when you add digits you just take the largest, and when you multiply digits you take the smallest. How does code look in the two languages I like a lot; Clojure and APL?


2022-02-10
Poor man's Reader App with Pandoc & Bash

Every so often, I want to avoid opening a website in a browser, for ... reasons.