David Nolen

@swannodette

musician, Lisp, JavaScript, Kitchen Table Coders, Baduk

Brooklyn, NY
swannodette.github.com
Joined March 2007
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  1. May 22

    Given the generally compromised state of modern software development this is the reason I find LISP still incredibly useful. I can REPL into your shitty environment and make something reasonable for day to day work.

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  2. May 22

    Also highlights the general misunderstanding that programming languages can really solve anything of consequence outside of *environments*.

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  3. May 22

    Also a good example of very high quality creative software that’s completely free (since 2002)

    Of all the bits of creative software I’ve tried learning to use, really only SuperCollider has even remotely approached feeling like a “tool for thought”. Truly embracing the original Smalltalk ideas instead of just empty lip service paid off big time.
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  4. May 22

    Of all the bits of creative software I’ve tried learning to use, really only SuperCollider has even remotely approached feeling like a “tool for thought”. Truly embracing the original Smalltalk ideas instead of just empty lip service paid off big time.

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  5. May 21

    If you use ClojureScript you probably use cljs-devtools and you probably rely on custom formatters. A suitable replacement before removal would be great

    Do you enable and use Custom Formatters in Chrome DevTools? If yes, for what purpose?
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  6. Retweeted
    May 18
    Replying to

    There’s a similar discussion I often have (and struggle with) about tool or architecture choices. The median time to deliver a feature or other change usually doesn’t matter. You need to think about the tail latency - the “p99” - of feature delivery and optimize for that.

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  7. May 18

    Lots of tidbits here about the latest ClojureScript releases, Krell, as well as thoughts about the future.

    Our 4th anniversary episode is out with awesome talking about and Krell - enjoy!
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    May 16

    Our 4th anniversary episode is out with awesome talking about and Krell - enjoy!

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    May 15

    Do you use CommonJS? investigated impact of CommonJS when tree shaking 🌳

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  10. May 15

    Node.js and its ecosystem is a good example of what happens when you focus on local simplification and ignore global simplication. Unfettered ecosystem wide complexity.

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  11. May 15

    React much like the JVM. Suitable for the very wide band of moderately complex apps. Like GC a global simplification. Tech choices for trivial or complex apps aren’t interesting. People talk about them like they matter, but prove nothing other than anything can be effective.

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  12. May 15

    I believe the desire for semantically simple yet well performing for a very wide scope of scenarios is a software pipe dream. Gregor Kiscalez gave a talk in 1994 called the Mapping Dilemma which covers the territory well. He was hopeful, I am not.

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  13. May 15

    The point about GraphQL seems gloss the over fact that DBs need innovation as much as frontend and backend programming technologies. Datomic continues to be overlooked and it has some nice answers here. Alternatives with similar ideas would be great.

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  14. May 15

    This followup by addresses some of the issues I have , but not the issue of APIs which is the fault of practice not technology - stop mutating published things

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  15. May 15

    Though I disagree with the framing of some of the arguments, this is a good read, Second Guessing the Modern Web - by

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  16. May 13

    Potential isn’t about doing N things nor abstractions. It’s about doing *ONE* thing and doing it so simply that adding another thing is trivial. In some circles, aka "writing some functions”.

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  17. May 13

    Emphasizing *potential* over ease leads to composition. With a hardline on simplicity, you can often arrive at ease over time. But getting composition later is almost impossible without disruptive/breaking change.

    You can use Krell to build a Clojurescript/React Native app on macOS now with Microsoft’s RN fork. REPL and reloading included.
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    May 12

    You can use Krell to build a Clojurescript/React Native app on macOS now with Microsoft’s RN fork. REPL and reloading included.

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    May 10

    25 years of Community, 25 years of Research, 25 years of FP, 25 years of Awesome, 25 years of Racket. To all the users and contributors out there, thanks for being part of our story.

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  20. May 8

    Some fun reading here

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