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The world's greatest vegetarian Clojure podcast. Support us on https://patreon.com/defn

Hosted by Vijay Kiran and Ray McDermott

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defn episodes:

03.22.2024
#94 Clojure, Go, Cloud Storage Tech and more with Albin, Aurelien, and Wouter
We got the beautiful minds behind the cloud tech: Aurelien, Albin, and Wouter share their experience building block storage system with Clojure and Go. https://www.exoscale.com/block-storage/
12.07.2023
#93 Malcolm Sparks Returns!
Malcolm Sparks, CTO of JUXT (the team behind XTDB, Yada and more) returns! We talk state of software, OSS, and most importantly Malcolms Atomic Architecture (https://www.juxt.pro/blog/atomic-architecture/)
10.25.2023
#92 defn.no with Magnar Sveen and Christian Johansen
We catchup with norsemen emacsen Magnar and Christian to talk about their Clojure adventures, how they sneaked in Clojure through unconventional techniques. Some highlights from Christian and Magnar's portfolios: - Parens of the Dead https://www.parens-of-the-dead.com/ : how to survive Zombie...
09.14.2023
#91 Josh Glover
Josh joins us to talk about Clojure, engineering, teams, lambdas, Babashka and more :) Follow him on https://mas.to/@jmglov and his adventures on https://medium.com/@jmglov
08.19.2023
# 90 Jacob O'Bryant
Jacob joins us to talk about his Clojure journey and the evolution of Biff web framework. Checkout his work on https://github.com/jacobobryant and https://biffweb.com
06.15.2023
#89 Kimmo Koskinen aka viesti
Join us for another fun with Kimmo a Clojure hacker from the woods of Finland. Also, the first episode without Vijay .. finally :P https://github.com/viesti
04.21.2023
#88 Matthew Davidson a.k.a kingmob
Matthew Davidson, maintainer of Aleph/Manifold joins us to talk about his Clojure journey and https://www.speederino.com and zen :)
02.24.2023
#87 Jack Rusher
We are back our (ir)regular schedule! Kickstarting 2023 with Jack Rusher https://jackrusher.com - talking about Clojure, exploratory programming, types, pull requests and more!
11.13.2022
#86 Kira McLean
We are back from long summer break with Kira McLean, clojurian and working on Clojure Data Cookbook. Follow her on for updates and check out the data cook cookbook https://github.com/scicloj/clojure-data-cookbook
06.01.2022
#85 Clojure Dart Duo: Christophe and Baptiste
Christophe (clojure) Grand (master) and Baptiste share the behind scenes of Clojure Dart project. Check it out on: https://github.com/Tensegritics/ClojureDart
05.21.2022
#84 - Debbie and Wilker Lúcio
We invited super cute and fabulous Debbie the Corgi and also Wilker who happened to be in the same room to talk about Clojure - creator of Pathom and EQL! Check out the his blog on https://blog.wsscode.com/
04.24.2022
#83 Tim Zöller aka The Java Hippie
We got Tim to talk about Dogs, Cheese and his journey into Clojure and test containers project and his startup! Check his website: https://javahippie.net
04.04.2022
#82 - Ben Sless
Ben Sless joined author of clj-fast (https://github.com/bsless/clj-fast/) us to tell the one weird trick to make your Clojure code blazing fast! Check Ben's work in: https://bsless.github.io
01.20.2022
#81 - Lojban edition with Joshua Suskalo
We had fantastic chat with Joshua learning a thing or two about coffi the clojure FFI and farolero that is bringing Common LISP conditionals to to clojure. As far as we know, this is the first Clojure podcast to have...
12.28.2021
#80 - Vedang
We have another awesome Clojurian Vedang from Incredible India, we talk about Indian food, culture and working at one of the first Clojure startups in India Helpshift.
12.21.2021
#79 - Eric Dallo
We are delighted to have Eric as our guest talking about all the amazing work he has been doing on Clojure LSP and converting people to Emacs. Check him out on https://github.com/ericdallo and support him on Patreon https://www.patreon.com/ericdallo
11.16.2021
#78 Adrian Smith a.k.a phronmophobic
Our guest this time is Adrian Smith aka phronmophobic inventing better ways to build UIs with https://github.com/phronmophobic/membrane Bonus: Rambles about brambles
10.19.2021
#77 - Michelle Lim
We talk to Michelle about her multi-major studies and Clojure(Script) and more! Yet another defn first - A crossover episode with a cameo!! Checkout Michelle's work on https://github.com/eemshi and http://mmmanyfold.com/
09.16.2021
#76 - The Desi Episode with Kartik Gupta and HariOm Gaur
defn has turned Desi with 2 Indian Clojurists! Kartik and HariOm join us to talk about Indian food and spiced up our discussion with Clojure and Ziggurat (https://github.com/gojek/ziggurat) and more!
08.10.2021
#75 - Philippa Markovics
#75 - Philippa Markovics by defn
07.20.2021
#74 - Will Acton and the greatest Clojure podcast Crossover!
Will Acton joins the "mobcast" to talk about Martial arts, Punk Music and a bit about his Clojure projects hx and Helix! We are honoured to have @lambduhhh (https://linktr.ee/lambduhhh) as a guest-host in the greatest Clojure podcast crossover!
06.15.2021
#73 - Paula Gearon
In this epi(c)sode we had a blast chatting with Paula, graph database and Clojure expert, and creator Asami https://github.com/threatgrid/asami Check it out!
06.07.2021
#72 Chris Badahdah from Phoenix!
Chris takes us into his Clojure Portal and other Clojure adventures :) Check his awesome tool: https://djblue.github.io/portal/
05.05.2021
#71 - The true and brave Daniel Higginbotham
We talk to Daniel and try to settle the age old dispute between the Higginbotham clan and the Higginbotham clan. There is some #Clojure stuff in the episode too ;)
04.21.2021
#70 - Yehonathan Sharvit
The second coming of Yehonathan on defn, who brought us Klipse, in which he talks about what/why/how of data oriented programming and why Clojure is the best language for data oriented programming with a dash of christian theology.
04.04.2021
#69 - Mike Fikes
Episode 69 - we go back to our first ever guest, Mike Fikes, creator of ambly, replete and bringing Clojurescript to microcontrollers!
03.28.2021
#68 - Michiel Borkent aka borkdude
We got borkdude back on the show for an epi(c)sode ! Diving into all sorts of Clojure stuff!
02.28.2021
#67 - Juan Monetta
We talked to Juan about all Clojure stuff from Diagrams to Debugging! Check out .... https://github.com/jpmonettas?tab=repositories
12.09.2020
#66 - Dominic Monroe
We cover every Clojure topic from edge to wedge and more in episode 66 with Dominic Monroe who wants to have a word with you about TNS-45 Links of interest: https://dominic.io https://juxt.land/edge/ https://sr.ht/~severeoverfl0w/wedge/sources https://clojure.atlassian.net/browse/TNS-45
11.11.2020
#65 Vlad Protsenko
We talk to Vlad a designer turned developer and "reveal"ed a new REPL experience for Clojure! Check it out on https://vlaaad.github.io/reveal/
09.30.2020
#64 - James Henderson - Crux
#64 - James Henderson - Crux by defn
08.09.2020
#63 - Bruce Durling
We got a chance to talk to Clojure community veteran Bruce Durling( London Clojure Community, ClojureBridge, ClojureX and more)about his Clojure Journey and more :)
07.07.2020
#62 - Mia
We had super fun talking to Mia - "rock" star Clojure Developer and co-host of apropos! Enjoy!
05.27.2020
#61 - Daniel Szmulewicz
We talk to Daniel Szmulewicz about Programming languages, Writing, meyvn and of course Clojure!
05.16.2020
#60 4th Anniversary Episode - Return of David Nolen (aka @swannodette)
David is back for our anniversary episode to chat about plenty of Clojure Script and projects - especially about https://github.com/vouch-opensource/krell Checkout https://github.com/swannodette and https://github.com/mfikes to sponsor David or Mike!
05.03.2020
# 59 jr0cket in Space(macs) aka practicalli aka John Stevenson
Checkout our latest episode - a fun and interesting conversation with one of the most prolific Clojure community contributor - John Stevenson! Check him out on http://practicalli.github.io/ and https://twitter.com/jr0cket
04.12.2020
#58 - An "Assum" Easter Episode with Erik
We chat up with Assum guest - Erik Assum to talk about maintainable Clojure, rock-climbing and more! Erik's Talk: https://youtu.be/Tq7r97G4b7Y and his OSS is on https://github.com/slipset Enjoy!
02.07.2020
#57 - Ray and Vijay welcome our first Rhyming Guest: Jeaye
Our next episode with Jeaye Wilkerson (https://jeaye.com) - a C++ programmer who turned into a Clojure programer and CTO of gaming startup.
12.31.2019
#56 First returning guest Eric Normand explains how to Grok Simplicity
Check out Eric's book in MEAP - https://www.manning.com/books/grokking-simplicity
12.16.2019
#55 Learning Schafkopf with Martin Kavalar
We talked to Martin (https://www.sauspiel.de/schafkopf-lernen fame) to learn about a famous Bavarian card game. Oh, also we talk about some other stuff like Erlang, Clojure and ClojureScript :)
11.03.2019
#54 with Peter Strömberg, Master Calva Distiller
We talk to master Calva distiller Peter, and talk about how he has been building "best Clojure experience for VS Code users" If you are a VSCode user - checkout Calva https://github.com/BetterThanTomorrow/calva To sponsor all the amazing work Peter has been doing...
10.10.2019
#53 - Dave Yarwood
We had the pleasure meeting Dave at Heart of Clojure, and he joins our podcast with his own music composition program https://alda.io with live performance at the end. Listen now for more juicy details on how Dave ended up with...
08.21.2019
#52 - Gary Fredericks aka @gfredericks on GitHub
garyGary tests us with his Clojure and general knowledge. The quality of Gary's track isn't the best but it has been scrubbed as clean as the DEFN audio crew can get it. We hope that you will agree that the content...
07.02.2019
#51 - Sean Corfield a.k.a @seancorfield
We meet the king of JDBC and discover his many other areas of expertise. A gentle and warm conversation with a delightful gent. Enjoy his many repos and links to his other work https://github.com/seancorfield
06.09.2019
#50 - Michiel Borkent a.k.a @borkdude
For our #50 episode we catch up with Michiel Borkent from the the Netherlands to discuss old English literature, Haskell and a bit of Clojure and the tools he is building to help the Clojure Devs! Checkout his latest talk at...
05.22.2019
#49 Crux with Jon and Jeremy
In which, we talk to Jon & Jeremy about Crux the new Bi-Temporal Database by Juxt (https://juxt.pro/crux/docs/get_started.html)
04.15.2019
#48 David Miller and Clojure on the CLR
After 10 years of diligently maintaining the CLR version of Clojure, David discusses the project for the first time. It was our absolute pleasure to speak with David and discover his motivations, ideas and plans for the next generation of the...
03.31.2019
#47 - Tommi Reiman
#47 - Tommi Reiman by defn
03.21.2019
#46 - Roman Liutikov
#46 - Roman Liutikov by defn
02.10.2019
#45 - Moe Aboulkheir
Links of interest: https://datopia.io https://nervous.io/ https://github.com/nervous-systems/sputter https://github.com/replikativ/datahike

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defn episodes:

#94 Clojure, Go, Cloud Storage Tech and more with Albin, Aurelien, and Wouter

#93 Malcolm Sparks Returns!

#92 defn.no with Magnar Sveen and Christian Johansen

#91 Josh Glover

# 90 Jacob O'Bryant

#89 Kimmo Koskinen aka viesti

#88 Matthew Davidson a.k.a kingmob

#87 Jack Rusher

#86 Kira McLean

#85 Clojure Dart Duo: Christophe and Baptiste

#84 - Debbie and Wilker Lúcio

#83 Tim Zöller aka The Java Hippie

#82 - Ben Sless

#81 - Lojban edition with Joshua Suskalo

#80 - Vedang

#79 - Eric Dallo

#78 Adrian Smith a.k.a phronmophobic

#77 - Michelle Lim

#76 - The Desi Episode with Kartik Gupta and HariOm Gaur

#75 - Philippa Markovics

#74 - Will Acton and the greatest Clojure podcast Crossover!

#73 - Paula Gearon

#72 Chris Badahdah from Phoenix!

#71 - The true and brave Daniel Higginbotham

#70 - Yehonathan Sharvit

#69 - Mike Fikes

#68 - Michiel Borkent aka borkdude

#67 - Juan Monetta

#66 - Dominic Monroe

#65 Vlad Protsenko

#64 - James Henderson - Crux

#63 - Bruce Durling

#62 - Mia

#61 - Daniel Szmulewicz

#60 4th Anniversary Episode - Return of David Nolen (aka @swannodette)

# 59 jr0cket in Space(macs) aka practicalli aka John Stevenson

#58 - An "Assum" Easter Episode with Erik

#57 - Ray and Vijay welcome our first Rhyming Guest: Jeaye

#56 First returning guest Eric Normand explains how to Grok Simplicity

#55 Learning Schafkopf with Martin Kavalar

#54 with Peter Strömberg, Master Calva Distiller

#53 - Dave Yarwood

#52 - Gary Fredericks aka @gfredericks on GitHub

#51 - Sean Corfield a.k.a @seancorfield

#50 - Michiel Borkent a.k.a @borkdude

#49 Crux with Jon and Jeremy

#48 David Miller and Clojure on the CLR

#47 - Tommi Reiman

#46 - Roman Liutikov

#45 - Moe Aboulkheir