Lost in Lambduhhs

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:

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

🤡 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

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

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 `[email protected]` 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:

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:

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

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