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What Was Good About PHP
Developers optimize for different things in different situations. Developers at big companies with big teams optimize for process and unit tests and scaling. I optimize for building web apps fast and...
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ClojureScript Tiny Slides
ClojureScript Tiny Slides is grug-brained presentation software. Write your slides in Reagent Hiccup. Static web app you can upload to any web host. Tiny hackable codebase. No setup or config, just...
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Everything is Special
We have a tendency to view things as fungible. That's a fancy way of saying "substitute one thing for another." It's how we make sense of the world. We say "that thing is like that other thing, let's...
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So far Clojure is not the best choice of language when it comes to generating code using LLMs. This is probably because it is a niche language and so it is less well represented in the training set....
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I Measured How Fast I Ship
"How long until it's done?" It's the question every software developer dreads. John Carmack famously responded with "when it's done." He knew the inherent complexity of software development. Software...
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Product Design: Watch It For Me
Your thumb depresses the microphone button with a soft click. You speak: "Beep loudly if the pot boils over." "Send me an SMS when you see the fox in the back yard." "Count the number of people who...
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CodeShow Presentation Tool
CodeShow is a code presentation tool I just released. It's a simple open-source static frontend web app with no backend that you can self-host. Visit mccormick.cx/apps/codeshow in your browser to use...
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I Was On Defn Podcast Talking About Code Pellets
The good folks at defn podcast recently had me on as a guest for some reason. Topics we covered: Laziness as a core developer value. Preferring Node.js over JVM with Clojure(Script). Deployment tools...
View ArticleA Way To Make Sense Of It
A way to make sense of it is this. The universe can be a cold hard place. Sometimes it seems meaningless and harsh. But we are a part of the universe. We are woven into it's fabric. We are made of the...
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Watch Later YouTube Watch List App
Watch Later is a 100% client-side web app you can use to save a list of YouTube videos without logging into YouTube itself. It syncs across devices using the Nostr protocol and relays, making it...
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