A blog mostly about Clojure and ClojureScript.
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Seven years ago I started writing about my adventures with Clojure. I started using Octopress back then and was still using it until today. Octopress worked great for my blogging purposes and I'm grateful that it existed. However, in recent years I became frustrated with the experience of using it, which is probably…
Clojure beginners sometimes struggle with setting up a new Clojure deps.edn project compared to setting up a lein project. This is one of the reasons I've built neil . But not only for beginners, I've been using neil myself a ton too, to add common features to existing deps.edn projects. You may think that neil is a…
In the aftermath of my previous blog post about using Nextjournal's clojure-mode for better highlighting, I tried optimizing the JS output and got a look at the internals of CodeMirror 6 . I realized that writing a Clojure highlighter from scratch wasn't that hard if you had the right tools at hand: