Notes.

If you took a break over the holidays, I hope it was a good one. I’ve been at the beach with my wife and one year old son, so it’s been a mix of relaxing and defending the baby from a bach that hasn’t been childproofed. Best wishes for 2017!

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• A great article “Code is Data” from James Reeves responding to an earlier disillusionment with Clojure article.
• An interview with James Reeves around his work on Ring, Compojure, and his many other open source projects.
• Deep Learning in Clojure with Cortex from Carin Meier
• Paulus Esterhazy on Reagent mysteries - part 1: vectors and sequences, and part 2: reloading?

Libraries & Books.

• chromex from the indomitable Darwin: write Chrome extensions with ClojureScript
• naga, a Datalog based rules engine
• omniconf is an omnivorous (my description) configuration library that verifies your config on startup

People are worried about Types. ?

But not this week.

Foundations.

• Accidentally Quadratic - Chrome SSE parsing
• Modern garbage collection
• Operation Costs in CPU Clock Cycles
• Why Aeron Matters
• JVM at Google
• Java Champions respond to the FUD article from The Register about Java SE usage.

Tools.

• How boot solved our FTP problem
• Code indexing with lein-codeindex for vim and emacs
• More on Datomish from Mozilla, their database inspired by Datomic and Datascript.
• Saving your Emacs customisations somewhere else
• YouDebug sounds like an incredibly useful debugger for remote sites where you don’t have access to customer infrastructure. I wonder if it can work with Clojure?
• I’ve been working on deps.co - private hosted Maven repos. You can sign up for the launch list if that sounds useful for you and your team. 

Learning.

• There is a Clojure workshop in Stuttgart, Germany
• Threading Pipelines in Clojure

Misc.

• Standing in the Shadow of Giants - Zach Tellman on open source culture and migration.