Clojurians Log v2
clerk
So, why is it called “clerk”. what’s the rationale for choosing the most boring word to name your creation.
i think it sounds more 'business-y' than boring personally, and more of like, "a helper that works with numbers", so I think its fitting
Ever heard of Maxwell equations?
https://github.com/nextjournal/clerk-demo/blob/main/notebooks/introduction.clj#L254 (wink, wink)
Got it. thanks.
I like this question because it made me look up a word, which I love doing:
> A clerk is a white-collar worker who performs various administrative and record-keeping duties in different professional settings. The role encompasses several key functions: Maintaining and creating records, Conducting general office tasks, Filing documents, Staffing service counters, Screening calls
Another name could be helper but that'd be confusing. If I redefine 'clerk' myself I might say, "One who labors at the information work not intrinsically-related to the business at hand."
"White-collar" being a term for work that is done in an office or similar rather than a mechanic's shop or farmer's fields.
I'm pretty sure it's called after James Clerk Maxwell, though I don't have a reference at the moment.
it could very well be both :^)
Everything happens for a reason we make up later
There are actually several references we had in mind. Maxwell, yes, but also: “In such a future working relationship between human problem-solver and computer ‘clerk’, the capability of the computer for executing mathematical processes would be used whenever it was needed.” – Douglas Engelbart And the idea that a clerk works with files, and we wanted a notebook system in which everything was simply a source file in the background. 😊
I love this program so much. I'm using it at work extensively for exploratory data analysis. Could anyone help me figure out where to read about, • layering in some style changes -- I would like to ask one of my css-savvy coworkers but i don't know what to ask them to look at / provide • what's the SOTA on Clerk for Slideshows? I tried something and it was a little touch-and-go, but that was 2 years ago
So for styling, tailwind is pulled in but you can provide your own CSS file https://github.com/elken/aoc/blob/master/src/index.clj#L27-L32
Tailwind is a "nice defaults" CSS inclusion, right? So presumably providing additional css is, "the cascade" which I have heard spoken of respectfully and I think I understand, abstractly
Yeah, you can hook into tailwind neatly when writing custom viewers say but for customising the overall layout of what's built-in I don't think there's a better option. As for slideshows btw, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=07k0IFviazg