Clojurians Log v2

We somehow missed each other. I met two Joyriders there, so now I know for sure it’s not just me using it. 😃

thanks to you @pez - was hoping to say hello in person! enjoy using Calva and Joyride everyday and I sometimes even get a compliment or two from my emacs using colleagues - which I consider the most highest of praise

@ediacara is here!

Ah cool! I wasn't sure this account belonged to her :)

@djblue thinking hard about his next portal feature in the background

Hi friends!

Heeeey

cc @jcsims @potetm @aiba

my jacket may be cool but nowhere near as cool as Recia’s.

Ha! Your personality is plenty cool though. So we’ll call it a tie.

if only @potetm wasn't so casual that he would wear a tie!

I really do need to up my tie game

we can't overdress on Rich though, that would be wrong

so cool to meet you btw @potetm

same man. It was so great to be able to spend some time with you.

that’s an amazing jacket!

There are at least two symbols missing, imo. calva joyride 😃

Next year for sure!

Nice of you to share, that feels nice

You don’t seem the least bit superficial in the hallway setting. Just sayn’

Thank you Peter ❤️

Incidentally, you were one of the people I did not get time to talk to who I would have enjoyed a long conversation with

I am so glad we finally (after how many years?!) got to meet in person and talk. Keep in touch ❤️

I would certainly like to!

Yeah, we didn’t get to have a chat proper. But we’ll fix that eventually!

Wait... are you this @jennifer.myers? https://archive.oredev.org/oredev2014/2014/speakers/jen-myers

We spoke at Oredev 2014 at breakfast (where I gave a talk about ClojureScript/Reagent) I also visited your talk because I didn't understand CSS well (and still don't, haha).

@borkdude Haha, yes, that's me! I always did my best to stand up for CSS. 🙂

I already thought you had a familiar face but I couldn't quite place you at the conj. Are you now working for nubank? They are quite lucky to have you!

That's very kind of you to say! Yes, I've been at Nubank for almost five years doing a couple of different things and now I manage the Datomic Developer Success team.

@borkdude Jen was working with me to record the video interviews. She has many talents!

It was such a pleasure to see all of you! I was too busy this year, but I'm glad I got at least some time to chat.

I talked to him afterwards and the code isn't public yet, although it certainly looked interesting!

Paolo doesn’t have an account yet. But he said he would be getting one when I poked him about it. 😃 🤞

Yeah, Paolo's talk was intriguing, and I felt myself wanting to learn more.

I wouldn’t say compatible. I meant that Copilot has improved to hold a candle and more to Cursor. What I use: • A GitHub Copilot subscription ($10/month + a budget for extra premium requests that I have capped at $100/month and not reached so far) • The GitHub Copilot extension • The Calva Backseat Driver extension • #joyride (not needed per se, just that I have scripted Copilot sub agents and things and Joyride makes it easy for the agent to show you results as interactive webviews in VS Code. Backseat Driver gives Calva’s REPL to the Copilot agent as a tool with zero config. (Joyride gives its repl to the agent as a separate tool, so useful also outside Clojure projects.) Backseat Driver is Cursor compatible in the sense that it is also an MCP server, but when used with Copilot this is not needed, so that’s another thing I like with Copilot. The VS Code team is on fire developing Copilot, so I recommend using VS Code Insiders and getting the latest adds several times a day. Some things I like with Copilot: • The VS Code team is on fire with it • Easy to use and understand how to control the agent context window • Tools for using the context window effectively. (Like subagents, released a few days ago, which I may mean I no longer will need Joyride for that) • A great lineup of free and payed for models • Easy to use any model you like • Pretty cheap compared to the competition (I guess as long as there is competition 😃) • A remote agent, that runs in GitHub’s Actions infrastructure. I haven’t done the work needed to give it the REPL yet, but for some tasks it is still very useful I probably should make some tutorials around how I use these things… Here’s a collection of instructions, prompts and chat modes for Clojure, that are reasonably up-to-date: https://github.com/github/awesome-copilot/blob/main/collections/clojure-interactive-programming.md.

thank you!

There’s also: > If people can go full async with something, they will