clojure-europe 2026-09-14

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I once interviewed for a company and heard that they put an emphasis on "greppable code", which I really liked. Do you know any thought pieces on this subject?

I feel like The Pragmatic Programmer also talks about this, at least in spirit (it's been a long time since I read it).

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subscribing to the thread! I don't remember seeing it phrased like this, but I can think of a few practices that fall into this category. Something that's underappreciated is basically adding your own identifiers as anchors in comments, especially when you have code in multiple places that should be considered together

;; this looks terrible but was done for good reasons, see NOODLEHACK26

... somewhere else ...

;; Keep in sync with noodle definitions based on flux capacitor spec, see NOODLEHACK26

Tangentially related to what Arne wrote, a new habit I took up recently was to move comments inside the forms they annotate. Sort of like docstrings for forms that don't support docstrings. This way they have a better chance of moving together.

(;; we need to do this to align the index with the COBOL system
 inc foo)

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Madainn mhath mo chairdean! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

morn ING! 🌥️

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Good morning

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I finally arrived at the goal of a particular task at work which I've been working on all year. I looked up my PR's and tried to get an overview, and it turns out I did 111 PRs 😮 I think I did well by chopping it up into so many small bits that were relatively easily reviewable. pats self on shoulder

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