Clojurians Log v2
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Hoi mensen, ik ben net thuis na een hackathon in Den Haag voor BZK voor wat innovatieve oplossingen betreffende de Wet Open Overheid (WOO). Ik heb het met Clojure gedaan voor de startup https://arqiver.com , en daarmee wat Clojure kunnen evangeliseren en wat koppen gedraaid met hoeveel je gedaan krijgt en hoe fijn deze taal ook wel is 🙂. Ik had een stukje geschreven over onze ervaring daar en deel het als comment, dacht misschien vind iemand het leuk om te lezen? Groetjes! 👋
Hey guys, we just got back from the Hackathon. We had a great experience and worked really hard to build something pretty interesting! I started with little to no sleep because I just landed the evening before in Brussels, had to drive during the night to Utrecht and get up at 6:00 to go to Den Haag. Developing the idea took us until 20:30 to start writing some code, but then the architecture design remained problematic until about 1:00. Then I worked until 6:30 this morning to implement the basic networking stuff, During the night as well I was met by complexities, race conditions, sudden failures in our Date library that worked without issues for a year at 4:00, alone in an empty hall with no sleep is something that would make anyone mad argh!! I then slept on a couch with a note saying 'please wake me up at 7:00'. From 7:00 I hacked non stop until 15:00 for the presentations, and @kevin.van.rooijen Nanhekhan started implementing an AI feature on top. The last hour some really strange stuff was breaking as @kevin.van.rooijen Nanhekhan would attest. At noon we were joined by @architect Mooijman which helped us out with the slides. The demo was feature complete with 3 minutes on the clock! Unfortunately the AI feature was not implemented but it was demo'able. After all that the presentations were roughly timed at 4:00, and we started talking with only 3:30 on the clock, there were interruptions like a gong going off and I had only 7 seconds left to demo. At 0:00 they say 'TIMES UP' not even letting you finish your sentence which was very frustrating and wasn't even allow to show a small bit. I felt this was very unfair, and expressed my distaste in this approach to the jury which they seemed to understand. After 5 minutes I let it go though and enjoyed the cool stuff everyone built! But all in all, we built some cool features, explored a lot of possibilities within our platform, made some interesting connections and heard inspiring things, which to me was the goal anyway, and the winners had built pretty cool stuff.