morning

🙂

I need to get some new glasses, it's just finding time to go

How to design geeky t-shirts? sorted 🙂

@gjnoonan I hear you! I can only go on Saturdays and that usually means I have to book optician appointment 6 weeks in advance!

I need to get my eyes checked too

@otfrom you have two.... sorted!

That saves time

Damn you @gjnoonan , now I'm thinking about a blog series on parodying developer culture using t-shirt designs!

@otfrom think nothing of it old chap! I'm sure you won't think anything of it at all

hehe, that would be pretty cool

I was telling Sharon (my wife) that a strange thing has happened at work around style.

I currently work at http://Style.com, the best dressed office in London.

It's full of well dressed young men and women.

Now if you've met me you know my sense of style was removed at birth

But...here's the strange thing..

I have a huge collection of geeky t-shirts to parody the developer cultural view of young male white developer in a hoody. As, although white and male, I'm far too old to wear a hoody and get away with it!

However, recently the well dressed style conscious young women and men have started to complement me on my t-shirt collection (OK there's a hint of irony in the complements!) . They say they look forward to my next t-shirt.

Style? pfft to work on thursday I wore a Peppa Pig t-shirt saying "tis the season to be jolly" with a christmas tree and presents on lol

HA

So, in attempting to be anti-style in an office of style conscious ppl...I've set my own style! Doh!

oft the case though, try to be anti-establishment and you end up creating your own estabilishment

Precisely!

Don't expect me to start dressing like a hipster anytime soon tho!

You'll be wearing flannel and looking like a lumberjack in no time

I thought Lumberjacks wore womens clothing and hung around in bars? In which case.... sorted!

hah

to digress, today in my Hammock i've put more thought it hosting clojure on the BEAM (Erlang's VM).. enough so that I'm going to have to do a spike

Wow. Sounds cool

Isn't that encroaching on LFE territory?

it is, but LFE very much like common lisp, so there are enough dissimilarities between it and clojure

@agile_geek just curious, have you got full remote developers at http://style.com ?

@gjnoonan Well, you know me... all lisp's look alike!

lol

@mariusz_jachimowicz I'm a contractor there so not my place to discuss or set expectations around their developer culture.

but I'm not allowed to work remotely at all..ever

supprised you're allowed to work at all tbf 😛

Are style down in the big smoke?

Permanent staff have different rules BTW. Just us contractor scum have different rules....which is fair enough IMO

@gjnoonan yes

Seriously tho. Style's a great place to work. Really nice office and atmosphere and some very smart ppl.

Some interesting challenges too

nice

yeah being at an e-commerce at the moment, I appreciate the challenges..

So I always have a choice, work near to home on something fairly dull for decent money, work in London on something fascinating on about the same money but incur huge expense in being there, or work in London for huge money and something that is morally ambiguous/or soul destroying. Currently on option number 2!

I've done all 3, joys of contracting (although I sold out and am permanent now)

for now at least

My big plan is to have my own business and do interesting stuff based near to home. Make the biz big enough to employ others....and live in terror about making payroll every month. I've had over 20 years of frustration about having a lack of choices, I want to trade frustration for terror.

My wife and children not so keen tho!

Let me know what that plan starts to come into fruition, I want to do the same! we'll take over the north

That's why I stayed up here for the current one, to see more of them rather than being away all week .. didn't quite work out that way though 😕

We should talk..once I have more to talk about!

hah, yeah

I took my savings and I invested more than 12 months for last 4 years and I learn with freedom and I work time to time. Hard time for my wife - when you see invoice time to time. This was my way to get free from doing things only in plain Java and learn a lot = Java -> Angular + CoffeeScript -> Ruby -> Node -> Clojure. Be able to view from different angles. Be not tightly coupled with stack. I work only full remotely. I could have very good job abroad but I am in christian community and I don't want to leave it. Last year I spent mostly mastering Clojure, learning and contributing into Onyx platform. Right now I am contributing into Metabase. I am very amazed by those projects.

Right, I'm off to Scarborough, today is my youngest daughters Birthday. Catch you all later

morning.,

this afternoon is clojure-pm for me 🙂

this is really good on code re-use http://blog.jessitron.com/2017/02/reuse.html