Morning

http://stevelosh.com/blog/2018/07/fun-with-macros-if-let/ wrong direction

Morning

morning

Bore da

morning

@lady3janepl @alex.lynham dumb old me doesn't see the good article link you are discussing

http://stevelosh.com/blog/2013/09/teach-dont-tell/ @otfrom

thx @dominicm

morning!

Good morning

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Hello everyone 🙂

👋

Morning everyone! Lovely day for Clojure dojo in the northern part of the island 😀 Thanks @otfrom for organizing it!

What? I did nothing

Can't blame me. No one saw anything

I was pretty sure I saw your name somewhere mentioned as organizer. Excuse me if I’m mistaken

I think my old blog post is being used as a template

His name (and picture) sneak into the most unlikely places!

And I want to go to the next one, but I'm in my way to London today

Going to London?

Oh, there’s link to a post by you in the meetup details: https://otfrom.wordpress.com/2010/10/26/faq-how-much-do-i-need-to-know-before-i-come-to-the-dojo/

No your picture making into Clojure talks

Anyway, will I get to meet in person someone from the channel?

Wow lanyrd

I'm not sure

@hyankov see if you can get to a Clojure eXchange one year and you’ll meet loads of us!

i think i saw it when i first started clojure and was confused 😂

that was like 5 years ago loool

but at least it was memorable 😄

It made more sense when most ppl in London had been to a Dojo hosted by @otfrom

I had the opposite experience, I was confused initially, and then it felt like I was being brought "in" on a joke. I actually felt more like part of the community in response to seeing @otfrom's face in slides.

@otfrom As a Yorkshireman with an American accent apparently you need to ‘keep a low profile’ while you’re in London in case an irate Brit decides to blame you for the policies of ‘the orange one’ https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/jul/10/us-embassy-trump-americans-london-warning

but what kinda idiot would not exercise caution "if unexpectedly in the vicinity of large gatherings that may become violent" ?

An orange one?

It's national brick throwing day over here tomorrow.

i love some of the names i've seen @maleghast calling the orange one - "darth cheeto", "the fanta menace" 🙂

you mean national brick throwing day falls on the same day as national pish-balloon throwing day this year @jasonbell ?

Nice avatar jade

boom!

One of the papers here is doing say no to trmp A3 posters

where does Jade come from?

(as in origin of nickname, not geographical of the person)

Autocarrot

And I think @agile_geek

@mccraigmccraig *takes bow* I have to tell you that I think the best one that I have heard is my wife's creation:

Donnie Small Gloves

(I have made a solemn vow not to use 45's name while he is in office, on the internet)

@lady3janepl Most people call me Jase, @agile_geek autocorrect calls me Jade.

At ClojureX I had people calling me Jade......

Well, it’s stuck

If it helps, Jade always makes me think of Beyond Good and Evil 🙂

haha

And me. 😉

Hello all, I am looking for speakers for the London Clojurians meetup for September, October and November. Lightning talks, experience reports, live coding, remote presenters, tool use, anything related to Clojure and functional programming would be great to hear about. Personally I would love to hear about Clojure and Kafka experiences. We have 1,115 members now, so it would be great to have some regular talk nights up until the Conference in December. We also have some variety of locations, so it won't be just SkillsMatter. Send me a direct message on Slack if you are interested.

I assume there’s more experienced folk than me in the cljs/serverless world but could potentially do something around that depending on the date

re: kafka and clj I’ve done some but production wise that’s @otfrom and @carr0t’s specialist subject ^_^

dan’s talk at kafka summit was v good

@alex.lynham you’d be surprised. Lots of ppl want to hear your experiences. The audience’s experience is always mixed.

‘this weird trick makes a serverless webapp into thinking it was a regular figwheel project’

(the weird trick is read the figwheel docs very closely)

that is often the solution

passing through toon now and waving at @agile_geek 👋

it has been a while since I've done any kafka. @jasonbell is the one to ask there really

I think I've been dragooned into talking, was thinking about abusing core.async for ETL

@jasonbell will be making a star appearance at the ClojureX conference, but don't tell anybody, it's a secret

shhhhh

Oh that Jason Bell.... 🙂

okay, well def ask @carr0t as well - like I say, his kafka conf talk was ace

(sorry for dropping you in it dude 🙂 )

Happy to do another Kafka at ClojureX

I could even live code this time........ no I won't 🙂

The original plan was to do a thing on self training AI with DL4J and Core.async.

A rework from the Strata talk on Kafka/DL4J

@otfrom if you're doing core.async -> ETL then I'm happy to do Kafka/DL4J in Clojure.

Haha, no worries. Will have to see what I'm up to around then 😉

Would need to rejig the talk to be less Kafka and more Clojure 🙂

🙂

@jasonbell I'm not talking at clojurex. This is just a ldnclj meetup in Sept

Ah cool

some bits of solidity are quite nice (tagging pure vs impure functions, view functions etc) but some bits really are a Dockerfile level dog

code reuse via contracts-as-objects in an object hierarchy is just… no

why not just export blocks a la node requires?

but anyway

actually I’ll do a sh-- er, feedback sandwich and say that aside from a few globals, the if in function it’s memory/ if outside fn block it’ll be on the chain isn’t a bad pattern (given what there is to work with)

given that the blockchain is immutable though, the way that a side effect is basically an array operation feels…. uhm, casual

@alex.lynham sh-- sandwich.... the two word review of that Spinal Tap album?

haha yeah, got it in 1!

Have you seen Mighty Wind?

is that the folk band one he did relatively recently?

(also did you know he’s a hereditary peer?)

Conj 2018 - I'm gonna be there! 🙂

@alex.lynham Yeah it's brilliant

nice

will have to check it out

@maleghast very jealous 🙂

@alex.lynham - Will you be at ClojureX..?

might be

hmmm £450

might have to do that

I take it you will then?

What a game! Bit gutted that England are out now, but Croatia really made them work for it

@alex.lynham The Folksmen (from Mighty Wind) used to come out and support Spinal Tap, get bottled and have god knows what thrown at them. They'd go off, get changed and them come on as Spinal Tap and no one ever noticed.

hahaha

that’s brilliant