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thomas07:09:08

mogge ๐Ÿ˜ผ

alexlynham08:09:31

morning morning

alexlynham08:09:15

@jr0cket thanks for the desk arm suggestion btw ... new desk is in full effect ^_^

practicalli-johnny08:09:20

Great to hear. Would enjoy seeing pictures of you set up (cats optional)

alexlynham08:09:29

I might have one on mobile... hang on...

alexlynham08:09:06

not sure if that is visible or not...

otfrom09:09:28

v nice. Which arm did you go with @U79NZHC6A?

alexlynham09:09:18

the thingyclub (that is the actual name lol) arms that John suggested

alexlynham09:09:54

the monitor is right at the outside edge of what it will support, but it stays up okay

alexlynham09:09:07

and that's a pretty heavy 32" monitor

danm10:09:25

Ooh, and it doesn't slip or anything?

danm10:09:39

I want a dual monitor mount that's easily adjustable for my new setup...

Rachel Westmacott10:09:10

do you actually move it much once itโ€™s in the right place?

danm10:09:29

Problem is I want a gas spring arm, but with both monitors on it at once rather than independently moveable

danm10:09:40

Well, there's 2 things there

danm10:09:02

One is that the machine is used by both me and my wife, and we have different requirements for chair and monitor height

danm10:09:14

The other is that I would like to get a sit/stand electric desk, and I find it most comfortable to stand with my body slightly higher relative to the desk than when I'm sitting, so I'd want to be able to adjust it easily as I move from one to the other

Rachel Westmacott10:09:12

sort of like a fancy car with presets for different drivers that do seat and steering wheel position together

danm10:09:45

Yeah, that's the idea ๐Ÿ™‚

Rachel Westmacott10:09:55

BOOM - business idea.

danm10:09:06

Originally I wanted to wall mount the monitors instead of getting a desk mount stand

Rachel Westmacott10:09:26

hows that going to work with a sit/stand desk?

danm10:09:47

But VESA stands seems to have vertical travel that tops out at around 30cm different min to max, and the different between me sat and me stood is a lot more than that...

Rachel Westmacott10:09:56

I honestly canโ€™t wait until head-mounted-displays get good enough.

danm10:09:37

Given I wanted to adjust the position anyway, I wanted to be able to secure the mount about halfway between the two, and have enough vertical range to pull it down for sitting and up for standing. But no dice

danm10:09:58

I'm not sure I'd want to shut everything out like that for day-to-day

Rachel Westmacott10:09:27

have an adjustable desk mount, clamped onto an adjustable wall mount, with the monitor on that

Rachel Westmacott10:09:44

what could go wrong?

alexlynham10:09:22

it depends on monitor weight but I think you'd have a hard time getting two monitors onto one arm

alexlynham11:09:00

I had to max out the arm's tension to keep this one on (I think it's about 5.5kg maybe)

danm11:09:03

Well there are plenty of desk and wall mounts that have 2 arms mounted to a single point

alexlynham11:09:30

weirdly inverse problem with the laptop tray - my old MBP is light enough that it just kinda tips over from its own sprung tension lol

danm11:09:35

Oh, so the limit is the spring strength rather than the mount point?

danm11:09:56

I wouldn't mind 2 arms, if there was some way to lock them together so they moved as a pair

alexlynham11:09:56

yes, when extended it will hold the monitor fine but it will tip forward

alexlynham11:09:31

idk, until this I had a hand me down monitor on a desk I pinched from my old flat, I'm pretty happy ๐Ÿ™‚

danm11:09:53

I'm still rocking a 2008 Dell

danm11:09:01

60Hz, 1920x1200, 24"

alexlynham11:09:09

haha okay fp

danm11:09:11

But I want to get a pair of 27" 1440p 144Hz ones

alexlynham11:09:30

the new monitor is 4k and my 2013 MBP can't really drive it lol

Rachel Westmacott11:09:37

is it not better to get one big screen

danm11:09:50

Oh, I do have a second monitor with that. That's a 4:3 1280x1024 21" that I've had since I was at Uni, so probably about 2002/2003?

Rachel Westmacott11:09:57

maximum pixel fungibility and your sprung arm situation gets simpler too

danm11:09:43

I tend to game on one and have a film or something on the other. That's a lot more faff if you have one big monitor instead of 2 individual ones you can fullscreen to

danm11:09:29

Also when I'm working I like having my "code desktop" and my "docs desktop", with additional workspaces for chat clients, email etc

danm11:09:56

Then I can switch workspace on one monitor without switching the code away

alexlynham08:09:00

also would 100% recommend people check out codecraft conf next year - went on Friday and it was brilliant/ace/etc

guy08:09:07

Morning folks!

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maleghast09:09:15

Morning All!

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maleghast09:09:27

Not around for long this morning as I have a long drive ahead of me... Just wanted to stop in and say "hi"

bronsa09:09:22

waving

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danm10:09:30

morning morning

danm13:09:37

๐Ÿ‘‹:skin-tone-2:

practicalli-johnny14:09:07

I love creating SVG graphics in Clojure, its just data ๐Ÿ™‚

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firthh15:09:09

With reagent or just raw Clojure?

practicalli-johnny23:09:58

@U0694C7V3 well I first started using SVG with hiccup in a ClojureScript and reagent project and also built a nice looking tic-tac-toe game too. Today I was using Hiccup to generate SVG from a simple ring / compojure server side app. I guess I shouldnt have been surprised that the code I borrowed from the ClojureScript project just worked in the ring / compojure app ๐Ÿ™‚

maleghast08:09:42

When you get o guru level, let me know; I will have some contract / freelance work for you, I reckon... ๐Ÿ˜‰

firthh08:09:30

Nice. I tried a bit once and all of the Clojure stuff was really nice. The trouble was all understanding how to draw svgs from nothing ๐Ÿ™‚

firthh08:09:00

Sounds like youโ€™ve done way more complicated stuff than me though. Is it in your 100-days-of-code repo?

practicalli-johnny10:09:05

@U0694C7V3 serverside svg stuff is at https://github.com/jr0cket/webapp-status-monitor - in the status-monitor.handler code. It has a simple rectangle SVG near the top and a fancy circular logo in the REPL experiements section at the bottom

practicalli-johnny10:09:28

and the ClojureScript reagent tictactoe game has a few other examples, using a group of two lines with one line transformed to make a cross. The view-box here was also helpful for creating the images and the grid of a consistent size, regardless of the pixel size of the svg image created. https://github.com/jr0cket/tictactoe-reagent

firthh11:09:11

Nice! Thanks ๐Ÿ™‚

practicalli-johnny11:09:43

I hope to try some SVG animations soon as well as programmatically create the London Clojurians logo (which was drawn in Inkscape)

firthh11:09:11

That would be incredible!

practicalli-johnny14:09:34

I'm talking Joker linter for a run out today in Spacemacs. Its really good at pointing out little foibles in my code.. oh and letting me know when I am calling a function with the wrong number or args ๐Ÿ™‚

guy14:09:58

Whats joker linter?

practicalli-johnny14:09:14

its da bomb ๐Ÿ™‚

guy14:09:24

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practicalli-johnny14:09:21

https://github.com/n2o/clojure-lint-spacemacs-layer gives you a bit of an idea about, especially in Emacs

guy14:09:23

Thanks ill check it out โค๏ธ

practicalli-johnny14:09:52

In Emacs, it does a good job of highlighting potential issues, but doesn't annoy me about them (at least not so far)

alexlynham15:09:53

I wonder if joker means you can run clj against go in AWS Lambda

alexlynham15:09:59

I mean, probably

mccraigmccraig16:09:42

i like joker - works for clj & cljs and highlights some common syntax problems

mccraigmccraig16:09:52

only wrinkle is it takes a bit of effort to configure it for macros which produce bindings

seancorfield17:09:51

Another +1 for Joker! I rely on it a lot in Atom. Highlights unused requires, incorrect function argument counts, and a bunch of other useful stuff.

alexlynham17:09:31

huh, might have to try it out