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2023-08-18

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schmalz06:08:40

Morning all.

ukpono07:08:12

Good morning ☀️

jarohen09:08:20

morning, happy Friday 🙂

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steffan10:08:09

Morning everyone 🙂

Joseph Graham11:08:54

Afternoon all! I want to introduce myself to try to connect with the Clojure community here in the UK. I'm quite young and work as a platform engineer (3 yrs in a startup, 2 for a big company). I've been playing around with programming in my free-time for years at this point trying to find the one I like. When I discovered functional programming and Clojure last year I fell in love with it as it just fits how my mind works and I don't feel like I'm "fighting the paradigm". I have https://codeberg.org/xylon and I've written https://readtheorg.xylon.me.uk/index.html. I think I need to start looking for a new job as my current one is soul-destroyingly boring so I realised I should at-least reach out and see if there's any companies in the UK that might have a job for a junior Clojure dev. What is the best way for me to make friends and find out about companies doing Clojure in the UK?

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thomas11:08:09

I'd say this is probably one of the best places for that. there is also #CBJ5CGE0G where lots of us also are and #C050UG324GM

thomas11:08:20

and welcome of course!

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Joseph Graham12:08:00

I grew up in Sussex but I moved out to Wiltshire this year. Where abouts are others?

thomas12:08:34

I used to be Winchester/Southampton based, but left 6.5 years ago, back to :flag-nl: .

Joseph Graham13:08:48

Ah Winchester is a lovely old city 😁 . Don't know much about the Netherlands but heard it's a nice place.

thomas13:08:33

Yeah, Winchester was good. And now we live in Gouda... so lots of chees.

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Joseph Graham13:08:30

def inside let 🙀

thomas14:08:23

yeah , that is not a good idea

Rachel Westmacott15:08:04

Yay, more Clojure devs!!!

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seancorfield16:08:04

I lived in Horsham in W. Sx for years...

Rachel Westmacott16:08:31

I'm in Redhill, not too far from Sussex.

Joseph Graham16:08:55

@U04V70XH6 🙀 I lived in Horsham for the first 24 yrs of my life!

Joseph Graham16:08:51

@U0FR9C8RZ you moved to the UK recently?

Rachel Westmacott16:08:17

I've actually been here since I was born.

Joseph Graham16:08:53

Oh I misinterpreted your flag 😊

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Rachel Westmacott16:08:56

the flag next to my name is a sign of support rather than origin

Rachel Westmacott16:08:11

I have no personal connection to Ukraine.

seancorfield16:08:17

@U043HLWSYUQ I was in Horsham from '74 to '89 and went to Collyer's back when it was still a boys' grammar school 🙂 The town has changed a lot since I grew up there. My grandma lived there until she passed in 2000 and my mum lived there for a few more years after that until she moved to W. Chiltington, so I used to go back and visit a lot.

Joseph Graham16:08:36

Ah I missed you by a couple of years. My brother still works there as curator of Horsham museum.

seancorfield16:08:42

Oh, that's very cool!

Joseph Graham16:08:41

yeah he was on Bargain Hunt

Mario Giampietri20:08:39

Welcome to Clojure @U043HLWSYUQ 🙂 I was in Horsham 1 day a few months ago, last time I went for a 1 off occasion into an office for work (I usually WFH now - I'm in south west London). (no sadly we're not hiring right now)

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korny18:08:34

My mum lives near Horsham - but a different Horsham on the other side of the world :⁠-⁠)

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