clojure-uk 2025-11-17

Morning

Morning! Mostly recovered from Conj...

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sounds like you had a lot of fun!

I only went to a couple of talks each day, but the hallway track was especially good this year, with the focus they had on networking.

hallway tracks are the best IMHO.

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how was the driving?

Beautiful on the way down, and the first half of the way back - I detoured to Asheville and the blue ridge mountains and Tennessee - then over four hours of winding freeway in the dark:expressionless:

I think overall it was close to 20 hours on the road.

dang, that is quite a drive. I once went from Tucson Az. to San Diego Ca. 6 hours each way through the desert. that was kinda fun as well.

Anything leapt out to you as worth a look from someone who couldn't join in @seancorfield? =)

@folcon Hard to say since I only attended a couple of talks each day: • Sandra Sierra's "12 Years of Component" (I have used Component heavily for most of those 12 years) and • David Nolen's "ClojureScript Survival Kit" (awesome if you are into cljs -- I found it really interesting and I don't even do cljs) on Thursday; • Jeaye Wilkerson's "How to stick with your projects" (inspirational for OSS maintainers) and • Michiel Borkent's "Making Tools Developers Actually Use" (I was late to the bb party but this was a fascinating insight into Babashka and Scittle) on Friday. I figure I'll catch all the rest when the recordings came out.

I think one can still get a streaming package if one is eager to binge watch some talks? :)

I still have to catch up to a lot of them but I liked the ones Sean Corfield mentioned (happened to see those). Can't vouch for my own talk, but happy that Sean liked it :)

Basically, I attended the first talk of each day and then ended up in hallway/coffee room conversations for most of the day after that. I missed the beginning of Nolen's talk but I did catch all of Michiel's -- being immediately after the coffee break and almost everyone streaming back into the room to hear it certainly helped there!

($400 for the conference, $650 for the hotel/parking, and 20 hours of driving was absolutely worth every cent for the in-person stuff -- the talks are just gravy on top, IMO)

How much is the streaming package?

Nevermind I found it. I can do $10 for this, thanks for the tip @borkdude :)