Thanks to the Admin team here on Clojurians slack for helping keep this a welcome and positive place for discussion

i super love the #the-clouncil show that @nonrecursive @lorilynjmiller @mfikes @quoll @plexus are putting together for Clojure newbies every couple weeks. hoping that more folks will join in!

i'm assuming @borkdude gets a metric ton of #gratitude around here, but holy heck #babashka is awesome and @borkdude is incredibly helpful and responsive. I just rebuilt a tool at [newjob] that i had built in kotlin at [oldjob] to do a simple command line timezone thingy, and it runs faster in babashka than it did in the jvm. we're making more and more use of babashka for small, quick tools on our team, and it's a godsend where lein has been used (super slowly) for almost everything. it's lovely to be able to use the same language for scripting that we use for servers, and easy to transition between them, instead of having a mix of gnarly make and sh scripts.

I am thankful that you all do so many cool things that I can put in the Deref each week

of course as aforementinoned, it seems like @borkdude is like 50% of those

Aww thanks so much @robert-stuttaford! we are gaining traction, slowly but surely 🙂 ! It’s been soooo much fun as a project, I find myself looking forward to it like planning out my character and everything a week or two in advance