Anyone use racket and care to give some getting started pointers?

arrdem: use drracket

arrdem: or where you after something specific?

Hey @isauredv! 😃

Hi Tj!:thumbsup:

This doesn’t sound very good for our slack group: http://blog.freecodecamp.com/2015/06/so-yeah-we-tried-slack-and-we-deeply-regretted-it.html

Very rough draft of A very short introduction to semantic web https://joelkuiper.eu/semantic-web

I might even be working on a YESQL inspired SPARQL library … 😉

anyone up building a performant slack alternative?

@sveri: I’ve had this idea for a slack focused on content aggregation and sharing, rather than chat

@sveri: sort of like Google Reader/RSS in its good years, but with more “social” bs in it 😛

rebuilding slack shouldn’t be that hard though, you can just use IRC and build a web gui around it 😛

@joelkuiper: I guess it's more the UI and phone integration that attracted so much

plus some useability goodies

yeah, might be an interesting use case to try React Native + ClojureScript for

combined with sente and any storage on the backend

then use phonegap and get phone integration for free

almost 😄

it writes itself 😛

storage would just be IRC and dumping the logs somewhere.

no reason to reinvent a proven piece of tech

joelkuiper: Not sure how one would have a notion of teams in IRC though, something like clojurians->off-topic and someotherteam->off-topic should be possible

well the hacky thing would either be to set up different IRC servers for different teams, or prefix the IRC channels with a non-public ID

or just make channels as uuid’s and fix the mapping somewhere else

joelkuiper: I like the mapping most I guess, prefixing leads to string parsing which is like blaeh 😄 Different servers need some manual handling

Although, using docker one could automate that process and it might scale better

exactly

it’s not like the initial latency to having a new team is much of a problem

several minutes would still be acceptible

enough to spin up a container of sorts

and IRC servers are relatively light

true, I like that. using an image you can spin up one in like one or two seconds

I think about that some more tonight

cool, I’m relatively busy but we can always chat more

@joelkuiper: I wonder about things like file support, and, I just thought about jabber, which always supports a wide variety of protocols

maybe that would be the better technology, backendwise

hmm possibly, never really looked into Jabber, but it (c)would make sense

I wonder what slack uses as a backend

jabber offers a lot regarding user handling

maybe a custom thing, dunno what slack uses

Check out slack's API docs

they do a pretty good job of dogfooding their message formatting

and it's a fairly reasonable like six or seven message type JSON encoding as well

Zomg http://kotaku.com/man-takes-six-years-to-crochet-one-super-mario-bros-3-1712808785