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Shantanu Kumar 2026-01-15T12:00:21.960499Z

Today I learned there's a dedicated book on Leiningen: https://www.amazon.com/Leiningen-Essentials-Definitive-Reference-Developers-ebook/dp/B0FDT642DC

oλv 2026-01-15T12:16:25.054449Z

Looks like slop

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2026-01-15T13:05:12.119199Z

A guy I've never heard of writing a book on Clojure; sentences all containing three arguments/blocks, separated by the Oxford comma: definitely suspicious 😆

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oyakushev 2026-01-15T13:48:46.206869Z

Looks like slopMy first thought before clicking.

2026-01-16T00:04:26.420439Z

Leiningen has its mysteries, but 274 pages' worth suggests a hesitation, on the part of the author, to get to the point. Maybe electricity costs will start to go down, now that this book is finished.

2026-01-16T10:32:33.264639Z

Yeah, this is from a known slop factory https://laurent.le-brun.eu/blog/hitex-a-spam-factory-for-ai-generated-books

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oyakushev 2026-01-16T12:33:54.457129Z

To avoid suspicion, it's time to make a slop factory that produces slop factories. #javalife

Robert Todea 2026-01-17T07:37:23.225029Z

TIL: There are such things as slop factories 😔

Robert Todea 2026-01-17T07:43:48.354369Z

@kumarshantanu, also the link stopped working.

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2026-01-18T18:51:20.762779Z

Slop rot!

borkdude 2026-01-15T14:09:08.995829Z

TIL that copy pasting some markdown in a Clojure REPL does work, sometimes.

clojure (+ 1 2 3)``` It's only problematic when you close the code block ;)

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2026-01-15T19:03:43.902029Z

a reader hack to treat the line

...
the same as
#! ...``` might even be convenient