Clojurians Log v2
practicalli
I am unsure about the future of Practicalli and will be taking stock of what is worth maintaining and developing. Feedback on the content has greaty dwindled, in part perhaps due to the increasing popularity of AI tools. Practicalli also lost nearly all funding over the last year, which also demonstrates a lack of value. I will greatly narrow the focus and take down content I probably wont have time to maintain or update. I don't want to contribute to the pile of outdated info on the internet. It seems prudent to return Practicalli back to a personal project, which I did for my own enjoyment for many years. Thanks to everyone who has supported my efforts to make Clojure freely accessible and simple to understand over the last 15 years. The moral support and feedback has been so rewarding and motivating.gratitude gratitude-asl
Lately when I ask an agent to help me set up a good developer ux, during this period where I'm changing my whole workflow repeatedly to figure out the new world, I cite your work by name as a great reference implementation of helpful tools I know have been crafted thoughtfully. Thank you!
Good to hear that some people have found Practialli useful. Thanks for the feedback and kind words. It really does help so much gratitude
Although I have used the content very sparingly, I would also like to thank you @jr0cket for all the great content you put out there. And for the enormous effort you made to keep it with top-notch quality, up to date and freely available for everybody.
If you want to keep some of that content alive online but don't want to deal with hosting and general maintenance, perhaps some of it could move to http://clojure-doc.org and we can open it up more for community-contributed maintenance?
(I've tried hard to ensure clojure-doc doesn't duplicate content elsewhere so, in 2023, I removed a lot of old content that had evolved on http://clojure.org and other places like Practicalli, and just linked to it instead -- CLI, transducers, lots of editor stuff, and intro/tutorial stuff on Practicalli is all linked from clojure-doc)
@jr0cket I really appreciate your work! You've been personally helpful for me and you've given me great feedback and input. Your content is so thorough. I know people in the community are benefitting from the resources you've put together. I hope you're able to continue.
I wont be making significant changes to Practicalli, certainly not without getting more people involved or at least understanding how we can best organise our collective efforts. Thanks for everyone's kind words gratitude gratitude-asl
I'd love to be involved in some capacity. Let's keep talking about it.
@jr0cket, I've really appreciated, valued, and benefited from all your hard work. A sincere, heartfelt, and big thanks to you. gratitude
I really like the stuff about Clojure in Spacemacs and Spacemacs set up. That’s something that I struggle to find elsewhere.
I am grateful for the work you've done and shared. My use of clojure isn't as intense at present, so I really appreciated your ready-to-go configs I can go back to from time to time. I don't believe AI will provide such a good level of polishing and documentation, not in such a cohesive way. Also what else is there in terms of ready-to-go dev setup, besides spacemacs of course? For the record there are about 300+ members in this channel, and with #spacemacs it's almost 1000 potential users that could contribute a bit, so maybe it's worth giving early notice before taking some parts down, maybe some will rise to the task?