Writing "agents" is like writing a book on good software engineering practices.

What if we did a single run and declared victory

This is one of my favourite conferences I’ve ever been to. Really high quality and genuinely interesting. Plus Berlin is one of the coolest cities in the world! Well worth checking it out if you can: bobkonf.de/2026/en/

So since they removed launchpad from macOS and you can only launch things from spotlight now, does that mean you can't open an app until spotlight finishes indexing?

The world is being cleaved into people who overuse AI and people who deal with the fallout of people overusing AI. Frustratingly, I don't really like being in either of these camps. Where do we go from here?

I don't want non-deterministic, randomly wrong answers to my vaguely worded spoken-language requests. Do people really want this? I want tools that reliably do one thing well and consistently.

My boss: Can't you get Copilot to validate the info in the spreadsheet? Me: Well, do we want it to be accurate or not? Because either I check it myself or I ask Copilot and then check its output *and* the spreadsheet, so... Boss: What's the point of Copilot then? Me: Exactly.

Just WHY Javascript You're killing me.

Working with AI assistants/LLM-driven development feels like coaching a really dumb, belligerent, and obsequious intern _all day_. It's exhausting and no fun. Super curious how other people are working with these tools for positive outcomes How do you use LLMs in your day to day, if at all?

My trusty robot that will take my job any day now.

Narrator: The machine had not, in fact, found the source of the error.

The frequency with which front-end developers are expected to _completely_ re-architect fundamental aspects of their apps, like state management or data fetching or caching is sheer madness.

📢 Amazing job alert! 📢 Seeq is hiring for a few different engineering roles (some of which may have us working together 😄). I've had a really great experience working here the last few months and happy to chat anytime. If you're interested let me know! apply.workable.com/seeq/

LLMs might just be the thing that convinces developers that good docs and well described APIs are worth writing.

Apple really shilling hard for pizza today 😂

how did web apps work at all before Typescript

How long do you spend upgrading JS libraries?

Tim Pratley’s summary of the Scinoj Light conference is excellent, check it out for a great take on the main themes plus overviews of each talk. Thanks to everyone in the community who made this happen and who’s contributing summaries and responses like this clojurecivitas.github.io/conferences/...

Shared mutable state is a curse. Writing software doesn't have to be terrible. Do not use shared mutable state.

After a long bit of toiling, we're proud to announce the launch of Gander Social—a project to bring a new kind of social to Canadians. Canadian owned and hosted, a feed you control, privacy-first, consent-based, respectful by default. Join the Early Access program: gandersocial.ca

This is the best thing I’ve read in a while.

This is the best thing I’ve read in a while.

Our very first ✨Scinoj Light✨ conference is wrapping up soon, it's been such an inspiring couple of days, so cool to see so many amazing ways people are using Clojure's data stack. Can't wait to go back and watch some of the talks I missed. scicloj.github.io/scinoj-light...

TIL there's a way to see *all PRs on GitHub* ever. Wild.

Reminder to check out Scicloj's very first miniconf this Friday and Saturday! Free and virtual, this is for anyone interested in working with data in Clojure. The schedule spans many timezones so something should be on no matter where in the world you are! scicloj.github.io/scinoj-light...

This is a great opportunity for some free mentorship in one of the most exciting Clojure projects. Reach out if you have any interest in bringing Clojure and C++ together for great fun and (maybe someday but probably not) profit 😄

State management is the bane of my existence as a web developer.

If you're wondering what's up in the world of Clojure for data @daslu.bsky.social and I made a recording going over some exciting ongoing community activities. Highlights: ⚒️ Noj is maturing and growing 🗓️ Many meetups thriving with new audiences ✨ Scinoj light, our very first miniconf, is coming up!

This is my favourite part of living in the Maritimes. Where else on the entire planet can you get a beach like this all to yourself on a sunny day?

What percentage of software you have to buy through a sales person is actually vapourware? Honestly feels like 95%. Or am I just too much of a software person? If I can’t see the app do what you say it does first, I just don’t believe you that it does.

What a crazy time to be alive

Wait this is allowed?

Ever been curious about how to make your data science workflow faster, more reliable, and less annoying? Check out Clojure's data science stack. There's a free workshop targeted at people new to Clojure coming up May 10, fill out this survey if you're interested: scicloj.github.io/blog/data-an...

Shout out to Jeffrey Goldberg for reporting on this now instead of waiting two years to put it in a book.

Not my meme but I can’t stop laughing

Ever wanted to live in a place that’s just like America but with better food and boring politics? Come to Canada!

A++ experience at @bobkonf.bsky.social in Berlin. Such an interesting mix of researchers and programmers, and so many interesting topics. Would love to come back!

@kirahowe.com teaches "Reproducible data science with Clojure" in her tutorial at #BOBkonf2025!

Fun day at Bobkonf and there’s more exciting workshops to come! The workshop notes are available here for anyone who wants to try it out! kira.quarto.pub/berlin-bike-...

Learning about "Reproducible data science with clojure" from @kirahowe.com at @bobkonf.bsky.social

And we're off! #BOBkonf2025 starts with Annette Bieniusa's keynote "Local-first Software".

Words to live by from a CRDT researcher: As a developer, don’t try to invent one yourself 😂 How I wish software developers would listen to researchers.

Longing for the days when the Americans fought *against* fascism. #neveragain

I am terribly sorry for anyone who has already cloned my workshop repo, but I am going to force push some changes because I am an idiot and pushed some very large files to it in the past. This is annoying for the ~10 people who already have it, but will make the entire repo smaller for everyone!

Super excited to be in Berlin for @bobkonf.bsky.social 2025! Such an amazing city, and it's going to be a great conference. There's a sneak peek of my workshop happening Friday after lunch here: kira.quarto.pub/bobkonf-2025/ The full thing will be published to the same place after the event!

One more week to propose a talk for the ⭐SciNoj Light⭐ #Clojure conference. scicloj.github.io/docs/communi... If anybody is considering a talk, now is the time to talk with us, and we will help you brainstorm your draft proposal.

I heard if you want to get better at making video content you should make video content, so here's a couple silly ones I threw together in the past 24h. Enjoy! 🙂

Does the Microsoft Teams app for Mac actually ever work or it some kind of practical joke?