Chris Bowdon @cbowdon@linuxrocks.online

Pair programming today with a colleague who is much better than me. Humbling and occasionally depressing, but a great workout.

Is it me or is the #brexit deal rather underwhelming? The only thing of note is the backstop, the rest is mostly about setting up actual future relationship negotiations in the transition period. So this is only significant because if accepted it means neither the no-deal hard Brexiteers nor Remainers have got what they wanted. And even then surely we could come out of the transition period with any of a huge range of options. Am I misunderstanding?

Wow, this looks amazing: #clojure tools.deps packager that can produce jars, uberjars or native images.

https://github.com/luchiniatwork/cambada

Looks like just the kind of lightweight packager I’ve been looking for.

Bus ticket prices have gone down by a pound in my area. Very much doubt this is an independent attempt by the bus company (First) to make their service more competitive; they have a monopoly and buses are normally overcrowded. Guess they’ve been threatened by some regulator. Good. Cheaper buses will benefit everyone.

Anyone able to comment on whether the #ClojureScript dev experience in #Emacs is as good as the #Clojure (JVM) experience? I understand CIDER supports it, but are there more rough edges?

Reading @selfcare toots and imagining the voice of Bob Ross. Supremely relaxing.

Enjoying Superforecasters at the moment. Lots of fascinating anecdotes and inspiring quotes, although I do have the feeling that my takeaway at the end will be 5 fairly obvious bullet points around being data driven rather than belief driven.

Been classifying documents today. The number of “$big_corp turns to #blockchain to solve $problem_unrelated_to_distributed_records” articles is ridiculous. The tech hype machine is stupid.

How many hours of people’s lives (and how many watts) are being wasted on this crap?

A lot of people seem to be conflating hype with popularity (or worse, with quality). Is #Clojure dead because no one posts "Sudoku Solver In Clojure" to Hacker News? Is it dead because no new frameworks were released this week?

My impression is it's growing, steadily. Slower than Kotlin or Go. The initial hype is long dead and people that pick it up now do so because they're interested in FP/Lisps rather than chasing the new shiny. Sounds good to me.

Strictly limited to 20 minutes of tooting a day now. Good for my free time and mental health, bad for those great interactions that deserve more. Tradeoffs, eh

Hard to stay positive about reducing climate change. Since the big #IPCC report, no government or major corporation has declared any policy changes, and today the news is that the oceans are absorbing more heat than we thought (and hence the problem is worse than we thought).

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-46046067

Abandon all hope?