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defn

The world's greatest vegetarian Clojure podcast. Support us on https://patreon.com/defn  Hosted by Josh Glover and Ray McDermott

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Episodes

#43 - Alex Yakushev

In this episode Alex stuns us with his preferred option in the spaces / tabs debate. He goes on to impress with his work on Clojure performance at scale. Here are some links to his work: Writing: http://clojure-goes-fast.com Code: https://github.com/clojure-goes-fast/clj-memory-meter Follow Alex on Twitter: https://twitter.com/unlog1c Sadly, we didn't get around to talk about this on the show but it's a great favourite of the community: https://github.com/alexander-yakushev/compliment

Dec 26, 20181 hr 20 min

#42 -António Monteiro

Links of Note: * https://github.com/anmonteiro/lumo * António's talk on ReasonML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XLnWMfdbQEo * http://unikernel.org/ * https://reasonml.github.io/ * https://zeit.co/ Serverless Platform

Dec 02, 20181 hr 30 min

#41 - Timothy Baldridge aka @halgari

An epic tour de force with Timothy. This is our longest episode yet so you may have to hit the pause button once or twice! He has many interesting stories and opinions so we just couldn't stop talking :) [ On this show at least he is not as stern as the photo suggests ] Links Twitter - https://twitter.com/timbaldridge Github - https://github.com/halgari Youtube - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCLxWPHbkxjR-G-y6CVoEHOw PivotShare tutorials - https://tbaldridge.pivotshare.com/home

Nov 05, 20181 hr 53 min

#40 - Nikita Prokopov aka @tonsky

Links of Interest: Tonsky's Website: http://tonsky.me Flutter https://flutter.io FiraCode Font: https://github.com/tonsky/FiraCode Nikita's blog post : http://tonsky.me/blog/disenchantment/ DataScript: https://github.com/tonsky/datascript Rum: https://github.com/tonsky/rum

Oct 18, 20181 hr 7 min

#35 Thomas Heller aka @thheller

Heller woke podcast where Thomas cuts a sharp silhouette while discussing his work on the awesome shadow-cljs

May 12, 20181 hr 12 min

#34 - Mike Thompson aka @wazound

Mike tells us how ClojureScript has finally steered him towards a decent replacement for Flash. There are many pearls of wisdom from the reframe supremo including his insights on documentation and we could listen forever to his views on finite state machines. More info and links over on https://defn.audio

Apr 15, 20181 hr 28 min

#33 - Pierre-Yves Ritschard aka @pyr

We talk with Pierre-Yves about how he uses Clojure in the Cloud and why he and his co-founders are betting the business on it. Vijay also wants to submit to bit-masking. Yeah, so be sure to listen to the end. More information and links are posted on the website http://defn.audio

Mar 18, 20181 hr 18 min

#32 - Conrad Barski aka @lisperati

Conrad speaks clearly about his love of LISP and how that evolved into Clojure. His projects have been inspired by teaching and remaining true to the spirit of LISPs as a toolkit for building languages and now we see that being brought to the blockchain. It never grows old ! More information at the web site https://defn.audio

Feb 25, 20181 hr 32 min

# 31 - Bruce Figgy Hauman aka @bhauman

Oh man, so nice to speak with Bruce. He is such a great programmer and has inspired the whole Clojure community with his amazing tools. It's a long episode, as it should be.

Feb 10, 20181 hr 43 min

# 30 - Zach Tellman aka @ztellman

The towering intellect of Mr Tellman is manifold. Bit of a #Clojure joke there. This is a LOOOONG high density episode so strap in. Also, take your time. Breath. And enjoy! Go over to the web site for information and links https://defn.audio

Jan 27, 20181 hr 43 min

#29.b - Zach "It's Aliiiive" Oakes

Our theory was that one day, with enough swearing, we could reach a zen like understanding with our guests. Here's the proof. Watch the heck out 2018.

Jan 01, 201821 min

#29 - Zach "The Mighty" Oakes

Hold on to your Explicit Tags cowboys as we take this wild ride into the dynamic world of Clojure's own Bob Ross aka Mr Zach Oakes. There is a special surprise at the end for those who can take the pace ! A very, very proud Happy Clojuremas to one and all.

Dec 24, 20171 hr 15 min

#28 - Max Penet aka @mpenet

An entertaining episode with the Max Penet who has made his own keyboards as well as some popular Clojure libraries for noSQL databases. [ We know the track is slightly crackly but we think the content is good so we hope that it's good enough for the non-audiopholes out there ]

Dec 17, 20171 hr 16 min

#27 with Daniel Compton aka @danielwithmusic

Daniel speaks to us from a room of ethereal light and inspiration. As well as being as an expert on New Zealand geography, he is a stalwart of the Clojure community working on flashy GUIs and essential infrastructure projects. More show notes at https://defn.audio

Nov 26, 20171 hr 17 min

#26 with David Nolen aka @swannodette

We talk with David about the mind blowing possibilities that have emerged with ClojureScript over the past few years and how it is set to rocket into the future. Please check the web site for more detailed show notes https://defn.audio If you wish to support the show you can use Patreon https://www.patreon.com/defn

Nov 13, 20171 hr 6 min

#24.JOY.EC2017 Bonus Episode - The Joy of EuroClojure aka @iamjoyclark

Where we talk with The Joy [ Clarke ] of EuroClojure Joy gave a talk at EuroClojure about keeping security simple https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lRHPZXKQVLk&index=8&list=PLZdCLR02grLpzt6WENiHe16-vx74VbCw_ Security makes us all feel vulnerable and we had a safe space in Berlin. As usual we bang on about frameworks and libs. Joy gives Emacs one finger (rather than all 10) and uses NightCoder. Check out her sketch notes from the conference and other places on here Twitter feed.

Sep 26, 201721 min

#23 The Right Honourable Stuart Halloway

Wherein we discuss a sweeping array of topics - the history of Cognitect - the story of Spec - past and future of Datomic - maybe Clojure isn't quite dead yet Phew! Thanks very much to Stu for giving his time to us and the community and for his openness to both ours and community questions

Jun 19, 20171 hr 24 min

#21 - James Reeves aka @weavejester

Wow - we speak with @weavejester himself. This was a fun episode for us and there are some true gems from the library master himself, Mr James Reeves. More details and links over the web site: http://defn.audio Please tweet or retweet the defn Twitter account if you enjoy: https://twitter.com/defnpodcast Thanks :)

May 11, 20171 hr 13 min

#20 - Eric Normand

Eric imparts his smooth, smooth tones and worldly wisdom to the Defn podcast crew. See the full show notes over at https://defn.audio

Apr 11, 20171 hr 11 min

#19 - Carin Meier

Where we meet Carin and and, when we can get a break from laughing, discuss chickens and the weather. A little bit on Pascal, oh and Clojure too! Show notes at https://defn.audio

Mar 26, 20171 hr 13 min

#18 - Gijs Stuurman

Where we meet Gijs and and, among other things, discuss his latest Clojure project: CREPL Show notes are at https://defn.audio

Feb 19, 201755 min

#17 - Village Idiots

One for the vi lovers ;-) **Credits** Music Thanks to youthful exuberance of PTZERY for the intro / outro music The track name, chiming with our show theme, is Melon Hamburger https://soundcloud.com/ptzery/melon-hamburger. Listen to more of his work via his SoundCloud https://soundcloud.com/ptzery Design Thanks to the fabulous freelance designer, Lubov Soltan for the logo Follow her on Twitter @moolver_sin https://twitter.com/moolver_sin Check out her work at Deviant Art http://moolver-sin.devia...

Jan 19, 201748 min

#16 - Malcolm Sparks

- Before Clojure ... journey to enlightenment - JUXT ... what it is and how it's going - Yada - defn community questions for Malcolm More details and links on the defn web site https://defn.audio/2016/12/15/episode-16-malcolm-sparks/

Dec 15, 20161 hr 13 min
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