Marco Fiset

"Just go with the flow" I've come to hate that saying lately. As if the flow is gonna bring you where you want to be. That's like committing to indecision and not caring where you end up.

Invest in improving your craft through better tools and techniques, rather than seeking shortcuts that compromise professional growth. Delegating your job to AI is only a temporary convenience, while your long term professional development suffers greatly.

Cultivating a sourdough starter from scratch is so satisfying. It’s literally giving life to a little colony that will eventually turn into some of the best bread you’ve eaten in your life 🥰

The only argument that I hear people make against Clojure or lisps in general is about the number parentheses. Nobody ever has more compelling arguments against those languages. Write lisp long enough and you’ll see that the parens become completely invisible while reading the code. At least to me.

People asking “how are you?” as a conservation starter are not ready to face the consequences of their question.

Bought Diablo IV despite the mostly negative opinions about it. Having a real blast so far! Really worth it at 50% off for me as a really casual player. Not a huge fan of the previous, nor do I feel nostalgic about D2. Maybe that’s why I like it so much? I don’t know.

If you ever need a #Clojure expert prompt, you can use this: github.com/ovistoica/em.... It works surprisingly well in both project architecture and code generation. I use it with Claude and Google Gemini 2 with excellent results. It will still produce bugs, but they are very subtle.

Saw someone upbraiding someone else for having a hobby while the world is on fire, and, my friends: 1. The world is ever on fire, this is today's conflagration; 2. If you don't find time for rest and joy the fire will consume you; 3. Don't let people shame you for being an entire human.

In #clojure, do you tend to use ‘partial’ or do you prefer anonymous functions? I find myself reaching for `partial` quite often even though it’s more verbose. I even reorder the arguments of my functions from time to time so they play nice with it. What are your thoughts on this?

I love Clojure because I can write some pretty clever code using `comp`, `partial` and `juxt` although I know I won't be able to decipher it again 15 minutes later. Felt proud in the moment but I couldn't explain it to you now 😆 #adventofcode #clojure

All of you who are new around here looking for people to follow in the Elixir (the programming language) community, do yourself a favour and look for #ElixirLang and not #Elixir like I did. I thought there was no one here at first 😅