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When you’re out there, struggling to create, staring at the blank page, the blank canvas, or the blank MS Paint window, you might be thinking “I have nothing to say”, and you might be right.1 Yet that is not the problem, is it?

When you’re debugging a web service, it’s handy if you can get all the log entries associated with a single HTTP request.

Thanks to some organizational surprises, I’m now developing web services in Python.

I’ve had three rolls of medium-format (120) film sitting in my fridge.

New year, new shenanigans, as we say in Finland.

I work as a software consultant.

Fighting over syntax formatting in code review is, mostly, waste of time.

If you want mandatory code review to really suck, make it slow.

Last week, Camille Fournier tweeted this: Questioning the value of mandatory code review is definitely the most popular underground belief held by senior engineers I know It launched a discussion about the merits of code review and a bunch of people came…

One of the problems with JSON is its limited selection of datatypes.

This post continues from where part 3 ended.

This post continues from where part 2 ended.

This post continues from where part 1 ended.

Last week I hiked the Karhunkierros trail.

In the project I’m working on, we have been tracking the test coverage of a Clojure web backend with Cloverage and Codecov.

If you have ever talked to an experienced software developer about tech conferences, you have probably heard them say something like this: “Oh, I mostly ignore the talks and focus on talking with people in the hallway.”

Daido Moriyama is one of the best-known Japanese photographers.

I’ve got a new camera: Ricoh GR III.

Shawn Blanc wrote about how he switched to a Moccamaster for brewing his morning coffee.

Two years ago I wrote about the Clojure test runner of my dreams.

It’s time to look back at 2018 and talk about me.

One of the new features in Clojure 1.10 is tap.

Every now and then I see people asking what Clojure and ClojureScript libraries they should be using.

For a long time, I used a Haglöfs Tight Evo XL as my everyday backpack.

Have you ever contributed a patch to an open-source project, got it merged, and then waited months for a new release that would include your patch?

After five years of using Hakyll to generate this site from a bunch of Markdown files, I finally migrated to Hugo.

At Metosin, we have been thinking about interceptors in Clojure and ClojureScript.

Last week, I attended The Lead Developer conference in London.

Last summer, inspired by Rich Hickey and the general trends, I bought a hammock.

Wouldn’t it be handy to be able to edit the contents of the clipboard in a text editor?

There’s a tech conference or a meet-up coming up and you want to give a talk.

There’s an annoying conversational anti-pattern for which I’d like to have a name.

It’s January, so it’s time to look both at the past and at the future!

I’ve poked a bit at Secure Scuttlebutt (SSB).

At Metosin, we’ve released the first version of our own JSON library for Clojure, jsonista.

I’m going to take a break from blogging on quanttype.

I want to tell you about descriptive complexity theory, but it’s hard to explain if you don’t know what first-order logic is.

When you release a new version of your library, please do a favor to your users and publish a changelog entry highlighting the most important changes.

If you’re a Clojure programmer, it’s likely that you don’t write many macros.

A pond in the Isokuru gorge.

When you review code, what do you focus on?

Do you like pair programming?

I aim to publish a blog post every week, at least when it’s not vacation season.

Clojure people sometimes talk about hybrid maps.

The basic dilemma of ZuriHac: to stay inside and code or to enjoy the lake?

Commit messages written in rush tend to be less than helpful.

I was on a boat and it had strings attached.

I love it when people link to their RSS feed and it’s actually Atom.

Some tools do not require configuration at all.

Studying functional analysis will help you understand wavelets.