Thomas Cothran

Pavlov brings behavioral programming to web development

The use of with-redefs in tests indicates a poor understanding of good testing practices

Carson Gross’ “Codin’ Dirty” essay is designed to provoke controversy.

Can bthreads make event-driven programs both simple and easy?

Behavioral programming is a relatively new programming paradigm that excels at isolating behavior in event-driven systems.

The ocelot game works like this: a developer has written a feature, and presents it to an ocelot.

When I first became interested in functional programming, a more experienced engineer told me: “you know functional programming doesn’t really amount to much more than procedural programming.”

This is the second post in the series “Have Clojure UIs Taken the Wrong Path?”.

The Clojure community has focused on React-based solutions for complex front-end clients such as Reagent, Rum, Om, Re-frame, and Fulcro.

Andy Hunt and Dave Thomas tell us: 'it’s critical that you write code that is readable and easy to reason about.'

The library locker antipattern occurs when we try to add functionality to a library function, but do so without separating concerns.

Avoid writing brittle Clojure with tactics for flexibility and robustness.

Feature branching with large monoliths causes merge hell.

Are debates about software just differences of opinion?

A procedure is recursive if it invokes itself.

The polymath Blaise Pascal envisaged a triangle built of numbers.