Taylor ≈ Programmer

Reproducing a sociology simulation paper about social norms and the tendency towards low-quality exchanges and suboptimal outcomes.

Using Cognitect’s aws-api library to work with AWS is nice and easy (and simple).

GraalVM enables interesting new interop scenarios between its hosted languages.

Clojure.spec has been available (in alpha) for some time, and there are great talks and resources like the rationale and official guide.

I had an itch to implement some basic CSS selectors for Hickory, a Clojure HTML representation.

GraalVM 1.0.0-RC7 adds HTTPS as a supported protocol, and this is a brief walkthrough for using it in a Clojure project with GraalVM Community Edition for macOS.

Parsing is fun, and I’ve covered some simple Parsec-style parsers in previous posts, but this one’s about Clojure and Instaparse.

This post covers some toy problems I’ve solved with Clojure’s core.logic.

GraalVM makes it possible to compile JVM-based programs ahead-of-time into a native executable, with significant improvements to startup time, resource usage, etc.

Clojure.spec for functions by example: their inputs, outputs, and the relationships between them.