Brett Rowberry’s Blog

Imagine you manage Team Awesome at Cool Company.

I use Claude Code at work.

Ingredients 2 c heavy cream 1 c whole milk 1/2 c white sugar 1/4 c brown sugar 1 Tbsp vanilla extract pinch of salt Directions Combine all ingredients into a bowl and mix.

I have a credit card that offers cash back on purchases.

I want to get into the Kotlin community to accelerate my learning.

We're switching from Clojure to Kotlin at work.

I've been using Arc Browser for a long time.

Imagine rows of letters, numbers, and Greek letters: [[:a :b] [:1 :2] [:alpha :beta]] Now, you want to transpose them.

I decided to implement linear search before going after binary search.

I consider myself a classically trained computer scientist.

+ In Clojure core there’s a handy function, +.

Computers do math really quickly.

My son asked me if I could make the computer double numbers, like 2 4 6 → 22 44 66 I started with a really ugly solution: (map (fn [x] (parse-long (clojure.string/join "" [(str x) (str x)]))) [2 4 6]) ;;=> (22 44 66) I

I was doing a little Clojure programming and my son asked me if the computer could make it go 1 2 3, 2 3 4, 3 4 5, … I thought, hmm, that’s a sliding window.

Updated September 16, 2025 to indicate that Flares have a singleton mode as explained by PEZ.

Updated September 16, 2025 after PEZ showed me how to use the sidebar panel.

Imagine you’re a salesperson for a boutique car manufacturer and you’re having a sales conversation with a new, important customer: Customer: Thanks for seeing me.

In computer science, a stack is what you think it is.

Say you want someone to do a task for you: fill out a questionnaire, sign off on a document, etc.

Imagine you’re at work and someone asks you when a new project will be done.