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You know those cute little mascots that follow your cursor like needy pets? I wanted one. So I built it. No frameworks, no libraries, no npm, no bs. Just pure VanillaJS and some emotional support from chatgpt (read as: hair scratching becau…
Looking df -h my /dev/sda1 was 98% full. Oh boy! Lets dig deeper. Looks like /var needs to be cleaned up. The immediate thing visible to me is to clean up journalctl logs. TIL: docker system df is a useless command Another thing which saved…
This is not a blog post, but a continually updated resource. Last updated on 19th June 2025. My magic wand wish would have been to use clojure to script emacs. But not all dreams can come true, learning bits and pieces of elisp over the yea…
I recently read a beginners guide to extending emacs and it describes why I love emacs perfectly: I haven’t written plugins for other editors extensively, but I can tell you this: emacs doesn’t just make deep customization available, but it…
This quote1 has motivated me to start blogging again: Slowly, slowly, the web was taken over by platforms. Your feeling of success is based on your platform’s algorithm, which may not have your interests at heart. Feeding your words to a pl…
Ever found yourself deep in Clojure code, needing to implement a new type with deftype or defrecord, and suddenly your mind goes blank? “Wait, what interfaces does PersistentVector actually implement? Which protocols should _my_ type satisf…
Up untill now I have been writing clojure without looking at the documentation. To look at the documentation, I typically always want to go to clojuredocs.org But hitting K (in evil-mode) gives me the basic clojure function documentation wh…
Let’s say you’re a frontend engineer with 10 years of experience. You go into an interview, and are ready to kill it! You’re expecting questions like: “Draw your country’s flag using CSS”. How would you feel? This is what happened to someon…
It’s a Thursday morning. I woke up at 7am in Leuven, about 7000kms away from home, and rushed to the auditorium. It’s the first day of Heart of Clojure. I’m nervous, tired, and exhilarated all at the same time. My heart is racing. After fin…
So I wanted to build a state machine for a multi-select component I am building in reagent (react wrapper for clojurescript). I thought a bit about it and realised I should first start with the simplest possible state machine I can imagine.…
WHY? WHY do I spend so much time tinkering with how my blog is generated vs actually putting out content? Well, it’s a big mystery, but it scratches my itch and so I treat is as fun leisure time. The reason I mentioned in my previous post o…