Have you ever been there? You've just finished a brilliant piece of code, designed a slick UI, or found the perfect example for a tutorial. You take a screenshot to share your work, but when you look at it… it's just… plain. You could share…
Published: 2025-05-15, Last Updated: 2025-05-17 In case you don’t know it, we can use raw strings, like embedding JS code, in hiccup. I just found out we can use raw to prevent strings from getting escaped. I used to have to define a dedica…
Published: 2025-04-29, Last Updated: 2025-05-17 Sometimes, we may want a few examples of a Clojure API for inspiration while developing, especially when reading other people's or open source code. With Cider in Emacs, we can run M-x cider-d…
Published: 2025-04-23, Last Updated: 2025-05-17 So you're more than excited to find out how Clojure's thread macros can make code clean and concise, you just love it! But at some point you'll be trapped a bit as the threaded argument's posi…
When you’re building a side project, chances are you need to collect user events so that you can understand user behaviors better and eventually improve your product. So recently I made a small ClojureScript library for that, it supports we…
Published: 2025-04-05, Last Updated: 2025-05-17 In Clojure, we can use comment (aka Rich Comment Blocks) for tests or experiments in development. However, since a comment evaluates to nil, you may run into surprising results or even errors
Published: 2025-02-22, Last Updated: 2025-10-17 A few years ago, I made a simple web app in Flask to deal with some text processing problems from my daily work. It has two main features: BTW, I'm improving my English by watching YouTube vid…
Published: 2025-01-05, Last Updated: 2025-02-20 I was wondering how to construct a multi-key map conditionally while I was coding in Clojure. Ideally, I would like to build it "in one pass" like {:bar 2 (when true :baz 3)}, but from what I
Here is the outline for my cider tutorial on YouTube, covering basic things you need to know to get started with cider, and starting exploring the fun of clojure programming with the REPL-driven programming approach. Note: I prefer to use t…
Published: 2024-11-28, Last Updated: 2025-02-26 While refactoring the live reload feature of Clay, I realized I'd better break long functions into smaller and functional ones (as many as I can), which is also a common practice in the clojur…
Published: 2024-11-08, Last Updated: 2024-11-10 While adding the live reload feature to Clay, I encountered a problem of applying anonymous functions to thread macros. For example, below is a simple snippet trying to wrap the input director…
It has been some time since I came along the idea of the w/join-lines command to join lines. After that, sometimes I found that it would be even better to join every a few lines. Let's see the example below, suppose we've copies some data f…