defn

defn

The world's greatest vegetarian Clojure podcast. Support us on https://patreon.com/defn Hosted by Josh Glover and Ray McDermott

Episodes

June 9, 2025 98 mins

Where Drew comes to the parentheses and how he was stretched and has risen above.

Guest

  • Drew Raines

Hosts

  • Josh Glover
  • Ray McDermott

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Episode 1a156fe163a1 Nathan Marz

Where Nathan explains the lead up to Rama and explains some of its extraordinary powers.

References:

Grace Hopper on Letterman: https://youtu.be/oE2uls6iIEU?si=4x1PUPyffBE2DK9F

Red Planet Labs: https://redplanetlabs.com/

Introducing Rama: https://blog.redplanetlabs.com/2023/08/15/how-we-reduced-the-cost-of-building-twitter-at-twitter-scale-by-100x/

Rama Demos: https://github.com/redplanetlabs/rama-demo-ga...

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April 9, 2025 67 mins

6ae6acf85d52 Chris Pellets McCormick

Wherein Chris explains why nobody uses his code, not even him.

References:

PIKU https://github.com/piku/piku

NOSTR https://nostr.com/

Guest

  • Chris The Numinous-Blithe-Believer McCormick

Hosts

  • Josh The Non-BS-Believer Glover
  • Ray The Nebulous-Boggled-Believer McDermott

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January 22, 2025 107 mins

Guest

  • Kira Howe

Kira's web site for all the things

https://codewithkira.com/

Hosts

  • Josh Laid Back Glover
  • Ray The Revolutionary McDermott

OTIS

https://orgtech.se/

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December 19, 2024 113 mins

Friend of the show and of all the community Eric was back to share his wisdom. 

Sit back, relax and enjoy this end of the year discussion.

More Eric - cos we all need more Eric - is accessible from his online hub http://ericnormand.me/

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Hosts

  • Josh The Revisionist Glover
  • Ray The Revised McDermott

Guest

  • Eric Normand

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November 12, 2024 55 mins

Twas the day before Hallowe’en when Ray and Josh sat down with Kathryn Lawrence to discuss magic, randomness, art… and Clojure. 

All the things Kathryn are on her web site https://kathrynisabelle.com/

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Hosts

  • Josh The New One Glover
  • Ray The Old One McDermott

Guests

  • Kathryn Isabelle Lawrence

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October 14, 2024 65 mins

An episode that is chock full of surprises and replete with delights.

Expect to shed a few tears.

There is much to consider from our wonderful guests.

Check out Lu and their whimsical work at https://www.todepond.com/

Explore all things McCormick at Chris’s site https://mccormick.cx/

Thanks to Arne and all the folks that made Heart of Clojure such a legendary event.

Most of the talks are up on YouTube now https://www.youtube.com/@LambdaI...

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We caught hold of Gary Johnson (via Satellite) from his remote yurt to talk about Gemini Protocol, Clojure (in Sustainability business) and his two-time yurt building and living off the grid. 

Check out:

Gemini Protocol - https://geminiprotocol.net

 Space Age - the Gemini Server in Clojure  https://gitlab.com/lambdatronic/space-age

And if you have a fancy Gemini Client try these links 

=> gemini://geminiquickst.ar...

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Arne takes us behind the scenes of organizing Heart of Clojure, also shares his experience of Clojure eco system, community.

If you haven't already don't forget to get tickets for https://2024.heartofclojure.eu and when you are there say hi to defn crew :)

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We got the beautiful minds behind the cloud tech: Aurelien, Albin, and Wouter share their experience building block storage system with Clojure and Go. https://www.exoscale.com/block-storage/
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December 7, 2023 110 mins
Malcolm Sparks, CTO of JUXT (the team behind XTDB, Yada and more) returns! We talk state of software, OSS, and most importantly Malcolms Atomic Architecture (https://www.juxt.pro/blog/atomic-architecture/)
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We catchup with norsemen emacsen Magnar and Christian to talk about their Clojure adventures, how they sneaked in Clojure through unconventional techniques. Some highlights from Christian and Magnar's portfolios: - Parens of the Dead https://www.parens-of-the-dead.com/ : how to survive Zombie apocalypse with Clojure and ClojureScript. - If you are into Norwegian and want a taste of adventure https://www.adventur.no - Level u...
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September 14, 2023 115 mins
Josh joins us to talk about Clojure, engineering, teams, lambdas, Babashka and more :) Follow him on https://mas.to/@jmglov and his adventures on https://medium.com/@jmglov
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August 19, 2023 78 mins
Jacob joins us to talk about his Clojure journey and the evolution of Biff web framework. Checkout his work on https://github.com/jacobobryant and https://biffweb.com
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June 15, 2023 114 mins
Join us for another fun with Kimmo a Clojure hacker from the woods of Finland. Also, the first episode without Vijay .. finally :P https://github.com/viesti
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April 21, 2023 101 mins
Matthew Davidson, maintainer of Aleph/Manifold joins us to talk about his Clojure journey and https://www.speederino.com and zen :)
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February 24, 2023 51 mins
We are back our (ir)regular schedule! Kickstarting 2023 with Jack Rusher https://jackrusher.com - talking about Clojure, exploratory programming, types, pull requests and more!
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November 13, 2022 106 mins
We are back from long summer break with Kira McLean, clojurian and working on Clojure Data Cookbook. Follow her on for updates and check out the data cook cookbook https://github.com/scicloj/clojure-data-cookbook
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Christophe (clojure) Grand (master) and Baptiste share the behind scenes of Clojure Dart project. Check it out on: https://github.com/Tensegritics/ClojureDart
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May 21, 2022 94 mins
We invited super cute and fabulous Debbie the Corgi and also Wilker who happened to be in the same room to talk about Clojure - creator of Pathom and EQL! Check out the his blog on https://blog.wsscode.com/
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