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Advent of Parens 2019

Ah, the advent, the four weeks leading up to Christmas. That period of glühwein and office year-end parties.

The last couple of years I’ve taken part in the Advent of Code, a series of programming puzzles posted daily. They’re generally fun to do and wrapped in a nice narrative. They also as the days progress start taking up way too much of my time, so this year I won’t be partaking in Advent of Code, instead I’m trying something new.

From the first to the 24th of December I challenge myself to write a single small blog post every day. If my friend Sarah Mirk can do a daily zine for a whole year, surely I can muster a few daily paragraphs for four weeks.

I’ve been keeping some notes of things I want to mention. It’ll be a hodge podge of topics, sharing tips and tricks about Clojure, Emacs, UNIX; pointing at cool tools and libraries I came across in the past year, and perhaps some end-of-year rumination and reflection, should the mood strike.

These posts will be a little different stylistically from the usual Lambda Island material. I usually like to provide ample context and cover topics in depth. This time I’ll be brief and get to the point. Another way to look at it is that these will be the kind of extra things that you pick up when watching Lambda Island videos, a handy Emacs binding, a shell command you hadn’t seen before, or an elegant Clojure idiom.

If you feel inspired to do your own advent of blog posts then let me know, I’ll be happy to add a link. I hope it will be adventageous ;)

Other people doing Advent of Parens 2019:

Arne Brasseur

Arne Brasseur