Beyond the If Pattern
by Laurence Chen
In my work at Gaiwan, there was a piece of code with poor quality that always felt like a thorn in my side. For a long time, I couldn’t
On Interactive Development
by Laurence Chen
When I was a child, my sister caught chickenpox. Instead of isolating us, our parents let us continue playing together, and I ended up getting infected too. My father said,
Learning Fennel from Scratch to Develop Neovim Plugins
by Laurence Chen
As a Neovim user writing Clojure, I often watch my colleagues modifying Elisp to create plugins—for example, setting a shortcut key to convert Hiccup-formatted data in the editor into
Solving Datomic BI Integration: Why We Built Plenish
Metabase doesn’t work with Datalog? A high-performance, low-maintenance data sync solution for seamless BI dashboards
On Inspectability
by Laurence Chen
At the beginning of 2025, I took over a client project at Gaiwan. It was a legacy code maintenance project that used re-frame. While familiarizing myself with the codebase, I