The Hidden Lessons in a re-frame App
by Laurence Chen
I took over a web application whose frontend was built with re-frame, and not long after I started working on it, I felt a bit of discomfort. So, I decided
On Cognitive Alignment
by Laurence Chen
There was once a time when a client asked me to add a rate limit to an HTTP API. I quickly identified three similar options, all of which could apply
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