On Extensibility

by Laurence Chen For a long time, I had a misunderstanding about Clojure: I always thought that the extensibility Clojure provides was just about macros. Not only that, but many articles I read

Why Clojure?

This is about a 17 minute read. Feel free to pause and come back to it later. Clojure is not one of the handful of "big" mainstream languages. This means that

Ornament

by Laurence Chen Well done on the Compass app. I really like how fast it is (while retaining data consistently which is hugely undervalued these days). I’m not just being polite, I

The Admin Process

by Laurence Chen My friend Karen joined an online community of product managers and took on the task of managing a mentor-mentee matchmaking system. She has years of experience as a product manager