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,
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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
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
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
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