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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

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