A super cool routing library for Clojure’s Ring web framework — Once of the great philosophies in the Clojure community is to build small independent specialised libraries which can be nicely composed to solve problems. …

Less Boilerplate, more productivity! — I thought I would share some of the key changes that I discovered when using an updated NgRx Store, elabourate on some of the basic components and features covered in the documentation and highlight some of the newer ways of working with NgRx Store (version 9.2.0). We will cover some…

In this post we will be exploring reducers and Clojure’s high-performance reducer library. It can be tempting to skip learning about or using reducers when first getting to grips with Clojure, as the recursive nature, higher-order functions and general nomenculture can appear daunting at first. The key to making things…

Collectively these broadcasts are known as number stations and many countries operate them. Let’s open that curiosity door… — Like most people who grew up on a diet of 1980’s culture, I am a huge fan of Stranger Things Season 3. At the beginning of Season 3 we find out that Dustin has managed to intercept a top secret radio broadcast, which features a strange coded message in Russian: …

Higher level abstractions for asynchronous things in Clojure — In this piece and I am going to explore the Manifold library to take a look at Manifold’s Deferred, Stream and Event Bus features. This is a really handy tool kit for anyone doing asynchronous programming in Clojure[Script]. …

Should we be using Monads in Clojure? — In this piece I am going to explore the world of Monads for functional programming. …

How stolen ideas, patent wars and scandal changed the world… — 1943 was an interesting time in history. World War II was causing death and destruction around the world, Alan Turing was over at Bletchley Park cracking the German Enigma code, and the US Army were hard at work perfecting the designs for the first Atomic Bombs. We have all heard…

How do Reactive Forms work under the hood? — It is time for another deep dive into Angular dear reader. In this article we are going to look at Angular’s Reactive Forms library under the hood, to see how it models forms and GUI elements. I thought I would take a slightly different approach and poke around in the…

Getting started with channels and the core.async library — Core.async is Clojure’s main library for asynchronous programming and communication. It makes asynchronous programming a lot easier by doing much of the heavy lifting for you.The library has a few objectives which you can read about here, but chiefly it aims to: To provide facilities for independent threads of activity…