Clojure GitHub Actions

I recently took over the maintenance of an open source Clojure project. One of the first things I noticed was the lack CI or CD. These are things that aren't required but can save a lot of work, especially for a public project.

Distrobox in practice

Distrobox is the single piece of software that completely changed the way I work. If you've hear of or used Vagrant and thought it was a great idea but implemented in a really heavy handed manner, then Distrobox is exactly what you've been looking for.

When DRY goes wrong

DRY has become a mantra throughout the industry. Any time repetitive code shows up, DRY gets applied as a cure all. If you even start to question DRYing up a piece of code, you are viewed as a heretic to the entire industry.

Picking a Linux Distro

I recently started a new job that gave me the chance to run whatever Linux distribution would make me the most productive. In the face of complete freedom, I decided to re-evaluate my daily driver and see if there was a distribution that would give me the most up-to-date software while maintaining a stable system. The results of my search surprised even me.

Managing local common lisp projects

When I started using lisp, I came from the world of modern dependency managers (npm, pip, maven, and the like). So I started searching for an equivalent in lisp. I quickly came across quicklisp. To my surprise, however, quicklisp worked differently than these packages. It works more like a dependency cache than true dependency manager, but that is a topic for another article.

Type safe Django app, Part 3

In Part 2 we got a taste of using returns and created our first model methods. In this part, we will build out views that interact with databases and learn how to combine returns containers. This composition is the key to effectively using container types and where we will see the benefits of all our work.