Ep 062: 2019 in Review

Functional Design in Clojure

Each week, we discuss a different topic about Clojure and functional programming.

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This week, the topic is: "2019." We look back at the past year and highlight our favorite episodes.

Selected quotes:

• "2020 is the year of perfect hindsight."
• "Even we are surprised at what we recorded."
• "Mutation is like weak bricks in your solution tower, they could fail you at any time."
• "The Twitter API is just a whole bag of side effects."
• "Programming without I/O is just warming your room."
• "Not everything does all the things perfectly in all the ways."
• "Complexity really is the killer in long term projects."

Related episodes:

• The REPL Series (12-14)
  • 012: Embrace the REPL
  • 014: Fiddle with the REPL
• The Time Tracking Series (15-20)
  • 016: When 8 - 1 = 6
  • 018: Did I Work Late on Tuesday?
• The Twitter Poster Series (21-27)
  • 022: Evidence of Attempted Posting
  • 024: You Are Here, But Why?
• The Donut Logs Series (28-35)
  • 032: Call Me Lazy
  • 034: Break the Mold
• Advocacy Episodes (36-39)
  • 036: Why Do You Recommend Clojure?
  • 037: What Advice Would You Give to Someone Getting Started With Clojure?
  • 038: How do I convince my coworkers to use Clojure?
  • 039: Why use Clojure over another functional language?
• 040: Should I use lein, boot, or tools.deps?
• Data Episodes (41-42)
  • 041: Why do Clojurians make such a big deal about immutability?
  • 042: What does it mean to be 'data-oriented'?
• Questions from our listeners (43-48)
  • 046: When is Clojure not the right tool for the job?
  • 047: What is "nil punning"?
  • 048: Help! How do I fix my REPL?
• Word! Word! Word! Series (aka Nountober) (49-52)
  • 049: Keywords! Keywords! Keywords!
  • 052: Functions! Functions! Functions!
• 053: How can I save my data from serialization?
• 054: The Forest in the Trees
• 055: Sets! What are they good for?
• 056: Opt-In Complexity
• 057: Clojure/Conj 2019 Recap
• Reduce, Reducers, and Transducers (58-61)
  • 061: Transcendental Transformations