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May 24, 2024

Crustimoney - a Clojure PEG parser [en]

This post introduces the Crustimoney library - a Clojure idiomatic PEG parser. Though the recent rewrite was a mental excercise, the result may benefit others as well.

Mar 3, 2024

Redelay 2.0 released [en]

The redelay library - the unassuming state lifecycle tool - had several unreleased improvements piling up. Some of these are breaking, so a new major version has finally been released. This short post goes through the improvements.

Jul 4, 2020

A small update of the rmap library [en]

Version 2.1.0 of rmap has been released. This release has some small but powerful additions, one of which is the #rmap/ref tagged literal support. Read on what possibilities this yields.

Jun 26, 2020

Introducing redelay [en]

During the development of another library, a new lifecycle managment library for Clojure "revealed" itself. Without getting too entangled in Heidegger's philosophy, this blog post discusses this new library, named "redelay".

Jun 11, 2020

Introducing lifted [en]

In Clojure I prefer working with plain functions over protocols, yet protocols are an important part of testable IO boundaries. After writing too many forwarding-to-plain-function-protocol-implementations, I decided to have Clojure macros do this for me. This has now been put into a small library: lifted.

Jun 4, 2020

Introducing rmap 2.0 [en]

After six years my Clojure library called 'rmap' - a library for defining literal recursive maps - has seen its first major update. Version 2.0 is far simpler and more powerful because of it. Read more about it in this post.

May 28, 2019

Component-lite, did I finally crack the code?! [en]

While I'm a big fan of the easy approach of the mount-lite library, some projects are better suited for a more functional approach, such as with the Component and Integrant libraries. However, working with Component never felt really right. This post is about an Component-like alternative, that seems to feel right.

Jan 6, 2018

Mount-lite 2.1: inferred state graphs are back! [en]

Version 2.1.1 of mount-lite has been released. This release brings back state dependency graphs based on namespace declarations. This post describes why and how the feature was re-added and how to use it.