ejstembler

I have 211+ programming books in my library going back to 1998. I don't consider any books from 16 years ago to be valuable or relevant today.

I believe it would be beneficial to supply more example projects. I found one, https://github.com/furkan3ayraktar/clojure-polylith-realworl..., however, it uses SQLite. Maybe an example which uses Postgres, and Redis for caching would be more real-world? Also, maybe a few deployment examples? Heroku, AWS, GCP, Kubernetes?

One question I have, how are ENV variable driven configurations handled? For example, if I need a `DATABASE_URL` etc. I recently ran into an issue, https://discord.com/channels/313110246643990528/313110246643..., in my own Clojure web service attempt where I could not use `def` to define the individual variables since they are evaluated at Uberjar build time. I eventually converted it to a `defn` but then it gets evaluated every time it's used.

I've had a blog since 1998, though my posting frequency has waxed and waned over the years. I use it as a partial résumé and also as outlet for my interests. Mainly, Software Engineering, Machine Learning, Data Science, Electronics, Robotics, Cooking, DIY, Cars, Travel.

Last year I had a falling out with my blog host, GoDaddy. They convinced me to upgrade up a level ($3xx). Though when their site transfer service didn't work they said they'd have to charge me another $150 to get the back-up. That's when I cancelled all of my accounts with them. I didn't like WordPress/PHP anyhow. In my haste to cancel GoDaddy, I forgot to export my content from WordPress. That's when I slowly starting writing my blog from scratch using Crystal, Kemal, and Bulma. Some of my content I was able to retrieve via scraping the Internet Archive, and some I was able to extract from Mars Edit by parsing the Content.plist files.

I'm very happy with the blog code and utilities I wrote, it was a fun exercise. Now I need to dedicate more time to writing...

For the last couple of years I've lived pretty much exclusive in the Ruby/RubyMine, Python/PyCharm, Scala/IntelliJ worlds.

However, I recently finished a medium-sized Crystral project only using VSCode. For debugging, I wrote unit tests and kept Sentry running. The compiler pretty much catches everything else. The combination worked out very well.

“If I finish a book a week, I will read only a few thousand books in my lifetime, about a tenth of a percent of the contents of the greatest libraries of our time. The trick is to know which books to read.” ― Carl Sagan, Cosmos