I love reading things like this:

https://jank-lang.org/blog/2026-05-08-optimization/

#jank #clojure #lisp #optimization

@dahukanna @woozle

Well said. Esp. when things are HARD, like the wicked problems that ail our world, #ClimateChange for instance. Everyone should contribute their fair share, right? Give just their 2 cents?

#Emergence deals with radical #Simplicity. But simple ain't easy.

Wicked problems require wicked solutions. Numerous tiny #solution increments made all over the place by different people. It requires 'thinking at scale' for prolonged times, and 'doing' on the basis of that. In terms of planning for that 'Bigger Ideas' need time to mature and ripen, and this too involves many people. And is emergent and evolutionary in nature too! This great animation on "Where good ideas come from" calls this the 'Slow Hunch"..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NugRZGDbPFU

#SX's slow hunch took 11 years.

There's another great vid by Rich HIckey, creator of #Clojure, besides "Hammock Driven Development" mentioned in the article, titled "Simple made Easy" given at a #StrangeLoop conference..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SxdOUGdseq4

Hell, yes, comrade Rich Hickey: https://gist.github.com/richhickey/ea94e3741ff0a4e3af55b9fe6287887f

#Clojure #AntiLLM #Lisp

By the way, Clojurists Together (which Jepsen helps fund!) offers grants to support the development of open-source #Clojure projects. You can apply here: https://www.clojuriststogether.org/open-source/

I've not really posted anything on my #blog for a while, and one of the reasons was that every time I tried to, I ended up having to work on catching up on a bunch of #hugo changes before the blog would build because inevitable on one of my four "main" machines, the blog wouldn't build due to some backward-incompatible changes.

Any recommendation for a static site generator that takes backward compatibility a bit more seriously? I've used #Jekyll in the past but I haven't looked into the state of that ecosystem for years.

My strong preference would be for a static site generator written in #clojure, #ClojureScript, #CommonLisp or #emacslisp. Preferably one that integrates well with #isso for comments.

Not interested in a more "dynamic" system like Ghost - I moved away from WordPress quite a while ago to reduce the amount of maintenance and attack surface, and I don't want to go back.