Cameron Desautels
@camdez.com
Founder and CEO at CollBox. Emacs, Clojure, &c.—tea enthusiast, erstwhile vagabond, libertine, & over-thinker.
https://camdez.com
https://camdez.com
I’m gonna start using this line on everything I create.
May 17, 2025 at 3:11 AM
I’m gonna start using this line on everything I create.
I’m perpetually amazed how much abuse the English language can take without breaking.
April 25, 2025 at 3:01 PM
I’m perpetually amazed how much abuse the English language can take without breaking.
More Clojure bits: camdez.com/blog/2025/04...
(I'm trying to train myself share the little things and not get fussy about having something "big" to share.)
(I'm trying to train myself share the little things and not get fussy about having something "big" to share.)
Fixed Order Sorting in Clojure
Here’s another tidy bit of Clojure that makes me happy…
Of course it’s easy to sort items in the natural order:
(sort [1 3 4 2]) ; => (1 2 3 4)
Or via a mapping to elements that sort in a natural orde...
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April 24, 2025 at 3:13 AM
More Clojure bits: camdez.com/blog/2025/04...
(I'm trying to train myself share the little things and not get fussy about having something "big" to share.)
(I'm trying to train myself share the little things and not get fussy about having something "big" to share.)
#wipwednesday I’ve been working on a series of semi-meaty clojure.core.async.flow examples and a guide to cover all of the features and hopefully some sensible dev patterns. Just starting to get them pushed. github.com/camdez/flow-...
Anything you’ve been wondering about flow? #clojure
Anything you’ve been wondering about flow? #clojure
April 24, 2025 at 1:12 AM
#wipwednesday I’ve been working on a series of semi-meaty clojure.core.async.flow examples and a guide to cover all of the features and hopefully some sensible dev patterns. Just starting to get them pushed. github.com/camdez/flow-...
Anything you’ve been wondering about flow? #clojure
Anything you’ve been wondering about flow? #clojure
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"We cannot give everyone a trial," says the president of these United States.
April 21, 2025 at 9:54 PM
"We cannot give everyone a trial," says the president of these United States.
Blog post with a touch of background on this talk: camdez.com/blog/2025/04...
The Duality of Transducers
I finally got around to re-recording and posting this talk on
Clojure’s transducers that I gave last year to the Austin Clojure
Meetup:
camdez.com
April 22, 2025 at 4:26 AM
Blog post with a touch of background on this talk: camdez.com/blog/2025/04...
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so they're mycoblogging
April 21, 2025 at 12:15 AM
so they're mycoblogging
I finally re-recorded and published my intro to Clojure's transducers talk that I gave last year. Check it out if you're a Clojure user who's not yet using transducers. It includes the insight that made me start using transducers every day: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ACwJ... #clojure
The Duality of Transducers — Clojure's Transducers from Scratch
YouTube video by Cameron Desautels
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April 21, 2025 at 1:55 AM
I finally re-recorded and published my intro to Clojure's transducers talk that I gave last year. Check it out if you're a Clojure user who's not yet using transducers. It includes the insight that made me start using transducers every day: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ACwJ... #clojure
I really need to have kids because someone needs to inherit my open tabs when I die.
April 19, 2025 at 5:38 PM
I really need to have kids because someone needs to inherit my open tabs when I die.
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Pure villainy. Time for us all to get our Navalny on
Leavitt confirmed that the WH is working on deporting US citizens to El Salvador
April 8, 2025 at 11:13 PM
Pure villainy. Time for us all to get our Navalny on
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“I promise you, (John Lewis) that I will do everything possible to make you proud.” —Cory Booker
April 1, 2025 at 11:23 PM
“I promise you, (John Lewis) that I will do everything possible to make you proud.” —Cory Booker
Ugh, TikTok’s small business propaganda campaign is so good.
April 1, 2025 at 2:03 AM
Ugh, TikTok’s small business propaganda campaign is so good.
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THE MOTHER OF ALL PAIN TRADES
In the newsletter, wrote about the simple chart that interests me more than anything else right now.
Sub here to the newsletter: www.bloomberg.com/account/news...
In the newsletter, wrote about the simple chart that interests me more than anything else right now.
Sub here to the newsletter: www.bloomberg.com/account/news...
March 21, 2025 at 4:38 PM
THE MOTHER OF ALL PAIN TRADES
In the newsletter, wrote about the simple chart that interests me more than anything else right now.
Sub here to the newsletter: www.bloomberg.com/account/news...
In the newsletter, wrote about the simple chart that interests me more than anything else right now.
Sub here to the newsletter: www.bloomberg.com/account/news...
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This is my entire life
March 17, 2025 at 1:53 AM
This is my entire life
• LLMs are powerful and useful.
• They’re a million miles from AGI.
If you can accept those facts and live in the middle ground, you’ll go far.
• They’re a million miles from AGI.
If you can accept those facts and live in the middle ground, you’ll go far.
March 14, 2025 at 2:35 AM
• LLMs are powerful and useful.
• They’re a million miles from AGI.
If you can accept those facts and live in the middle ground, you’ll go far.
• They’re a million miles from AGI.
If you can accept those facts and live in the middle ground, you’ll go far.
The best cooking advice I ever got is: "it's done when it smells like food".
Maybe that's obvious to some but it really changed things for me.
These days I throw things in the oven and go work or read; the moment I notice the smell, it's either cooked or on the verge. No timer, no burning.
Maybe that's obvious to some but it really changed things for me.
These days I throw things in the oven and go work or read; the moment I notice the smell, it's either cooked or on the verge. No timer, no burning.
March 5, 2025 at 12:25 AM
The best cooking advice I ever got is: "it's done when it smells like food".
Maybe that's obvious to some but it really changed things for me.
These days I throw things in the oven and go work or read; the moment I notice the smell, it's either cooked or on the verge. No timer, no burning.
Maybe that's obvious to some but it really changed things for me.
These days I throw things in the oven and go work or read; the moment I notice the smell, it's either cooked or on the verge. No timer, no burning.
@gosha.net Thank you for this! github.com/goshatch/org...
I’ve been too lazy to hack something up myself, but this got me over the hump.
I’ve been too lazy to hack something up myself, but this got me over the hump.
GitHub - goshatch/orgroam_to_obsidian: Convert an org-roam notes collection to markdown for Obsidian
Convert an org-roam notes collection to markdown for Obsidian - goshatch/orgroam_to_obsidian
github.com
January 27, 2025 at 1:20 AM
@gosha.net Thank you for this! github.com/goshatch/org...
I’ve been too lazy to hack something up myself, but this got me over the hump.
I’ve been too lazy to hack something up myself, but this got me over the hump.
I believe it was The Vergecast (@theverge.com) that recently succinctly explained something I hadn’t quite put my finger on:
All of the mainstream social media companies (incl. X) have become creator platforms, which are not social media in the original sense of peer-to-peer interaction.
All of the mainstream social media companies (incl. X) have become creator platforms, which are not social media in the original sense of peer-to-peer interaction.
December 18, 2024 at 2:04 AM
I believe it was The Vergecast (@theverge.com) that recently succinctly explained something I hadn’t quite put my finger on:
All of the mainstream social media companies (incl. X) have become creator platforms, which are not social media in the original sense of peer-to-peer interaction.
All of the mainstream social media companies (incl. X) have become creator platforms, which are not social media in the original sense of peer-to-peer interaction.
I bought a Steam Deck a couple months back, and it’s really been the perfect device for an occasional gamer. (🧵)
• While it can’t play all of the AAA titles, I can still play a lot of what my gamer friends talk about.
• Great emulation support
• While it can’t play all of the AAA titles, I can still play a lot of what my gamer friends talk about.
• Great emulation support
November 16, 2024 at 5:45 PM
I bought a Steam Deck a couple months back, and it’s really been the perfect device for an occasional gamer. (🧵)
• While it can’t play all of the AAA titles, I can still play a lot of what my gamer friends talk about.
• Great emulation support
• While it can’t play all of the AAA titles, I can still play a lot of what my gamer friends talk about.
• Great emulation support
How did Carl know about TikTok?
Today would have been Carl Sagan's 90th birthday. He wrote this in 1995. Carl was absolutely right. #CarlSaganDay
November 16, 2024 at 12:03 AM
How did Carl know about TikTok?
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x.com is training on your conversation history and didn’t announce this fact. You disable this here: www.forbes.com/sites/johnko... (or you can delete your account)
x.com
x.com
November 15, 2024 at 7:09 PM
x.com is training on your conversation history and didn’t announce this fact. You disable this here: www.forbes.com/sites/johnko... (or you can delete your account)
Shout out to all my Clojure maintainers, whose diligence and good taste make it trivial to upgrade all of my dependencies without any breakage yet again. This community is special.
November 15, 2024 at 12:33 PM
Shout out to all my Clojure maintainers, whose diligence and good taste make it trivial to upgrade all of my dependencies without any breakage yet again. This community is special.
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Notes on Upgrading Datomic On-Prem to v1.0.6726: https://camdez.com/blog/2023/05/07/notes-on-upgrading-datomic-on-prem-to-v1.0.6726/
Notes on Upgrading Datomic On-Prem to v1.0.6726
After the exciting news from the Clojure/conj that
Datomic is now free, I was excited to get home and upgrade and
access newer features and high-availability. Herein are notes from
how that upgrade process went that I help will be helpful to anyone
else upgrading, including difficulties I had running the official
Datomic AMIs.
camdez.com
May 7, 2023 at 10:24 PM
Notes on Upgrading Datomic On-Prem to v1.0.6726: https://camdez.com/blog/2023/05/07/notes-on-upgrading-datomic-on-prem-to-v1.0.6726/