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Daniel Compton

Daniel Compton talks to Clojure and ClojureScript developers about the libraries and systems they have built. They dive into the nitty-gritty details and technical challenges the authors fac...

Episodes

20 of 56 episodes

56: XTDB: A Bitemporal database in Clojure

Jeremy Taylor and James Henderson talk about building XTDB, bitemporality, SQL compatibility, and Apache Arrow. Launching XTDB v2 Grid Dynam...

01:17:09Jun 13, 2025

55: Instant: a modern Firebase in Clojure, with Stepan Parunashvili

Stepan Parunashvili talks about Instant, datalog, building a database in Clojure, and the demands of building modern applications. Instant D...

00:52:06Oct 18, 2024

54: JRuby with Charles Oliver Nutter

Charles Oliver Nutter talks about JRuby, the JVM, JRuby 10, improving JRuby startup time, and going independent. JRuby Headius Enterprises V...

00:54:15Sep 17, 2024

53: Clojure LSP with Eric Dallo

Eric Dallo talks about the LSP protocol, and Clojure LSP. Sorry about the audio quality on this recording, I missed that I was using my MacB...

00:33:27Apr 21, 2024

52: Coding in YAML with Ingy döt Net

Ingy döt Net talks about his new programming language YAMLScript, compiling YAML to Clojure, and the development of the YAML format. SML mai...

00:58:17Apr 14, 2024

51: Building a text editor with Nate Hunzaker

Nate Hunzaker talks about building a text editor for the web. Slate Lexical beforeInput event Since the podcast was recorded, Whimsical laun...

00:57:55Mar 5, 2024

50: Peter Taoussanis

Peter Taoussanis talks about Sente, Timbre, Carmine, Nippy, Tufte, and many more of his libraries. The work of Peter Taoussanis Encore namin...

01:32:26Feb 27, 2024

49: Clerk with Martin Kavalar

Martin Kavalar talks about Clerk. Clerk: Moldable Live Programming for Clojure - PX23 paper Source code for the PX23 paper PDF paper from La...

00:32:12Dec 29, 2023

48: Biff with Jacob O'Bryant

Jacob O'Bryant talks about Biff, XTDB, and building a web framework for small teams. Tools for Online Speech - Jacob's Personal Site Biff we...

00:49:48Sep 16, 2023

47: Executable textbooks with Sam Ritchie

Sam Ritchie talks about the Mentat Collective, executable textbooks, visual math. Mentat Collective GitHub - read this first to get an overv...

00:54:18Jan 12, 2023

46: ClojureDart with Christophe Grand and Baptiste Dupuch

Christophe Grand and Baptiste Dupuch talk about ClojureDart, a new dialect of Clojure. ClojureDart Skia flutter-mx DartClojure Tweet from sh...

00:41:52Dec 23, 2022

45: Data Rabbit with Ryan Robitaille

Ryan Robitaille talks about data visualisation, and building a visual coding environment in Clojure. Data Rabbit "Programming is blindly man...

00:29:47Oct 3, 2022

44: Jank with Jeaye Wilkerson

Jeaye Wilkerson talks about compilers, LLVM, and building a dynamic, compiled Clojure. Note: I used the wrong link initially when publishing...

00:42:52Sep 17, 2022

43: Clojure, The Essential Reference with Renzo Borgatti

Renzo Borgatti talks about what he learnt while creating his reference of the Clojure standard library, and about the re:Clojure conference....

00:58:32Nov 13, 2021

42: Faster JSON parsing with Erik Assum

Erik Assum talks about clj-commons, speeding up clojure.data.json, and asks Daniel what he's been up to.. Idealcast - Gene Kim, Michael Nyga...

00:55:37Oct 7, 2021

41: Clojure pre-history with Chris Houser

Chris Houser (Chouser) reflects on the early years of Clojure, Clojure's features, and applying the lessons of Clojure elsewhere.. Note: thi...

00:39:37Sep 20, 2021

40: Shipping Clojure code with Paulus Esterhazy

Paulus Esterhazy talks about trunk-based development, monorepos, path-focused design, and fast feedback. Pitch clojureD 2020: "Angels Singin...

00:57:44Sep 13, 2021

39: Clojure Goes Fast with Alexander Yakushev

Alexander Yakushev talks about performance measurement tools, and Clojure Goes Fast. Grammarly Clojure Goes Fast clj-async-profiler Why (Mos...

00:58:47Sep 6, 2021

38: Banking and Clojure with Allen Rohner

Allen Rohner talks about Griffin, building a new bank, and Bazel. Griffin Monzo New Bank Start-up unit 2008 United Kingdom bank rescue packa...

00:28:26Aug 31, 2021

37: The Clojurists Together Foundation with lvh

lvh talks about the Clojurists Together Foundation.. Announcing the Clojurists Together Foundation Clojurists Together Announcing Summer of...

00:24:44May 21, 2020