Conversational software development

I’ve been slacking on the blogging front, sorry about that! But I haven’t been idle, I’ve been pushing out Conjure releases and speaking at conferences as much as possible. I thought I’d post something here to prove I’m still around and still hacking around with weird Lisp-y ideas. Here’s all of my recent-ish videos from my YouTube, with more to...

A lot of this has been made irrelevant or far easier in Aniseed v3.0.0+. There’s a bunch of macros and helper scripts that remove a lot of the boilerplate, check out the documentation! The sentiment of this post is still accurate, it’s just easier to implement now. In the beginning, there was Vim Script (also known as VimL). All Vim...

14-06-2020: Updated the post to reflect the current state of Conjure. Conjure is my attempt at Clojure and ClojureScript tooling for Neovim. Here’s a quick demo of Conjure in action for those of you that haven’t seen it before. I’m going to help you get Clojure code evaluating in a matter of minutes, you’ll be able to try Conjure for yourself and...

I’ve written pretty extensively about how to start a prepl as well as what prepls are. I’ve also written a few tools such as Conjure and Propel that wouldn’t exist without it. Since fantastic tools such as shadow-cljs are beginning to implement their own prepls I thought it was about time I transcribed my understating of how the prepl should be...

I’ve procrastinated my way to yet another blogging stack and I’m very happy with it! I’m going to walk you through how it works and show you a few tricks of prepl based development I found along the way. If you like the idea of this approach feel free to fork Olical/blog. Previous worlds My poor blog has been through quite a few iterations, I...