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A Lazy Sequence
Personal blog · brehaut.net/blogprogramming
A Lazy Sequence is a personal blog at brehaut.net about programming. Since 2010, 18 different Hacker News readers have linked it 28 times, most often “A Brief Overview of the Clojure Web Stack”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-08-23, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (11) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Brehaut's blog mainly for its Clojure web-stack overview of Ring, Compojure-style routing and middleware, and a post on iteration in programming.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 11 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- A Brief Overview of the Clojure Web Stack7 people · 8 mentions · first linked 2011-06-03
- Impedance mismatch with CouchDB2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2010-11-30
- "On iteration": Why people leave Python2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2010-02-05
- /2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2010-10-20
What Hacker News says?
One of my favorite resources is the #clojure tag on Twitter. I use Tweetie and have bookmarked a search on that. Here are a few sites from my GReader http://www.bestinclass.dk/blog.html http://nakkaya.com/ http://freegeek.in/blog/ https://groups.google.com/group/clojure And here are a few tabs that I currently have open (Maybe this weekend I will get to them :D) https://github.com/dbushenko/ClojureBlog http://skills…
Comment linking /blog/2011/ring_introduction
on “Why I read Hacker News even though I understand very little of it”Submitted A Brief Overview of the Clojure Web Stack as a story · 93 points
HN discussionI think it would be a bit too meta (and work in progress) to start with. Check out this article for standard Clojure (A Brief Overview of the Clojure Web Stack): http://brehaut.net/blog/2011/ring_introduction
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on “ClojureScript”Submitted "On iteration": Why people leave Python as a story · 59 points
HN discussionIf you're referring to core.async specifically, keep in mind it's very new. Its readme[1] goes as far as to say, "This library is work-in-progress, experimental, broken etc. It should only be used by people working on it, ATM." With more maturity will surely come more examples and tutorials. But if you mean Clojure(Script) in general, I kind of agree. There are some beginner friendly tutorials; lately Andrew Brehaut…
Comment linking /blog/2011/ring_introduction
on “Communicating Sequential Processes”Submitted From Python to Clojure as a story · 58 points
HN discussionThis is probably the best overview out there: http://brehaut.net/blog/2011/ring_introduction , though it doesn't mention the new kid on the block, Noir ( http://www.webnoir.org/ )
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on “Clojure Programming”Submitted Duck Wrapping as a story · 45 points
HN discussionRecently posted in HN, the Clojure web stack: http://brehaut.net/blog/2011/ring_introduction
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on “Code Quarterly's Interview with Rich Hickey”Submitted Impedance mismatch with CouchDB as a story · 27 points
HN discussionThis article is the motherlode: http://brehaut.net/blog/2011/ring_introduction
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on “Clojure's Webframework "Noir" hits 1.2.0”Submitted "Welcome to the Machine": State monads in Clojure as a story · 27 points
HN discussionThe obvious reason for no Object/Relational Mappers in Clojure is that while Clojure has objects available, it doesn't orient around them. It makes much more sense to treat a set of records from the DB as a sequence of maps. For DBs and Clojure in general I can only speak about CouchDB via Clutch and SQL via ClojureQL and clojure.contrib.SQL. I don't want to claim to be an expert in either of these technologies, but…
Comment linking /blog/2010/couch_impedance
on “A Brief Overview of the Clojure Web Stack”Submitted Parsing in Clojure via a Backtracking State Monad as a story · 16 points
HN discussionSomething like this: http://brehaut.net/blog/2011/ring_introduction ?
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on “Clack: Common Lisp Web Application Env (ala WSGI, Rack, Plack, Ring, WSAPI, etc)”Submitted Static types are great, but I don't use them in practice as a story · 12 points
HN discussionall of this sounds fine and dandy, but is http://brehaut.net web scale?
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on “Ask HN: Whats the best way to start web development on lisp?”Submitted CoffeeScript comprehensions are broken as a story · 11 points
HN discussionI recently rebuilt my site[1] in Clojure. Ring at the bottom layer (basically a given). Beyond that I'm using Moustache[2] for routing, Enlive[3] for templating and Clutch[3] to talk to CouchDB. I had previously tried with Compojure and Hiccup. The hardest parts were learning enlive and moustache. Enlive is incredibly powerful and very clever, but can be a bit overwhelming for clojure noobs. You definitely want to c…
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on “Ask HN: Whats the best way to start web development on lisp?”Submitted The Clojure Web Stack and the CRUD Stack as a story · 6 points
HN discussionThe source of that quote is a nice read: http://brehaut.net/blog/2010/on_iteration
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on “Itertools - Iterator functions for efficient looping”Submitted An Error Monad in Clojure as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSubmitted Start Parsing in Clojure: fnparse as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted On the usefulness of Monads in Clojure as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted A TypeScript & Alt JS Grab Bag as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Templates are Functions as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Brehaut.net: Simple L-System Generation as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Unions as Functions as a story · 1 points
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