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An Architect's View
Personal blog · corfield.org/blogprogrammingcareer
An Architect's View is a personal blog at corfield.org about programming and career. Since 2009, 13 different Hacker News readers have linked it 19 times, most often “Chlorine: Clojure Integration for Atom”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-07, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (5) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Sean Corfield's blog covers Clojure and CFML, including real-world Clojure series, using spec for data validation, deps.edn monorepos, and the Polylith migration. Commenters cite it as examples.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 5 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Clojure, Software Design, Frameworks and more...
Most-linked posts?
- Chlorine: Clojure Integration for Atom2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2018-12-20
What Hacker News says?
What I find sad is people making judgements based on twelve year old information. Like most languages CFML has evolved. People writing CFML today use MVC frameworks, use ORM and the cloud. Yes it is still easy for beginners to write bad code, I think that may be more true in ColdFusion than in other languages. But getting started easily can also be a virtue. You might be surprised but a lot of the ColdFusion communi…
Comment linking /blog/post.cfm/learning-clojure
on “Why must you laugh at my back end?”Submitted Lambda Jam 2013 – An Architect's View as a story · 27 points
HN discussionSpec has numerous uses. We use it heavily in production for data validation/conformance: https://corfield.org/blog/2019/09/13/using-spec/
Comment linking /blog/2019/09/13/using-spec/
on “Clojure 1.11 planning”Submitted Clojure in the Enterprise? as a story · 8 points
HN discussionI'm a member of the team that created Polylith, so feel free to ask questions or give feedback. Polylith has been gaining momentum within the Clojure community. As an example, you can follow along with Sean Corfield's journey migrating the World Singles codebase to Polylith: https://corfield.org/blog/2021/02/23/deps-edn-monorepo/ There's an active Slack channel, with people and teams using Polylith on both commercia…
Comment linking /blog/2021/02/23/deps-edn-monorepo/
on “Polylith is a functional software architecture at the system scale”Submitted Clojure 1.10's Datafy and Nav: grokking it. as a story · 5 points
HN discussionOthers have pointed out that you need to understand sequences and other basic Clojure stuff first but perhaps my "real world Clojure" blog post series will give you a quick tour of the sort of things you're looking for? http://corfield.org/search/real+world+clojure
Comment linking /search/real+world+clojure
on “Clojure 2011 Year in Review”Submitted Chlorine: Clojure Integration for Atom as a story · 4 points
HN discussionI love Things for todo lists on the mac but I do not follow the GTD system. That being said, these people have had some success with using Things as a GTD tool: http://deadsilversky.blogspot.com/2009/01/gtd-with-things.ht... http://corfield.org/blog/index.cfm/do/blog.entry/entry/GTD__...
Comment linking /blog/index.cfm/do/blog.entry/entry/GTD__Getting_Things_Done
on “Ask HN: How you implement GTD in you personal life”Submitted Clojure/conj 2012 as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Chlorine: Clojure Integration for Atom as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Getting started with FW/1 in Clojure as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Real World Clojure - HTML email generation as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Scala's perception problem as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Polygot projects - choosing the right language for the task as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted deps.edn and Monorepos IX (Polylith) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Chlorine: Clojure Integration for Atom as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted An Architects View: On my radar as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted (summary :Clojure/West 2012) as a story · 1 points
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