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Daniel Higginbotham
Personal blog · flyingmachinestudios.com · on HN as nonrecursiveprogrammingmath
Daniel Higginbotham writes Flying Machine Studios, a personal blog at flyingmachinestudios.com about programming and math. Since 2008, 33 different Hacker News readers have linked it 88 times, most often “The Unofficial Guide to Rich Hickey's Brain”. The last post was in 2019, but the archive is still widely read.
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Why HN links it
Daniel Higginbotham's blog is linked for its Clojure and Datomic writing, including a guide to Rich Hickey's design thinking, explanations of Datomic, and posts on learning to program. Commenters call the posts informative and interesting.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 7 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Adventures in making stuff with Daniel Higginbotham
Most-linked posts?
- The Unofficial Guide to Rich Hickey's Brain7 people · 7 mentions · first linked 2012-12-07
- Datomic for Five Year Olds5 people · 6 mentions · first linked 2013-02-23
- Techniques for learning programming languages efficiently5 people · 6 mentions · first linked 2017-04-16
- Frameworks and Why (Clojure) Programmers Need Them4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2019-08-13
- How Clojure Babies Are Made: Compiling and Running a Java Program3 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2013-03-14
- Timeless Programming Tools (2016)3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2016-03-25
- How Clojure Babies are Made: Leiningen's Trampoline2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2013-03-26
- Why Clojure's a Great Next Language for Rubyists2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2015-11-13
- Show HN: My first Mac app, Foreman, free and on Github. Would love feedback2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2012-09-07
What Hacker News says?
The Unofficial Guide to Rich Hickey's Brain http://www.flyingmachinestudios.com/programming/the-unoffici...
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on “Getting Started With Clojure”Submitted Show HN: My first Mac app, Foreman, free and on Github. Would love feedback as a story · 153 points
HN discussionFor anyone interested in background on Datomic, these are fun and informative resources. The talk where I realized Rich is a data head too. Introducing his design goals and life experiences with db(s). https://www.infoq.com/presentations/The-Design-of-Datomic "Clojure for the Brave and True" author, Dan Higginbotham, on key themes and overview. http://www.flyingmachinestudios.com/programming/datomic-for-... Congrats…
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on “Datomic Cloud”Submitted Detailed Breakdown of a Clojure Web App as a story · 83 points
HN discussionOh jesus, my site got submitted and is #1 on HN again. It kind of amazes me that a guide that begins with a Thich Nhat Hanh (buddhist monk) quote can bring out such heated debate. A few things to clarify: * The before/after flyers were taken from real life. These were printed out and tacked up to community boards and the like. * One reason why I think the right poster is better is that it looks nicer on the surface…
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on “Clean Up Your Mess – A Guide to Visual Design for Everyone (2011)”Submitted The Unofficial Guide to Rich Hickey's Brain as a story · 82 points
HN discussionI plan on adding that to the book. In the mean time, I have a series on Java for Clojurists: http://www.flyingmachinestudios.com/programming/how-clojure-...
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on “A Clojure Crash Course”Submitted Timeless Programming Tools as a story · 52 points
HN discussionThere was a interesting and relevant post about this recently from a pretty established clojurist: http://flyingmachinestudios.com/programming/why-programmers-...
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on “Why I like Clojure”Submitted A Taste of the λ Calculus as a story · 15 points
HN discussion> repulsed by the idea of using a framework I think this is one of the memes in the community which is starting to be reconsidered. You're not alone in seeing these downsides, and people are starting to write about it more (code and words). Things like Fulcro or even Datomic Cloud are very interesting developments in this regard. [1]: https://jacobobryant.com/post/2019/grow/ [2]: http://flyingmachinestudios.com/prog…
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on “Why I like Clojure”Submitted Building a Forum with Clojure, Datomic, Angular, and Ansible as a story · 14 points
HN discussionI plan on creating more content :) I wrote a blog post with a couple more details ( http://www.flyingmachinestudios.com/programming/brave-and-ne... , fourth paragraph). But yes, I want to cover testing, web development, and more. Right now I'm working on an in-depth explanation of reducers. edit: also, clojure applied is a good book for what you're talking about
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on “Show HN: Clojure for the Brave and True – now free online”Submitted Datomic for Five Year Olds as a story · 13 points
HN discussionTectonic, I was an RoR freelancer for 2 years. Here are sites where I've found jobs: http://jobs.rubynow.com http://jobs.37signals.com http://bostonrb.org/jobs If you also just google "rails jobs" you'll find the other useful rails job sites out there. The best way to find work, however, is to build your network. One of the best clients I had was referred to me by a fellow I happened to have lunch with when I was in…
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on “Ask HN: Who's Hiring?”Submitted Refactoring to Datamappers in Clojure as a story · 10 points
HN discussionGenerally speaking, five year olds should not be choosing databases for anything critical. But I agree that Datomic and company can do better with their marketing and general product description. Here is one of the better explanations I have seen: http://www.flyingmachinestudios.com/programming/datomic-for-...
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on “Datomic Pro Starter Edition”Submitted Frameworks and Why (Clojure) Programmers Need Them as a story · 7 points
HN discussionMaybe you don't even need individual user accounts - today I noticed this app to start (and close) different groups of applications. While I don't need it, this may be an alternative to your multiple account approach: http://www.flyingmachinestudios.com/foreman/
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on “Stop Procrastinating by “Clearing to Neutral””Submitted Timeless Programming Tools (2016) as a story · 6 points
HN discussionalso worth checking out is http://logoworks.com/ . They're more expensive (logo packages start at $300) but still cheap. They did my logo for http://www.flyingmachinestudios.com . I think Guy Kawasaki also has used and recommended them.
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on “99designs Launches $99 Logo Store”Submitted Frameworks and Why (Clojure) Programmers Need Them as a story · 6 points
HN discussionI really believe that expressing gratitude every day has a positive effect, so much so that I made a clojure-based site, http://gratefulplace.com/ (and wrote about the code at http://www.flyingmachinestudios.com/programming/dissecting-g... ). For the past year I've spent a few minutes every morning thinking about what I'm grateful for and it's had a big positive influence on my life. I'm definitely happier.
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on “What should you do every day to improve your life?”Submitted My Failed(?) Social Web Experiment Still Haunts Me as a story · 6 points
HN discussionIt's not on github, but I have some build notes at http://www.flyingmachinestudios.com/penguins/job-search-sani... :)
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on “Show HN: Job Search Sanity”Submitted Show HN: A Starting Point for Great Documentation as a story · 6 points
HN discussionI just posted another technique for DRYing up variable initialization in rails controllers: http://www.flyingmachinestudios.com/2008/09/06/dry-up-contro... The method I used doesn't let you use method names instead of instance variables, but then again I think it's actually better to use instance variables. In my code I mostly use instance variables for active record objects, whereas I use methods galore. The little…
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on “A Fresh Take on Rails Controllers and Views”Submitted Why I Don't Want to Start a Startup as a story · 6 points
HN discussionI would love any feedback! This is the Clojure site which I wrote about here: http://www.flyingmachinestudios.com/programming/dissecting-g... The code is on github here: https://github.com/flyingmachine/gratefulplace
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on “Show HN: I wanted to use my skills to lift up others, this is the result”Submitted Learning Programming Languages Efficiently as a story · 5 points
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