Migrating to LazyTest
I've been using the Expectations
testing library since early 2019 -- over six years. I love the expressiveness of
it, compared to clojure.test
, and it exists because "Classic Expectations"
was not compatible with clojure.test
tooling. At work, our tests use a
mixture of clojure.test
and Expectations, but in my open source projects,
I've mostly stuck with clojure.test
for familiarity's sake for contributors.
Being compatible with clojure.test
comes at a price, though. Expectations
uses macros to produce clojure.test
-compatible code under the hood, so it
is limited by the same reporting as clojure.test
and the same potential
problems with tooling that tries to override parts of clojure.test
's
behavior -- namely that multiple tools do not play well together, so I've
had to avoid "improving" the expressiveness or reporting in ways that would
break compatibility with that tooling.
Clojure/conj 2024
After last year's regular posts about my Clojurists Together-funded work on clojure-doc.org and other projects, and the end of my monorepo/polylith series, I've mostly taken a break from blogging -- and from my open source work, to be honest. I've been focusing on my day job and on some personal stuff.
I attended Clojure/conj 2024 last month and wanted to write about the event and the talks I attended. It's been eleven years since Conj was last at the George Washington Masonic Memorial in Alexandria, and I'd forgotten what a climb it is, up that hill! My watch says I got over 9,000 steps each day going back and forth from the hotel to the venue.
Continue reading →Long-Term Funding, Update #6
In my previous Long-Term Funding update I said I would review and update of the "cookbooks" section and make another pass of "TBD" items in the "language" section.
Continue reading →Long-Term Funding, Update #5
In my previous Long-Term Funding update I said I would review/overhaul the "ecosystem" and "tutorials" sections (once I'd finished the "language" section).
Continue reading →Long-Term Funding, Update #4
In my previous Long-Term Funding update I said I would review/overhaul the "ecosystem" and "tutorials" sections.
Continue reading →deps.edn and monorepos XI (Polylith)
This is part of an ongoing series of blog posts about our ever-evolving use of the Clojure CLI,
deps.edn
, and Polylith, with our monorepo at
World Singles Networks.
Long-Term Funding, Update #3
In my previous Long-Term Funding update
I said I would review/overhaul the Libraries pages (both authoring and the directory)
and write the tools.build
cookbook.
The library authoring guide
has been rewritten to use the Clojure CLI, deps-new
, and deps-deploy
and
was well-received by the community, who provided some useful feedback that I
have also incorporated into the guide.
The information from the library directory has been integrated into
The Clojure Toolbox
via a couple of Pull Requests that
added optional tool-tip descriptions
and libraries that were on clojure-doc
but missing from the Toolbox. Thanks to James Reeves for accepting those PRs!
What else did I get done?
Continue reading →Long-Term Funding, Update #2
In my previous Long-Term Funding update I said that I planned "to review and/or overhaul the Getting Started, Introduction, and Web Development sections, with a focus on the latter." (of the clojure-doc.org website).
I mostly achieved that goal but didn't get to the additional goal I set of writing
a tools.build
cookbook. I have sketched out the topics I hope to cover in
that cookbook, however.
How did the past two months go?
Continue reading →Calva, Joyride, and Portal
Back in December, 2022, I described my original Calva, Joyride, and Portal setup.
I've been very happy with it all but, of course, I continue to tweak and update
my development environment and my projects, and now that
Clojure 1.12.0 Alpha 2 is available
with add-libs
-style functionality built-in, I've updated various projects
and my dot-clojure
and vscode-calva-setup
GitHub repos to take advantage of that, so I figured an updated version of that post
was warranted.
My development environment is VS Code, running on Windows, with all my Clojure-related files and processes running on WSL2 (Ubuntu). I use Calva, Portal, and Joyride to enhance and automate my day-to-day work.
Continue reading →Long-Term Funding, Update #1
As part of Clojurists Together's Long-Term Funding for 2023 I talked about working on clojure-doc.org which I had resurrected a few years ago, as a GitHub Pages project, powered by Cryogen.
Continue reading →