Feb 14 · 16 min read · title: "Python to Clojure: A Gentle Guide for Pythonistas" published: true description: "A comprehensive comparison of Python and Clojure, walking through every topic in the official Python tutorial and showing how Clojure approaches the same problem...
Join discussionFeb 14 · 19 min read · title: "Python to Basilisp: Clojure's Brain in Python's Body" published: true description: "A comprehensive comparison of Python and Basilisp — the Clojure dialect that compiles to Python bytecode. Immutable data structures, macros, and the entire Py...
Join discussionDec 30, 2025 · 5 min read · You're working with a collection in Clojure and need to iterate over it. You reach for... wait, which one? for map doseq run! In my experience, while the official documentation exists, it's often unclear when to use each construct. This guide b...
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Nov 6, 2025 · 1 min read · Imagine you have rows of letters, numbers, and Greek letters: [[:a :b :c] [:1 :2 :3] [:alpha :beta :gamma]] Now, imagine you want to transpose them: (mapv vector [:a :b :c] [:1 :2 :3] [:alpha :beta :gamma]) ;;=> [[:a :1 :alpha] ;; [:b :2 :beta]...
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Nov 4, 2025 · 2 min read · I decided to implement linear search before going after binary search. Now, I’m ready! With linear search, we required the elements be sorted. We didn’t require the elements be bounded. In binary search, the inputs must be bounded because we maintain...
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Nov 2, 2025 · 3 min read · I consider myself a classically trained computer scientist. However, I don’t regularly practice implementing algorithms at home. I hope to do more of that! At work, I do much higher level things, like partnering with a product manager, establishing a...
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Oct 9, 2025 · 1 min read · + In Clojure core there’s a handy function, +. I’ll bet you know what it does: (+ 1 2 3) ;;=> 6 Let’s introduce a handy function as we explore: (defn value-and-type [& args] (map (juxt identity type) args)) Let’s look at the largest supported L...
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Oct 7, 2025 · 2 min read · Computers do math really quickly. Yet, computers struggle with all kinds of things with math. Take, for example, the simple fraction: 2/3. This should be easy to store right? In most languages, it isn’t. We’re going to use 2/3 throughout all our exam...
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Sep 18, 2025 · 2 min read · I was doing a little Clojure programming and my son asked me if the computer could make it go 1 2 3, 2 3 4, 3 4 5, … I thought, hmm, that’s a sliding window. Here was my first thought: (->> (range 1 4) (map (fn [x] [x (inc x) (inc (inc x))])))...
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