Introduce yourself!

Hi!

I’m Orestis, I’m Greek, currently living in Luxembourg.

I only began learning Clojure and the ecosystem a couple of weeks ago, I still haven’t watched all the Rich Hickey talks :slight_smile:

I’m working on museum interactives and all the supporting infrastructure, and I came by ClojureScript in my search for an alternative to Javascript with a good standard library and an engineering mindset. So far the signs are very very promising :slight_smile:

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I’m Sean, I’m from Southern California.

I use clojure for hobby projects that might hopefully turn into money generating ones sooner rather than later. I’m very focused on a sort of rails-like full stack framework in clojure to get my projects off the ground very quickly, which means very little js, absolutely no react or clojurescript and lots of server side rendering, similar to a default luminus stack.

I like cold brew coffee :slight_smile:

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Hi, I’m Martin :wave:

I live in Berlin. For a long time I never considered Clojure because of all the parenthesis :see_no_evil:. Really happy we settled on it as our main language for Nextjournal last year after starting out with Elm and Elixir. Being able to share code between the frontend and backend is just so nice.

Besides Nextjournal, I also work on Sauspiel, a community for Schafkopf, a traditional card game from Bavaria in Germany. We rewrote our buggy Java game server in Erlang quite a while back and have enjoyed functional programming since.

Also must say I’m grateful how friendly and welcoming everyone I’ve met from the Berlin Clojure community is :heart:. I hope efforts like this help more people getting started with Clojure, thanks @plexus! :pray:

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Hey everyone! I started getting into clojure after I was convinced that map would actually work like it said in the docs. My first lisp experience was not a fun one, and it put me off from all the weird parenthesis. (Dug a little into common lisp in school, found mapcar confusing, and fled back to java for a good long while.)

A friend suggested I give it another shot – now armed with paredit, I quickly got to enjoying Clojure’s development experience, with figwheel, and cider. Got started with the Chestnut template, which was lovely to begin with, and after a few feature request PRs, found myself as a pretty consistent contributor.

I also prefer tea, as I’m not much of a coffee drinker myself.

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Hi,
Clojure newbie here. I’ve been a hobbyist coder for years off and on and recent became interested in Lisp in general though I’m putting most my effort at the moment into Clojure.

I’ve noticed a few others deal with the struggle as well. I too battle an addiction with the drug caffeine.

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I’m seancorfield pretty much everywhere and I’m really Sean Corfield :slight_smile: I’m a former Brit, now American, and live in the San Francisco Bay Area (in the East Bay, for folks familiar with the local geography).

I first encountered Clojure back in 2010, as part of my goal to “learn a new language every year”. Amit Rathore (“Clojure in Action”) was running a Saturday introductory workshop and I figure it was worth a few hundred dollars to learn from a master. I was totally hooked immediately!

I managed to sneak it into work for a small project and we went to production on Clojure 1.3 Alpha 7 or 8 in 2011. We’re currently on 1.9 Beta 4 in production (for most stuff, we just deployed RC 1 for a couple of our apps today). It became our primary language for all server-side work a year or two ago, and we now have about 50,000 lines of production Clojure and 15,000 lines of Clojure tests. “We” are an Internet dating platform – over 100 dating sites in over a dozen languages.

I ran the San Francisco Clojure Meetup for a few years. I co-founded ClojureBridge. I’m part of the “admin” team on the Clojurians Slack. I maintain a number of popular Clojure libraries (including org.clojure/java.jdbc, org.clojure/tools.cli, expectations, clj-time, congomongo). I use Boot and Atom/ProtoREPL for all my work (and I’ve published a few Boot tasks, including boot-new, boot-expectations, boot-kotlinc – hey, I’m learning Kotlin, so of course I want a Boot task to compile and run my Kotlin code!).

I drink coffee (yes, the Brit drinks coffee and his American partner drinks tea – it causes a lot of confusion, both here and in England, when we visit!). I’m also rather partial to beer (real beer, not the mass-produced stuff) and red wine. Currently enjoying a seasonal Pumpkin Ale from a local brewpub! :slight_smile: :beers:

I love the Clojure community – and I love helping folks learn the joys of Clojure!

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Hi, I’m Roman :wave:

I live and work in Ukraine. Doing ClojureScript for the last 2 years. I’m coming from JavaScript world, mostly frontend, but also poking around with JVM Clojure these days. I’ve also created a couple of libraries for Rum, some of them are Citrus and CLJSS. At the moment I’m helping to grow Clojure community here, in Kyiv (I should say it goes pretty good so far :slightly_smiling_face:).

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Hi Everyone!

My name is Ertuğrul Çetin, I’m from Istanbul/Turkey, and I was working in Berlin(recently) then I moved back to my old town Istanbul again.

Also, I’m the creator of Clojurecademy, Clojurecademy is an interactive platform that provides Clojure based courses. I’ve been working with Clojure almost two years, and I’m very happy with that!:blush:

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Hi folks!

My name is Tom Hutchinson and I live in Perth, Australia.

I’ve been working as a software dev for about 2 years now but before that I was a high school English teacher. I miss the kids but don’t miss writing lesson plans / marking essays at 2am! :sweat_smile:

I do mostly browser based UI stuff at work (networked asset mapping/monitoring software) in JS/Typescript but I’ve begun infecting my team with the Clojure(script) bug :rofl:

I’ve (half) built some things in clojurescript, a Tzolk’in (boardgame) engine and teacher’s assistant app. Hope to finish one of them someday…

These days I spend all the time that I can spare researching/writing Ethereum smart contracts / user interfaces. I’m working on a decentralised trading card game :slight_smile:

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Hi! I’m Michiel from The Netherlands. I live in Amersfoort which is 35 minutes by train from Amsterdam.

The first course in programming at my university was taught in Miranda (a predecessor of Haskell). My first encounter with Lisp was Common Lisp at the end of my masters degree. Clojure combines the best of both worlds and when I discovered it at the end of 2009 it made perfect sense.

I taught Clojure two years in a row to a couple of classes when I was a lecturer (link to course in Dutch). After that I decided to take a job which involved a good deal of Clojure programming and have been using it ever since.

Caffeine withdrawal is real…

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Hi,

My name is Dmitri, and I live in Canada. I work at a hospital, and I introduced my team to Clojure around 7 years go. We’re now using Clojure/Script for all our projects.

I maintain Luminus micro-framework. My latest project is Macchiato, which is an attempt to bring Ring style ecosystem to Node.js.

I’m a fan of both coffee and tea. :slight_smile:

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Hello!

My name is Burhan. I’m from Malaysia.

I’ve known Clojure for 2 years. I started looking for different programming languages when I felt something was missing when I code in Java. I remember the last time I didn’t even give a chance to Clojure because of the parens. Went through Scala didn’t understand anything, Go, C++, Groovy and finally I said whatever and just went with Clojure and it blew my mind. I started to explore Lisp after that, went through Practical Common Lisp, SICP. Fun times.

I use Clojure for hobby and Java/JavaScript at work and recently I had to introduced ClojureScript to the company because of one project with ridiculous dateline. Everyone was skeptical at first until the demo last week. Everything went so smooth.

Other than my hobby projects, I also contributed to the translations for my native language in learnxinyminutes.com for Clojure.

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Hi all!

Nicolai here, started Clojure in Februray.
If somebody has a nice project to contribute to or to get it started im looking foward.
Im living in Germany, Münsterland NRW. Are there meetups in this area i missed?

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Hi!

My name is Dan Jolicoeur and I’ve been working with Clojure professionally for the past 5+ years, Clojurescript off and on for about 4, and Datomic for 4 years. I’m djjolicoeur on github, clojurians slack, twitter, and just about everywhere else. I live in Annapolis, MD and work for ICX Media, Inc. In Washington, DC where we work mostly with Clojure and Datomic.

In my free time I enjoy working on my hobby project datamaps, which deconstructs maps into a set of three-tuple’s and an interface for querying those facts with datalog via datascript’s query engine.

Love the idea of the Clojureverse and can’t wait to see where it goes!

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Hi,

I’m been following the Clojure universe for some time now but still just a hobbyist because at work we user mainly Ruby but I’m hoping to get some Clojure in there soon.
My Journey started when David Nolen posted about Om and how that made React faster, and ClojureScript got me into Clojure and Datomic.

For me, a homemade black coffee made with my Presso is the best. I do drink om tea in the evenings though.

Hoping the we all make this place a great place for Clojurists to hang out!

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Hello,

I’m Jeremy from France (close to Bordeaux).
I discovered clojurescript coming from scala and looking for FP lang to do front end apps.
I now use clojure, clojurescript and some react js for all my projects and work.

I’m a former pro video game player (csgo) so I try to make/find projects that mix those 2 passions. The latest being a web editor to design and manage live dynamic overlays for live streams (mainly Twitch) that is starting to be used by some tournament organisers !

I struggle finding nice project or early startups to join so that might be a good place to finally find something.

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I’m Nick Mudge. For years I have wanted to use Clojure in my work and I recently found a way to do this.

I am in Folsom California and am using Clojure in my business.

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就没有说中文的吗?
哈哈哈~
请自行机器翻译…

各位大佬,我来了…

Hello,I’m coming…
I’m brain… black rain , from Canton ,China…
I use clojure for BI.
I like beer ,and Qingdao is good .
Is there anyone wanna a cup?

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Hi I’m Jerry. I’m originally from Iowa, but have been in the Phoenix, Arizona area for past 17 years. I’m new to clojure, with most of my time being spent on c and the linux kernel for work. No coffee for me, but I seem to go through a lot of diet coke.

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Hi, I’m Etienne Spillemaeker, chpill for short.

I’m a Web developer based in Paris, and I’ve been working with Clojurescript for 7 months now. Before that I was doing Javascript (while playing with Clojure/Clojurescript as hobby).

You’ll probably see me with a coffee during office hours, but I’m definitely more of a beer guy. @brain If we ever find ourselves in the same location, let’s have that cup :beers:

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