Ep 057: Clojure/Conj 2019 Recap

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This week, the topic is: "Clojure/Conj 2019 Recap" We go through our notes and recall the most memorable talks from the Conj last week.

Selected quotes:

• "Cold climate, warm people."
• "Learn skills that transfer."
• "The future is about immutability and composability."
• "YAML! YAML! YAML! The names of an episode we have not done, and probably will not do."
• "If you can make solving problems easier by using Clojure, then there is a lot of incentive to learn and use Clojure."
• "You can't get rid of bias, even when you know you have it. All you can do is change how you work."
• "The Conj has become less about Clojure and more about solving problems."

Talks:

• Defeating the Four Horsemen of the Coding Apocalypse - Mark Bastian
• Follow the Data: Product Development in Clojure - Derek Troy-West
  Application: Operatr
• Love Letter To Clojure: And A Datomic Experience Report - Gene Kim
  New book: The Unicorn Project
• Goodbye YAML: Infrastructure as Code in Clojure - Eno Compton & Tyler van Hensbergen
• Interactive Programming for Artificial Intelligence - Dragan Djuric
  Libraries: uncomplicate.org, Blog: dragan.rocks, Books: aiprobook.com
• Probabilistic Record Linkage of Hospital Patients - Chris Oakman
• Rapid Prototyping for Software Development - Sara Kimmich
• (Architecture) Diagrams as Data - Avi Flax
• The Hitchhikers Guide to Multiparadigm Programming - Ariel Ortiz
• A Racket Perspective on Research, Education, and Production - Matthew Flatt
  Site: racket-lang.org
• Composable Tools - Alex Miller
• Sherlock Holmes, Consulting Developer - Stuart Halloway