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A Love Letter to Flashcards | Lesley Lai
A personal reflection on how spaced repetition and hand crafted flashcards helps me to keep understanding alive
Practical: A Simple Database
Obviously, before you can start building real software in Lisp, you'll have to learn the language. But let's face it--you may be thinking, "'Practical Common Lisp,' isn't that an oxymoron? Why should you be expected to bother learning all the details of a language unless it's actually good for something you care about?" So I'll start by giving you a small example of what you can do with Common Lisp. In this chapter you'll write a simple database for keeping track of CDs. You'll use similar techniques in Chapter 27 when you build a database of MP3s for our streaming MP3 server. In fact, you could think of this as part of the MP3 software project--after all, in order to have a bunch of MP3s to listen to, it might be helpful to be able to keep track of which CDs you have and which ones you need to rip.
Lex make a registry - Sri's leaflets
Introducing lexicon.store - an unconventional ATProto Lexicon Registry
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Bringing Clojure programming to Enterprise
How a dialect of LISP can help developping modern enterprise applications
Reading Code Is Hard, and tips to improve - Trisha Gee
This week's video for Dave Farley's Continuous Delivery YouTube channel is me ranting about why reading code sucks, and offering some advice on how to improve. "Every programmer occasionally, when nobody’s home, turns off the lights, pours a glass of scotch, puts on some light German electronica, and opens up a file on their computer. ... Read more
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