defn

defn

The world's greatest vegetarian Clojure podcast. Support us on https://patreon.com/defn  Hosted by Josh Glover and Ray McDermott

Author

defn

Category

Technology

Podcast website

zencastr.com

Latest episode

Mar 22, 2026

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Episodes

#83 Tim Zöller aka The Java Hippie Video 24.04.2022

We got Tim to talk about Dogs, Cheese and his journey into Clojure and test containers project and his startup! Check his website: https://javahippie.net

#82 - Ben Sless Video 04.04.2022

Ben Sless joined author of clj-fast (https://github.com/bsless/clj-fast/) us to tell the one weird trick to make your Clojure code blazing fast! Check Ben's work in: https://bsless.github.io

#81 - Lojban edition with Joshua Suskalo Video 20.01.2022

We had fantastic chat with Joshua learning a thing or two about coffi the clojure FFI and farolero that is bringing Common LISP conditionals to to clojure. As far as we know, this is the first Clojure podcast to have Lojban in it! We would love it if you can join us for first ever defn call in show live with Joshua on 13th February 20:00 CET on our discord https://discord.gg/dDWd75xC

#80 - Vedang Video 28.12.2021

We have another awesome Clojurian Vedang from Incredible India, we talk about Indian food, culture and working at one of the first Clojure startups in India Helpshift.

#79 - Eric Dallo Video 21.12.2021

We are delighted to have Eric as our guest talking about all the amazing work he has been doing on Clojure LSP and converting people to Emacs. Check him out on https://github.com/ericdallo and support him on Patreon https://www.patreon.com/ericdallo

#78 Adrian Smith a.k.a phronmophobic Video 16.11.2021

Our guest this time is Adrian Smith aka phronmophobic inventing better ways to build UIs with https://github.com/phronmophobic/membrane Bonus: Rambles about brambles

#77 - Michelle Lim Video 19.10.2021

We talk to Michelle about her multi-major studies and Clojure(Script) and more! Yet another defn first - A crossover episode with a cameo!! Checkout Michelle's work on https://github.com/eemshi and http://mmmanyfold.com/

#76 - The Desi Episode with Kartik Gupta and HariOm Gaur Video 16.09.2021

defn has turned Desi with 2 Indian Clojurists! Kartik and HariOm join us to talk about Indian food and spiced up our discussion with Clojure and Ziggurat (https://github.com/gojek/ziggurat) and more!

#75 - Philippa Markovics Video 10.08.2021

#75 - Philippa Markovics by defn

#74 - Will Acton and the greatest Clojure podcast Crossover! Video 20.07.2021

Will Acton joins the "mobcast" to talk about Martial arts, Punk Music and a bit about his Clojure projects hx and Helix! We are honoured to have @lambduhhh (https://linktr.ee/lambduhhh) as a guest-host in the greatest Clojure podcast crossover!

#73 - Paula Gearon Video 15.06.2021

In this epi(c)sode we had a blast chatting with Paula, graph database and Clojure expert, and creator Asami https://github.com/threatgrid/asami Check it out!

#72 Chris Badahdah from Phoenix! Video 07.06.2021

Chris takes us into his Clojure Portal and other Clojure adventures :) Check his awesome tool: https://djblue.github.io/portal/

#71 - The true and brave Daniel Higginbotham Video 05.05.2021

We talk to Daniel and try to settle the age old dispute between the Higginbotham clan and the Higginbotham clan. There is some #Clojure stuff in the episode too ;)

#70 - Yehonathan Sharvit Video 21.04.2021

The second coming of Yehonathan on defn, who brought us Klipse, in which he talks about what/why/how of data oriented programming and why Clojure is the best language for data oriented programming with a dash of christian theology.

#69 - Mike Fikes Video 04.04.2021

Episode 69 - we go back to our first ever guest, Mike Fikes, creator of ambly, replete and bringing Clojurescript to microcontrollers!

#68 - Michiel Borkent aka borkdude Video 28.03.2021

We got borkdude back on the show for an epi(c)sode ! Diving into all sorts of Clojure stuff!

#67 - Juan Monetta Video 28.02.2021

We talked to Juan about all Clojure stuff from Diagrams to Debugging! Check out .... https://github.com/jpmonettas?tab=repositories

#66 - Dominic Monroe Video 09.12.2020

We cover every Clojure topic from edge to wedge and more in episode 66 with Dominic Monroe who wants to have a word with you about TNS-45 Links of interest: https://dominic.io https://juxt.land/edge/ https://sr.ht/~severeoverfl0w/wedge/sources https://clojure.atlassian.net/browse/TNS-45

#65 Vlad Protsenko Video 11.11.2020

We talk to Vlad a designer turned developer and "reveal"ed a new REPL experience for Clojure! Check it out on https://vlaaad.github.io/reveal/

#64 - James Henderson - Crux Video 30.09.2020

#64 - James Henderson - Crux by defn

#63 - Bruce Durling Video 09.08.2020

We got a chance to talk to Clojure community veteran Bruce Durling( London Clojure Community, ClojureBridge, ClojureX and more)about his Clojure Journey and more :)

#62 - Mia Video 07.07.2020

We had super fun talking to Mia - "rock" star Clojure Developer and co-host of apropos! Enjoy!

#61 - Daniel Szmulewicz Video 27.05.2020

We talk to Daniel Szmulewicz about Programming languages, Writing, meyvn and of course Clojure!

#60 4th Anniversary Episode - Return of David Nolen (aka @swannodette) Video 16.05.2020

David is back for our anniversary episode to chat about plenty of Clojure Script and projects - especially about https://github.com/vouch-opensource/krell Checkout https://github.com/swannodette and https://github.com/mfikes to sponsor David or Mike!

# 59 jr0cket in Space(macs) aka practicalli aka John Stevenson Video 03.05.2020

Checkout our latest episode - a fun and interesting conversation with one of the most prolific Clojure community contributor - John Stevenson! Check him out on http://practicalli.github.io/ and https://twitter.com/jr0cket

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