defn

defn

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

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defn

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Technology

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Latest episode

Mar 22, 2026

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Episodes

#33 - Pierre-Yves Ritschard aka @pyr Video 18.03.2018

We talk with Pierre-Yves about how he uses Clojure in the Cloud and why he and his co-founders are betting the business on it. Vijay also wants to submit to bit-masking. Yeah, so be sure to listen to the end. More information and links are posted on the website http://defn.audio

#32 - Conrad Barski aka @lisperati Video 25.02.2018

Conrad speaks clearly about his love of LISP and how that evolved into Clojure. His projects have been inspired by teaching and remaining true to the spirit of LISPs as a toolkit for building languages and now we see that being brought to the blockchain. It never grows old ! More information at the web site https://defn.audio

# 31 - Bruce Figgy Hauman aka @bhauman Video 10.02.2018

Oh man, so nice to speak with Bruce. He is such a great programmer and has inspired the whole Clojure community with his amazing tools. It's a long episode, as it should be.

# 30 - Zach Tellman aka @ztellman Video 27.01.2018

The towering intellect of Mr Tellman is manifold. Bit of a #Clojure joke there. This is a LOOOONG high density episode so strap in. Also, take your time. Breath. And enjoy! Go over to the web site for information and links https://defn.audio

#29.b - Zach "It's Aliiiive" Oakes Video 01.01.2018

Our theory was that one day, with enough swearing, we could reach a zen like understanding with our guests. Here's the proof. Watch the heck out 2018.

#29 - Zach "The Mighty" Oakes Video 24.12.2017

Hold on to your Explicit Tags cowboys as we take this wild ride into the dynamic world of Clojure's own Bob Ross aka Mr Zach Oakes. There is a special surprise at the end for those who can take the pace ! A very, very proud Happy Clojuremas to one and all.

#28 - Max Penet aka @mpenet Video 17.12.2017

An entertaining episode with the Max Penet who has made his own keyboards as well as some popular Clojure libraries for noSQL databases. [ We know the track is slightly crackly but we think the content is good so we hope that it's good enough for the non-audiopholes out there ]

#27 with Daniel Compton aka @danielwithmusic Video 26.11.2017

Daniel speaks to us from a room of ethereal light and inspiration. As well as being as an expert on New Zealand geography, he is a stalwart of the Clojure community working on flashy GUIs and essential infrastructure projects. More show notes at https://defn.audio

#26 with David Nolen aka @swannodette Video 13.11.2017

We talk with David about the mind blowing possibilities that have emerged with ClojureScript over the past few years and how it is set to rocket into the future. Please check the web site for more detailed show notes https://defn.audio If you wish to support the show you can use Patreon https://www.patreon.com/defn

#24.JOY.EC2017 Bonus Episode - The Joy of EuroClojure aka @iamjoyclark Video 26.09.2017

Where we talk with The Joy [ Clarke ] of EuroClojure Joy gave a talk at EuroClojure about keeping security simple https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lRHPZXKQVLk&index=8&list=PLZdCLR02grLpzt6WENiHe16-vx74VbCw_ Security makes us all feel vulnerable and we had a safe space in Berlin. As usual we bang on about frameworks and libs. Joy gives Emacs one finger (rather than all 10) and uses NightCoder. Check...

#25 - Fulcro and co with Tony Kay @fulcrologic Video 22.09.2017

Where we talk about mould, scala and then the good stuff Fulcro is an opinionated take on om.next that will save you tons of work Tony is a true gent

#24 Enter the Dragan with @draganrocks Video 21.07.2017

Where we learn all about the expressive power of Clojure running at the speed of raw machine code on CPUs and GPUs.

#23 The Right Honourable Stuart Halloway Video 19.06.2017

Wherein we discuss a sweeping array of topics - the history of Cognitect - the story of Spec - past and future of Datomic - maybe Clojure isn't quite dead yet Phew! Thanks very much to Stu for giving his time to us and the community and for his openness to both ours and community questions

#22 - Yehonathan Sharvit aka @viebel on Klipse Video 27.05.2017

Yehonathan is the author of Klipse - the live content browser plugin More details at https://defn.audio

#21 - James Reeves aka @weavejester Video 11.05.2017

Wow - we speak with @weavejester himself. This was a fun episode for us and there are some true gems from the library master himself, Mr James Reeves. More details and links over the web site: http://defn.audio Please tweet or retweet the defn Twitter account if you enjoy: https://twitter.com/defnpodcast Thanks :)

#20 - Eric Normand Video 11.04.2017

Eric imparts his smooth, smooth tones and worldly wisdom to the Defn podcast crew. See the full show notes over at https://defn.audio

#19 - Carin Meier Video 26.03.2017

Where we meet Carin and and, when we can get a break from laughing, discuss chickens and the weather. A little bit on Pascal, oh and Clojure too! Show notes at https://defn.audio

#18 - Gijs Stuurman Video 19.02.2017

Where we meet Gijs and and, among other things, discuss his latest Clojure project: CREPL Show notes are at https://defn.audio

#17 - Village Idiots Video 19.01.2017

One for the vi lovers ;-) **Credits** Music Thanks to youthful exuberance of PTZERY for the intro / outro music The track name, chiming with our show theme, is Melon Hamburger https://soundcloud.com/ptzery/melon-hamburger. Listen to more of his work via his SoundCloud https://soundcloud.com/ptzery Design Thanks to the fabulous freelance designer, Lubov Soltan for the logo Follow her on Twitter @mo...

#16 - Malcolm Sparks Video 15.12.2016

- Before Clojure ... journey to enlightenment - JUXT ... what it is and how it's going - Yada - defn community questions for Malcolm More details and links on the defn web site https://defn.audio/2016/12/15/episode-16-malcolm-sparks/

#15 EuroClojure 2016 Interviews (Part 2 of 2) Video 11.12.2016

At EuroClojure 2016, we had the pleasure of talking with these fine folks: Malcolm "Yada" Sparks Dragan "The GPU Tamer" Djuric David "The CLojureScript Guy" Nolen

#14 - Euroclojure 2016 Interviews (Part 1) Video 07.12.2016

At EuroClojure 2016, we had the pleasure of talking with these fine folks: Colin "The Cursive" Fleming Jon "The JUXT" Pither Srihari "The Carnatic" Sriraman Carin "The Healer" Meier

#13 - Arne Brasseur: Clojure Bridge and Lambda Island Video 18.11.2016

Discussion points * Chestnut * Clojure Bridge * Lambda Island * Clojure Script - reframe More show notes and links at the web site https://defn.audio/

#12 - EuroClojure Preview Video 20.10.2016

We talk about the talks in a meta-tastic preview of the upcoming EuroClojure conference in Bratislava, Slovakia More notes at http://defn.audio

#11 - Alex Miller Video 06.10.2016

We interview the famously energetic and prolific ambassador for Clojure, Mr Alex Miller Please check the web site for the show notes: https://defn.audio

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