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

#10 - Spec.ial Video 21.09.2016

A discussion about spec For detailed information and links, see the show notes at https://defn.audio/2016/09/21/episode-10-spec-ial/

#9 - Onyx with Mike and Lucas Video 06.09.2016

Summary: A fun, loooong episode to discuss the awesome Onyx with Mike Drogalis and Lucas Bradstreet Show notes at https://defn.audio/2016/09/06/episode-9-onyx-with-mike-and-lucas/ Credits: Guests: Thanks to Mike and Lucas for the great conversation and all of the lovely software. Music: Thanks to the very talented ptzery for the permitting us to use his music on the opening and closing of the podc...

#8 - Discussion: scaling with Clojure Video 22.08.2016

News & Events https://juxt.pro/XT16.html - 6th October, 2016 Defn will be at Euroclojure - October 25/26 EuroClojure talks - David Nolen, Carin Meier etc. https://skillsmatter.com/conferences/7430-clojure-exchange-2016 Onyx got funding re-frame a new version Ambrose IndieGoGo : https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/typed-clojure-clojure-spec-auto-annotations#/ Main discussion - Clojure at Scale OOP h...

#7 - Datomic with Robert Stuttaford Video 10.08.2016

A roving tour of Datomic with the pioneering Mr Stuttaford. For detailed show notes please check the web site https://defn.audio/2016/08/10/episode-7-datomic-with-robert-stuttaford/

#6 - Concurrency and Parallelism Video 25.07.2016

A rambling discussion struggling to come to terms with concurrency and parallelism See the show notes at defn.audio https://defn.audio/2016/07/25/episode-6-concurrency-and-parallelism/

#5 - Hoplon Special with Micha Niskin Video 13.07.2016

*Follow up* We retain our status as the top vegetarian Clojure podcast. Phew. Maria Geller’s video - in which she did a great job of explaining how the CLJS compiler works and provides some interface to the contribution process: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Elg17s_nwDg *News* Euro Clojure - Bratislava tickets are on sale. Defn will be there *Main discussion - ClojureScript UI - Hoplon Special*...

#4 - Immutable Persistent Collections Video 27.06.2016

Overview of Persistent Collections - Intro | Follow-up | News - Discussion on community relations - Immutable Persistent Collections List vs Vector - Linked list vs tree implementation Map vs Set - Key can be anything - KV | Unique KV - Relational operations on set are outside of core Seq library - ISeq (first, rest, cons) - Interop with Java utterable - Functions are written to work against the S...

#3 - A tour of the REPLs with Mike Fikes Video 13.06.2016

This episode we welcome Mr Mike Fikes to help us on a tour of the Clojure REPLs

#2 - The Reader Video 30.05.2016

Defn Episode #02 - The Reader [ a little news: spec ] The wonders of the Reader - Compare to the C pre-processor - How it underpins the language - Reader forms - EDN / Transit - Tagged literals - Reader Conditionals (1.7+) - clojure.tools.reader - Finally, why no user defined reader macros (as in Common Lisp and Scheme)? References The Data-Reader's Guide to the Galaxy (Clojure West, 2013) by Stev...

#1 - Hello World Video 17.05.2016

Launch episode explaining our motivations for being Clojure and ClojureScipt enthusiasts.

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