I needn't defend the usefulness of screenshotting. Sharing a photo, sharing code, sharing an error message, saving something for later, sending things you found on the internet, etc. For as many things as one could view on a screen, one could screenshot and share.\r \r So, we nee…

This is the part of this where I talk about some really boring stuff, but there are some features worth highlighting. Hiccup is the library I use for Lisp forms to HTML. The basics are super simple, and the forms look something like this:(html5 [:div.class#id {:attribute "code" :…

Ring: HTTP requests.EDIT: There are a million ways to handle HTTP routing in Clojure: Ring, bidi, pedestal, playnice, gudu, Route One (to name some I found on google) and there may be many more that I don't know. Some are closer to the Clojure idea of data above all, but I chose …

I learned about Common Lisp from a friend a while back, and being a math guy, thought it was certainly the coolest programming language I'd seen. I had taken a class in Haskell, so functional programming was already a big interest of mine. I played with Common Lisp a bit: I use s…