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The Dutch Clojure meetup, face to face edition

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The Dutch Clojure meetup, face to face edition

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After a very, very long streak of online events, it's time to meet again face to face, meet new and familiar faces and chit-chat with like minded clojurians. For that to happen, we could not ask for a better host than adgoji (https://www.adgoji.com/) who hosted us countless times in the past years.

What's even better than meeting in person and talk clojure all nite long? Have a great speaker on stage to set the mood! We were lucky this time, and got to steal Michiel Borkent aka @borkdude from the world stage to give us a preview of his Conj talk.
------------------------- Our Agenda -------------------------

  • 18:00 πŸ• Welcome & pizza
  • 19:00 πŸ€“ Making tools developers actually use: talk rehearsal for Clojure Conj
  • 19:30 πŸ₯‚ Free lispy chatting (aka bring your own content)

------------------------- Our talk -------------------------
πŸ‘‰πŸΌ Making tools developers actually use: talk rehearsal for Clojure Conj

In 2019, I started two projects: clj-kondo and babashka. What began as experiments, a linter and a quirky "Clojure interpreter nobody asked for", are now mature tools used daily by thousands of Clojure developers. How does a tool go from "nobody asked for this" to "I can't work without it"? In this talk, I'll share the story behind these projects and what I discovered along the way: what makes a developer tool indispensable, how community feedback shaped the design, and the principles that turned scrappy fiddles into trusted productivity tools.

------------------------- Our speaker -------------------------
Michiel Borkent (https://www.michielborkent.nl/), known online as @borkdude, is a passionate open source Clojure developer. He's helping developers to write cleaner, faster, and more enjoyable code with popular tools like clj-kondo, babashka, SCI, nbb, and squint. When he's not deep in parentheses, you'll find him at the piano or enjoying a walk outdoors.

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