My work
Open source
Sponsorships really help me dedicate time to the maintenance and support of my open source libraries. A big thanks to Clojurists Together, Nubank, and other sponsors!
Please see here if you’d also like to help (thank you!!) 🙏
Roadmap
- See news for completed work
- See my roadmap for upcoming work (please vote to help me know what to work on next!)
Libraries
Alphabetically:
| Library | Platform/s | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Carmine | Clj | Redis client + message queue for Clojure |
| Encore | Clj/s | Core utils library for Clojure/Script |
| Faraday [1] | Clj | Amazon DynamoDB client for Clojure |
| http-kit [2] | Clj | Simple, high-performance event-driven HTTP client+server for Clojure |
| Nippy | Clj | Fast serialization library for Clojure |
| Sente | Clj/s | Realtime web comms library for Clojure/Script |
| Telemere | Clj/s | Structured logs and telemetry for Clojure/Script (new) |
| Tempel | Clj | Data security framework for Clojure (new) |
| Tempura | Clj/s | Simple text localization library for Clojure/Script |
| Tengen | Cljs | Simple React component DSL for Clojure/Script |
| Timbre | Clj/s | Pure Clojure/Script logging library |
| Touchstone | Clj | Simple A/B testing library for Clojure |
| Tower | Clj/s | i18n & L10n library for Clojure/Script (EOL) |
| Trove | Clj/s | Modern logging facade for Clojure/Script (new) |
| Truss | Clj/s | Micro toolkit for Clojure/Script errors (new v2) |
| Tufte | Clj/s | Simple performance monitoring library for Clojure/Script (new v3) |
[1]: I authored the library, but am not currently involved with maintenance.
[2]: I did not author the library, but currently help with maintenance.
Videos, etc.
See my YouTube channel, or below for misc talks, interviews, demos, etc.:
| Description |
|---|
2024-10-31 - Demo: Telemere lightning intro (7 mins) |
2024-04-19 - Demo: Introducing
the Telemere structured telemetry library for
Clojure/Script (24 mins) |
2024-02-20 - Talk at London Clojurians:
Some Controversial Truths (96 mins) |
2024-02-07 - Demo: Introducing the Tempel data security library for Clojure (36
mins) |
2023-10-19 - Interview with Daniel Compton: discussed my
open source work and other projects (92 mins) |
2021-11-23 - Live coding demo
with Daniel Amber:
Writing a basic rate limiter for beginners |
2018-05-20 - Interview on Defn podcast #36: touched on Timbre, Carmine, Redis, Sente, Truss (106 mins) |
2016-01-12 - Demo: Introducing the Truss assertions micro-library for Clojure/Script (59
mins) |
Products
Something secret (in development for ~2025/26)
What could it be??
Groksocket (paused)
Groksocket is an idea I’ve sketched out to provide a dead-simple, turn-key monitoring solution for Clojure/Script applications.
Some of the client-side ideas ended up getting folded in to Telemere.
May still pursue this further in future.
Mindfund (paused)
Mindfund is an idea I’ve sketched out to help provide a new ethical form of funding for open source developers and other quality content creators.
Next step would be a basic prototype to test demand.
May still pursue this further in future.
Quivre (2019-today: in maintenance mode)
Available at: www.quiv.re.
Quivre is a free online tool to:
- Help couples communicate about sex, and
- Help folks on dating apps safely measure their sexual compatibility.
Built with Clojure/Script, and makes use of an unusual architecture that keeps all user data fully encrypted for privacy. The encryption model here would eventually form the basis of Tempel.
See here for community stats.
Wusoup (2008-today: in maintenance mode)
Available at: www.wusoup.com.
Wusoup is a web chat application that uses machine learning to help keep a clean community, and to match users with similar interests.
It was the first major Clojure/Script application that I wrote, and as far as I know might be the first large Clojure web application ever written (work started pre-dating both Ring and Clojure v1).
Has been in maintenance mode since ~2016, but to my surprise still seems to have an audience today.
Miacup (2007-2010: closed ~2022)
Available via Wayback Machine at: www.miacup.co.za.
Miacup was a brand of menstrual cup manufactured in my home country of South Africa, and the first pigmented (purple!) silicone menstrual cup.
I sold the company in 2010, and it seems like it went out of business sometime around 2022.
Other projects
Baget
A tinkering project, Baget is an experimental game engine and Clojure DSL for authoring highly interactive fiction. It’s at the proof-of-concept stage now, next step would be to actually author a demo game to properly exercise the tool.
Tangere
A very early experimental prototype of a possible open source library for rendering web UIs in ClojureScript. Originally inspired by Svelte, Tangere offers a Clojure/Script DSL that’s able to render and modify HTML in a way that’s dramatically simpler and faster than React and similar frameworks.
Intended as a possible replacement for Reagent in some of my own projects.