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Daniel Szmulewicz @danielsz.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Three minutes and half at the REPL. Playing with the youtube API to retrieve liked videos and displaying them in a mosaic in a browser. Not edited, Not narrated. Quite gratuitous. Probably not worth your time. #Clojure #REPL #Emacs #Lisp youtu.be/KVRRMeLqjyM

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Youtube API at the REPL

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Daniel Szmulewicz @danielsz.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Episode 9 of The Haikou Diaries! The Haikou Diaries is a project exploring Chinese life, particularly in and around Haikou. youtu.be/NBOjntO6Oyk This episode was brought to you by Caonima, the free Internet proxy.

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The Haikou Diaries: Episode 9

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Daniel Szmulewicz @danielsz.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Quick demo of #Bioscoop, or how I visualize color grading for The Haikou Diaries, a Youtube channel. #Emacs workflow + #Clojure + #FFmpeg. www.youtube.com/watch?v=xoFd...

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Bioscoop demo: split screen to visualize color grading

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Daniel Szmulewicz @danielsz.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Episode 8 of The Haikou Diaries just dropped. The Haikou Diaries is a project exploring Chinese life, particularly in and around Haikou. youtu.be/UKY7cd1I1sc This episode was brought to you by Caonima, the free Internet proxy.

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The Haikou Diaries: Episode 8

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Daniel Szmulewicz @danielsz.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

I am submitting a paper to a peer-reviewed journal. With Bioscoop, I am in a position to make certain claims and try to defend them as best as I can. I would love you to challenge me on those claims. The paper is available in the repo: github.com/danielsz/bio...

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Daniel Szmulewicz @danielsz.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Ramblings of an old-school hustler (a rare encounter in modern China). This one comes with English subtitles. The Haikou Diaries is a project depicting Chinese life, particularly in and around Haikou. This episode was brought to you by Caonima, the free Internet proxy. youtu.be/qKqNh89Yxag

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The Haikou Diaries: Episode 7

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Daniel Szmulewicz @danielsz.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Every once in a while, I check how far I can push a Clojure setup on the phone. It's a bit silly, I'll readily admit, but the point is that there used to be many hurdles and today we reached a point in the maturity of the various components involved such that none remain. #Clojure #Termux #Android

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Daniel Szmulewicz @danielsz.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Fun at the arcade! This is what awaits you in episode 6 of The Haikou Diaries. The Haikou Diaries is a project deconstructing the visual language of Chinese life, particularly in and around Haikou. This episode was brought to you by Caonima, the free Internet proxy. youtu.be/l-FCDdRtRes

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Daniel Szmulewicz @danielsz.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

Episode 5 of The Haikou Diaries has dropped. youtu.be/9LMmympc8Cc The Haikou Diaries is an artistic project exploring the visual grammar of life in and around Haikou. It consists of narrative vignettes inspired by slow cinema. This episode was made possible by Caonima, the Internet proxy.

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Daniel Szmulewicz @danielsz.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

Episode 4 of The Haikou Diaries, a project exploring the visual grammar of Chinese life. The Youtube channel consists of narrative vignettes inspired by slow cinema. Special thanks to Caonima. youtu.be/TaqDsIgTy-Q The Haikou Diaries: tuppu.net/c1dddd07 Caonima: tuppu.net/a488a726

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Daniel Szmulewicz @danielsz.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

Caonima 1.1.4 is out. Cross-platform proxy client built for censorship circumvention and net neutrality restoration. QUIC by default, TCP fallback, runs on Linux, Windows and macOS. Written in Clojure. tuppu.net/a488a726 #proxy #QUIC #netNeutrality #Clojure

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Daniel Szmulewicz @danielsz.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

Happy to be releasing a new version of Beeld. Beeld provides a uniform interface for working with images. The abstraction is powered by a Clojure protocol. This makes the library extensible. The present release hardens the implementation and comes with a test suite. Enjoy! tuppu.net/cf0775cf

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GitHub - danielsz/beeld: Get the metadata associated with an image. Also contains image utilities: filesize, scale, etc.

Get the metadata associated with an image. Also contains image utilities: filesize, scale, etc. - danielsz/beeld

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Daniel Szmulewicz @danielsz.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

Bioscoop is a DSL for creative coding. It's fun! Here is a Bioscoop program followed by its source code. More examples can be found in the gallery at github.com/danielsz/bio...

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Weavejester @weavejester.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/05/2025

#reclojure2025 was a resounding success, and thanks go out to everyone who pitched in! We should have the first videos out by next week on the London Clojurians YouTube channel (www.youtube.com/@LondonClojurians), and we'll stagger the release of the videos to about 2 every week.

A photograph of the audience from the reClojure 2025 conference in London

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gosha @gosha.net · 30/05/2025

Hi friends, I need your help. My contract just got caught in a round of layoffs, so I'm open for short/medium-term fullstack work: Clojure, Rails, React, etc. If you know anyone looking for a senior dev who can ship fast, I'd love to hear about it. My LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/goshatch Thank you! 🙏

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Daniel Szmulewicz @danielsz.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

A photograph is meant to be experienced rather than interpreted. Susan Sontag makes that arguments in a book called "Against Interpretation". I agree, but interpretation has its purpose, too. In some contexts, it is unavoidable. As long as you let someone else do the talking. ai.tuppu.net

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Daniel Szmulewicz @danielsz.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

Sean Tucker's new video Is your Photography any Good? is an excellent take on self-assessment, something that many aspiring photographers struggle with. His answer is structured by three words: intentionality, consistency and originality.

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Daniel Szmulewicz @danielsz.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

Photographers who approach Susan Sontag's On photography with the idea that it will teach them the art of photography are bound to be disappointed. Susan Sontag's On photography is not about photography at all, but rather about society and the ramifications of mechanical reproduction.

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Daniel Szmulewicz @danielsz.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

The specifics of the spring festival rituals in rural China may vary from village to village, and they are rarely documented. No wonder, thus, that LLMs cannot pinpoint their nature. Nevertheless, the critique offered by René picks up on the intrinsic qualities of the image. ai.tuppu.net

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Daniel Szmulewicz @danielsz.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

There are no easy answers to come by in art. Extending a critique is as delicate a matter as receiving it. A critique is one possible interpretation of a work. It is never true or false. What matters is what one does with it, that is to say, how one listens to it. ai.tuppu.net #photography #china

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Daniel Szmulewicz @danielsz.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

Hi, my name is René and I will critique your photos, one or multiple at the time. I can help you pick the best version of similar photos, or critique a thematic series. You can follow up with any question and I will be happy to oblige. Join me at ai.tuppu.net

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Daniel Szmulewicz @danielsz.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

Southern China has strong traditions that emerge fully during Spring festival. I took this shot in Haikou, and asked René to offer his critique. René will critique your photography at ai.tuppu.net #photography #photomontag #streetphotography #streets #fotografia #china #springfestival #girl

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Daniel Szmulewicz @danielsz.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

Some photographs lean heavier on a promise than a realization. René picked that up in his critique. Sometimes, shooting conditions are harsh. René generated the critique of that photo, but also the video that you're watching, with the voice-over and the subtitles. ai.tuppu.net

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Daniel Szmulewicz @danielsz.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

As creators, we all know the craving for validation and the self-doubt that creeps in every so often. Is this an essential byproduct of the creative process? Is it conceivable to see technology inviting itself in the monologue we conduct in our minds? ai.tuppu.net/about

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Daniel Szmulewicz @danielsz.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

Today is my birthday and I would like to invite you, yes you, to the Haikou Diaries, an artistic project around the south of China. It is an ongoing photographic diary from my extended stays in the region mixing the cultural, the personal and the supernatural. Link in bio.

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Jack Rusher @jackrusher.com · 21/02/2025

In case any of my colleagues in the Clojure community think data-driven software design is a new idea.

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Christophe Grand (cgrand) @cgrand.net · 21/02/2025

ClojureDart repl is coming for real!

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Daniel Janus 💙💛 #StandWithUkraine @danieljanus.pl · 21/02/2025

So, ‘Elements of Clojure’ is now free. Before it went free, I had only ever read the preview, and liked it; but never really got to digging deeper. Now I’m halfway through – and already feel profoundly enlightened. Can I still pay for it? @ztellman.ideolalia.com do you accept donations?

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Daniel Szmulewicz @danielsz.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

nREPL is language agnostic by design and it has proven itself useful beyond Clojure and Emacs in multiple instances. The protocol is at the center of a DevEx effort led by @abcdw for Guile Schemers. Reuse of tooling + improvements in REPL experience. www.youtube.com/watch?v=gQpw...

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A Modern and Extensible IDE for Guile Scheme

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Daniel Szmulewicz @danielsz.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

Here is another release in my peripatetic video series. youtu.be/SaE1DAkLV3U This time we are walking under the Tropics, discussing how text decoration is handled in the Bluesky API. This is not a tutorial but rather an exposition of the problem. I advocate for a recursive solution à la Scheme.

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Notes from the field

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(λ. borkdude) @borkdude.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

New #cljKondo is out with a new redundant-nested-call linter which reports functions and macro calls that you could unnest: #clojure

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Weavejester @weavejester.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/10/2024

Ring 1.13.0 has been released, with support for Unix domain sockets on the Jetty adapter, and various other small fixes and improvements. #clojure github.com/ring-clojure/ring

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Daniel Szmulewicz @danielsz.bsky.social · 16/10/2024

The videos from Heart of Clojure 2024 are out! Head here for The Shoulders of Giants or Uncovering the Foundational Ideas of Lisp. Please don't hesitate to share your thoughts... youtu.be/vN7qAz32mF0 #hoc2024 #heartofclojure #lisp #talk

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"The Shoulders of Giants or Uncovering the Foundational Ideas of Lisp" by Daniel Szmulewicz at HoC24

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Daniel Szmulewicz @danielsz.bsky.social · 21/09/2024

#heartofclojure At Heart Of Clojure 2024, I took a couple of portraits willy-nilly. I've put them in a Google photos album for the enjoyment of all. photos.app.goo.gl/cCH9Rqr5KNH2... Free to use under CC-BY 4.0.

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17 new items added to shared album

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Daniel Szmulewicz @danielsz.bsky.social · 30/07/2024

New blog post: Lisp's grandfather paradox danielsz.github.io/20240718T060...

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Lisp's grandfather paradox

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Daniel Szmulewicz @danielsz.bsky.social · 28/04/2024

A whirlwind tour that sheds light on the design of web frameworks that emerged in all language communities (Servlets, WSGI or Rack), reflecting the need to standardize around a portable interface abstracting HTTP. This is a hands-on post via a take on Ring. danielsz.github.io/2024-04-17T2...

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The anatomy of a HTTP server

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Daniel Szmulewicz @danielsz.bsky.social · 09/04/2024

Experimental support for WebSockets in Ring was added in 1.11.0-alpha1. I haven’t seen examples in the wild yet, so here is mine: a fully fleshed example that shows how to piece everything together. github.com/danielsz/rin...

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Daniel Szmulewicz @danielsz.bsky.social · 24/03/2024

Who is doing binary serialization with CBOR in Clojure? Here's a protocol based parser that recursively calls Java procedures to get Clojure data structures. It leverages Java libraries, such as the one by @ianopolous.bsky.social from the @peergos.org project. gist.github.com/danielsz/9ce... Enjoy

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Daniel Szmulewicz @danielsz.bsky.social · 16/03/2024

"grug no get lost in big brain fog. big brain want think-think. grug no want think, grug want build. grug must build to think." leebyron.com/til/grug/

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Bozhidar Batsov (a.k.a. Bug) @batsov.net · 28/02/2024

Seems my recent article about the second Golden Age of Emacs made it to HackerNews news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3952... and generated an interesting discussion there.

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The Second Golden Age of Emacs | Hacker News

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