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Jean-Jacques Strydom @psionicalch.com · 18/10/2025

Got the runtime API designed. Outside of timelines, full scroll trigger, and full stagger support everything else in GSAP core should be covered. #wordpress #gutenberg #gsap

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Jean-Jacques Strydom @psionicalch.com · 16/10/2025

Just got done creating a proof-of-concept custom WordPress block. I wanted all the power of GSAP in WordPress but I refuse to pay to for it. So I ended up paying in time. 🤣 #webdev #wordpress #gsap

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Jean-Jacques Strydom @psionicalch.com · 28/08/2025

Crafting Interpreters by Robert Nystrom #programming

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Jean-Jacques Strydom @psionicalch.com · 27/08/2025

What on earth is HR smoking? "like a tree ready for wiring to discover the bonsai within" 🤣 Also, why is Python getting used for the frontend!? #jobhunting

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Jean-Jacques Strydom @psionicalch.com · 26/08/2025

Recursion + Collector functions are absolutely breaking my brain 💀🤯 #programming #lisp #scheme

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Jean-Jacques Strydom @psionicalch.com · 23/08/2025

The cool thing about Lisp is that it's naturally obfuscated 🤣 #programming #scheme #lisp

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Jean-Jacques Strydom @psionicalch.com · 19/08/2025

I am blown away by "The Little Schemer" by Daniel P. Friedman and Matthias Felleisen. Instead of taking the typical academic approach of throwing definitions at you it trains your pattern recognition via small questions and answers. #lisp #scheme #programming

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Jean-Jacques Strydom @psionicalch.com · 16/08/2025

On today's episode of bot-watch news: "Bots are beating cancer". Brought to you by Threads' algorithm #bots

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Jean-Jacques Strydom @psionicalch.com · 07/08/2025

I never considered creating a router as nested arrays. I mean it's a good way to internally represent a router but I'm so used to seeing routers in a more OOP style of programming where you create a router instance. #webdev #clojure

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Jean-Jacques Strydom @psionicalch.com · 06/08/2025

This meme is dedicated to every snowflake that I triggered on Threads 🤣

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Jean-Jacques Strydom @psionicalch.com · 02/08/2025

As an example you can see the REPL and the browser devtools console. (forgive the weirdness going on in the REPL. I'm still getting used to Emacs' terminal)

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Jean-Jacques Strydom @psionicalch.com · 31/07/2025

Who needs JSX when you have ✨hiccup✨? (This is gonna require some getting used to 🙈) #WebDevelopment

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Jean-Jacques Strydom @psionicalch.com · 28/07/2025

Of all the names that Clojure could have used for the functions that read from and write to resources 🤣 #clojure

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Jean-Jacques Strydom @psionicalch.com · 26/07/2025

Ah so Go created it. Clojure upgraded it. (Screenshot from www.braveclojure.com)

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Jean-Jacques Strydom @psionicalch.com · 26/07/2025

I just learned you can get the HTML from a website using the same function you'd use to read a file 🤣 #clojure

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Jean-Jacques Strydom @psionicalch.com · 25/07/2025

I always though channels and goroutines were unique to Golang. Turns out Clojure also has them, and then some. In Clojure you can have a buffered channel (just like in Go). But you could also have a buffered channel that drops either the newest or oldest value when full 🤯

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Jean-Jacques Strydom @psionicalch.com · 23/07/2025

GTK theming is unnecessarily hard outside of GNOME. Got colors working. Got mouse icon working. Actual icons refuse to work (as seen in Emacs task bar where ugly default icons are shown) 😪 #Linux

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Jean-Jacques Strydom @psionicalch.com · 20/07/2025

I'm really starting to love how everything in Lisp is just a list. If the first element in the list is a function then everything else in the list gets passed as parameters to the function. (Still learning all of this so I may have butchered the explanation 😂) #Lisp #Clojure

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Jean-Jacques Strydom @psionicalch.com · 20/07/2025

Busy testing out Nyxt browser. Reading through the tutoriall. When I realised the 'a' character is off by 1 pixel. It looks like it was moved down by 1 pixel. WHY? 🤣

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Jean-Jacques Strydom @psionicalch.com · 10/07/2025

Learning Clojure/LISP has made me feel extremely dumb for the first time in years. I feel like I don't know anything about programming. That being said, I'm quite proud of the first function I wrote without AI #clojure #lisp

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Jean-Jacques Strydom @psionicalch.com · 21/06/2025

Don't forget Dart as well. You can build full Flutter apps using Clojure 🤣

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Jean-Jacques Strydom @psionicalch.com · 21/06/2025

It's so cool seeing FP frontend frameworks like Elm/Elm Land (elm.land) in this case. The syntax is a bit weird but as someone who came from OOP and procedural programming it's so cool seeing something so far out of my comfort zone. #elmlang

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Jean-Jacques Strydom @psionicalch.com · 21/06/2025

You can even create a full mobile apps using Clojure and Flutter 🤯 #webdev #clojure #flutter

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Jean-Jacques Strydom @psionicalch.com · 21/06/2025

You can create a backend using Clojure and Kit (kit-clj.github.io) which utilizes the JVM. #webdev #clojure #backend

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Jean-Jacques Strydom @psionicalch.com · 21/06/2025

You can create websites using Clojure and reagent (ReactJS for Clojure). #webdev #clojure #reactjs

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Jean-Jacques Strydom @psionicalch.com · 20/06/2025

I went on a side quest thinking I'm just gonna set up NixOS and dwm. I ended up learning a degree's worth of Linux and developing a dangerous obsession with Lisp, Emacs and FP. Send help 🤣 #nixos #linux #ricing

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Jean-Jacques Strydom @psionicalch.com · 03/06/2025

Today I learned you can state the index of an element when creating an array in Golang. 🤔 It really caught me off guard when I saw it. 🤣 #golang

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Jean-Jacques Strydom @psionicalch.com · 30/05/2025

When I started programming 100 loc seemed like a lot. Now here I am working with 1k+ lines long README file. Keep hustling 💪 #coding #programmer

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Jean-Jacques Strydom @psionicalch.com · 30/05/2025

Are you tired of constantly having to write for i, e := range s {} in Golang? Yeah, me too! Let me introduce you to byteforge's newest additions, ForEach and ParallelForEach. Loop over your slices in style 😎 Get yours today at: github.com/PsionicAlch/... #golang

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Jean-Jacques Strydom @psionicalch.com · 26/05/2025

Just dropped: a functional programming–style collection API for Go! It’s not fast. 🤣 But you can now chain Map(), Filter(), Reduce() on slices like you’re living in the Laravel world. Because sometimes… you just want pretty code. 😎 #golang

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Jean-Jacques Strydom @psionicalch.com · 26/05/2025

Exact same function except that you can't do function chaining. At least you have full type safety and it's probably a fair bit faster at runtime. 😂 #golang

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Jean-Jacques Strydom @psionicalch.com · 26/05/2025

I really wish Go had generic functions on top of generic structs. Until then this monstrosity will have to do 🤣 Feels really weird to turn Go into a weakly typed language 🙈 #golang

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Jean-Jacques Strydom @psionicalch.com · 25/05/2025

Just a quick rough draft that I came up with on my phone. Obviously it's not quite as "pretty" as the Rust version but it can definitely work. It'll likely look more like PHP than Rust: laravel.com/docs/12.x/co...

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Jean-Jacques Strydom @psionicalch.com · 21/05/2025

I tried to use Gin for a Golang web project until I realised that I can't use the HTML templates the way I'm used to. The extra lines of code is a price that I'm willing to pay for things to work they way I expect them to 😂 #golang #webdev

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Jean-Jacques Strydom @psionicalch.com · 21/05/2025

I couldn't agree with you more. It's so hard to actually hide your inabilities when talking to someone who actually know the work. I don't have enough characters on this app to properly explain what I had in mind so here is the LinkedIn post I made on the topic a week ago.

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Jean-Jacques Strydom @psionicalch.com · 18/05/2025

There's this one: discord.gg/golang

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Jean-Jacques Strydom @psionicalch.com · 17/05/2025

It should be doable now if I'm not mistaken? I've been dying for the opportunity to add to an open source project so I'd also love to help 😁

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Jean-Jacques Strydom @psionicalch.com · 16/05/2025

Laravel is the best web framewok I've ever used. So I was excited to hear about NativePHP for mobile. I was hoping it would be a good competitor to React Native and Flutter. But you have to pay to use it... How did PHP become pay-to-play? 🤣 #php #laravel

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Jean-Jacques Strydom @psionicalch.com · 15/05/2025

3 frickin paragraphs before mentioning that they decided no to move forward with my application 🤣 #jobhunting

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Jean-Jacques Strydom @psionicalch.com · 14/05/2025

The complexity difference between single-threaded and multi-threaded code. #golang

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Jean-Jacques Strydom @psionicalch.com · 12/05/2025

A few hours after seeing the UX monstrosity that is Crayon, I had a recruiter reach out to me about the exact role I gave up on applying for 🤣 Crayon must've heard me talking smack 😂🤣 #jobhunting

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Jean-Jacques Strydom @psionicalch.com · 12/05/2025

Whenever I see bugs in the wild it reminds me that even the best developer can make a mistake. #webdev

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Jean-Jacques Strydom @psionicalch.com · 12/05/2025

I think I've officially discovered the worse job site I feel like I'm back in kindergarten. And why is the screen so damn busy!? 🤣 #jobhunting

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Jean-Jacques Strydom @psionicalch.com · 09/05/2025

Honestly wish I was kidding. I even applied for the same role again and they said I can't have two separate roles at the same time 🤣 #jobhunting

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Jean-Jacques Strydom @psionicalch.com · 09/05/2025

I really love scenario based testing in Go. It feels so clean and well structured. With a sprinkle of automation. #golang #testing

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