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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

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

The plan is to wrap GSAP in a runtime that uses data-* attributes. So something akin to AlpineJS or HTMX but specifically for animations. Then expose the data-* attributes in WordPress as attributes on the custom block. I plan to even have timelines working. #wordpress #webdev #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 · 31/08/2025

But very fun and makes me feel smart 🤓

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

Crafting Interpreters by Robert Nystrom #programming

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

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

Jean-Jacques Strydom @psionicalch.com · 22/08/2025

Programming languages are just Turing-complete configuration formats for their compilers/interpreters that tell them what to generate. #programming

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

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

Jean-Jacques Strydom @psionicalch.com · 15/08/2025

"Any sufficiently complicated C or Fortran program contains an ad hoc, informally-specified, bug-ridden, slow implementation of half of Common Lisp." - Greenspun's tenth rule of programming

hanion @haniondev.bsky.social · 09/08/2025

Reposted by Jean-Jacques Strydom

I got nerd sniped by @tsoding.bsky.social. Site generation with C templates: hanion.dev/post/mite/

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

You're right. This was just the first time I've ever seen an example where you create a router without the typical OOP wrapper. It's nice to see such a clear cut between data and the functions that act on the data.

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

It's reasons like this that I believe learning programming from a generalist approach is so extremely important. You get to see many different view points. You get to see the same problem solved in dozens of unique ways. Specialization leads to tunnel vision. #programming

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

The past got a lot of things right

"To make an analogy with mathematics, understanding a few fundamental theorems and their implications is far more useful than rote memorization of specific formulas." - Web Development with Clojure #programming

You having some PHP LAMP stack nostalgia? 👀

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

Personally I think langs like Clojure, and Elixir are actually quite popular. In fact I would put both of them on par with Go's popularity. I have stumbled upon a whole bunch of langs less popular

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The Koka Programming Language

Yeah, from what I have seen new features basically only ever come from the indie langs. Take Koka lang and their experimentations into Effect Types: koka-lang.github.io/koka/doc/ind... The mainstream languages only really ever adopt new features once they're properly tested and "safe"

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Koka Language Specification

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I also love that part of Go. But IMO Scheme does it better. The R7RS-small spec requires only a minimal core of orthogonal features, but they're so powerful that anything else can be built as libraries - including Go-style concurrency (see Guile Fibers).

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Concurrent ML-like concurrency for Guile

It's not a unique feature to Go though. Clojure has green threads and channels as well (in fact Clojure has better buffered channels). Erlang/Elixir also has green threads with message passing between isolated processes. Guile has Go style threads via a library. codeberg.org/fibers/fibers

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What problems do Go solve in a unique way? I really like Go but from my own experiences Go tries to be the most vanilla programming language in existence.

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Jean-Jacques Strydom @psionicalch.com · 03/08/2025

The more programming languages I learn the less unique they all seem. It's just the same features and implementations. Only thing that really changes is the syntax. It makes arguments over which programming language is the best seem EXTREMELY stupid. #programming

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You think way too highly of me 😂

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)

From there I can use my terminal as if though it's the actual browser console. I can read variables created in the browser console. I can set new variables that I can access in the browser console. If I write something like `(println "Hello, World")` in the REPL it prints in the REPL and the console

Not that I'm aware of... I've never heard nor seen anything about it when using ReactJS/VueJS/Svelte/NextJS/NuxtJS/SvelteKit. When I run the reagent (ReactJS wrapper for CLJS) project via the terminal, I get a REPL that opens up and connects to the browser currently running the website.

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

The interop between the Clojurescript REPL and the browser devtools console is blowing my mind! I can create new variables in the console and they are immediately available inside the REPL and vice versa. Without the need to reload or anything. #clojure #webdev

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Why even have ads in your product if all the ads are about removing the ads from your product!?

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

I hope I can learn the same appreciation for it. Currently I'm really missing JSX 😂

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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 · 30/07/2025

JavaScript is a compile-to-js language #webdev

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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

Careful there. Wouldn't want you to accidentally get sucked into Lisp with me 😂

Fascinating. Thanks for sharing

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

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

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

It's where mine's starting as well.

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

Clojure for the Brave and True is one of, if not the best programming books I've ever read! www.braveclojure.com

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Learn to Program the World's Most Bodacious Language with Clojure for the Brave and True

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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 🤯