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nightwolf··on Listen to Database Changes Through the Postgres WAL
If you do end up trying it out and hit any roadblocks, please don't hesitate to file an issue. I'd be very interested in hearing how it goes!
nightwolf··on Show HN: Heynote – A dedicated scratchpad for developers
This is fantastic, thank you for making and sharing it?

Is there any chance of Heynote supporting Clojure syntax one day?

nightwolf··on Strong static typing, a hill I'm willing to die on
clojure.spec is explicitly not a type system:

https://clojure.org/about/spec#_expressivity_proof

nightwolf··on Dart 3.1 and a retrospective on functional style programming in Dart
There is indeed: https://github.com/Tensegritics/ClojureDart
nightwolf··on (next Rich)
FWIW, Datomic still isn't open-source, but it is free:

- https://blog.datomic.com/2023/04/datomic-is-free.html - https://blog.datomic.com/2023/06/datomic-cloud-is-free.html

nightwolf··on Sublime Clojure
Happy to see both my favorite editor and my favorite programming language hit the front page of Hacker News! FWIW, I responded to some of the points regarding Tutkain over at reddit[1].

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/Clojure/comments/rflhxf/comment/hoi...

nightwolf··on Show HN: Farolero – Common Lisp style-conditions and restarts for Clojure
Do you mean Fogus, or have I missed something?
nightwolf··on I rewrote a Clojure tool in Rust
The person who mentioned using the Cursive debugger is different than the person who mentioned using the REPL.
nightwolf··on Ask HN: What are the cons of Google Polymer?
I see now, many thanks for the informative reply!
nightwolf··on Ask HN: What are the cons of Google Polymer?
>the "DOM is your API" paradigm

What does that mean, exactly? Do you have any resources you could link to?

nightwolf··on Elixir v1.1.0 Released
The variable isn't mutated, actually — it's rebound. See http://natescottwest.com/elixir-for-rubyists-part-2/, for example.
nightwolf··on Show HN: Ghostnote – Contextual notes and todo app
I have the same problem with Sublime Text 3 — Ghostnote doesn't detect it at all. Detaching doesn't help.
nightwolf··on Waitin' (on Leiningen)
It's not actually that JVM startup time is slow, it's Clojure startup time in particular. See:

https://nicholaskariniemi.github.io/2014/02/11/jvm-slow-star...

And the other articles here:

https://nicholaskariniemi.github.io/

nightwolf··on Grab – simple but very fast grep
I just wanted to thank you for ag. It's literally the most used command in my shell history and I consider it crucial to my work. So, thanks!
nightwolf··on You Don't Need JQuery
Also Zepto:

http://zeptojs.com/

nightwolf··on Imperative vs. Declarative (2013)
Or maybe XSLT?
nightwolf··on Sile, a typesetting system inspired by TeX and InDesign
I don't know, but I'm guessing the manual[1] is created with SILE?

[1] https://raw.githubusercontent.com/simoncozens/sile/master/do...

nightwolf··on New Sublime Text 3 New Beta
Not disagreeing with your other points, but these days there is a Windows binary (https://atom.io/faq), too. On Linux you can build from source.
nightwolf··on Vint Cerf on Colbert
Hola Unblocker works, too.
nightwolf··on Quick tip for developers who use OS X
You can also use "cd -" to go back to the previous path:

  $ cd /
  $ pwd
  /
  $ cd /tmp
  $ pwd
  /tmp
  $ cd -
  $ pwd
  /
Not the same, of course, but still useful, I think.
nightwolf··on Libsass – C implementation of a Sass compiler
JFYI: The link to SassC on http://libsass.org is broken.
nightwolf··on Show HN: Capture a screen area in OS X and automatically pin it
Quite a coincidence. I was seriously thinking that I could really use an application precisely like this earlier today, and here it is!

Love it!

nightwolf··on XPath is actually pretty useful once it stops being confusing
Just curious: what are the "bigger and better things" that have replaced XSLT? From what I can tell, it's still being used quite a lot, especially in the world of structured documentation. For something like transforming massive amounts of XML with a great amount of structural variety to another format, XSLT would certainly be my first choice.
nightwolf··on I am not a css hacker but please HN change your css. smartphone experience suck
And cue the comments where it says HN is just fine and nothing about it never ever needs to be changed and every change you could possibly make to it would just make it worse and you just don't know how to use your phone and so on...

FWIW, I'm partial to HackerWeb (http://cheeaun.github.io/hackerweb/) on the iPhone and http://hckrnews.com/ on the desktop myself.

nightwolf··on Forecast – Worldwide Weather Forecasts From the Makers of Dark Sky
Looks great! One suggestion, though: since you're detecting the user's location anyway, couldn't you automatically use Fahrenheit only for the US and Celsius for all other countries?
nightwolf··on Pedestal – An open source tool set for building web applications in Clojure
Really liking the website!
nightwolf··on Show HN: Updated Hacker News Chrome Extension
Chrome 25.0.1364.160 on OS X.

I think I also tried installing it on a Windows computer, too, though, and got the same error.

nightwolf··on Show HN: Updated Hacker News Chrome Extension
FWIW, when I try installing the extension, it says "Manifest file is invalid" and the installation fails.
nightwolf··on Hook: oh-my-zsh style community plugins and management for the fish shell
Great idea and it's working fine!

However, there seems to be a minor error in README.md: it points to ~/config/fish/, whereas the default fish config dir is ~/.config/fish/ (the dot is missing from ~/.config).

nightwolf··on Mosh: SSH for 2012
In case anyone’s interested, here’s how I managed to get Mosh to compile under Cygwin:

https://gist.github.com/gists/2349067/