Hack Session 505 ✼ Remotely

Feedback on @olange and @rudifa's session

Future work

Reflecting upon last year's recent sessions, we discussed directions for our upcoming sessions:

Finishing the work started in ObservableHQ, that is, building ‹game-world› and ‹game-board› web components (rendering in SVG), to be able to mock our game and support ideation and game design
Start mockup from scratch with Figma
Study the sync the game state peer-to-peer, using an in-memory lightweight distributed database such as GUN.

We decided finishing what was started last year in Observable, but converting the components to standalone ones based on the Lit starter template. This is the most expensive option, which will require us to set time aside our sessions.

Clojure, ClojureScript and hand-drawing

We also discussed Clojure, ClojureScript, which I restarted studying during the EOY break, following a series of podcasts I listened to, while wood-working in the garage on a bed for our little one.

As well as tools for drawing by hand, in 2D and 3D, as I restarted drawing a sketch of the arcade table setup I envision, with the uMake app on my iPad. I quickly presented older drawings from my olange/shapes repo.

Post-session study by @olange

Reinstall of Clojure on my notebook:

Installation of OpenJDK 17 and clojure/tools/clojure with Homebrew
Installation of Babashka with Homebrew and played with examples from the Babashka Book
Installation of Clojure Calva extension for VS Code, fired up the «Getting started» REPL and played a bit with it

Random walk in the Clojure-verse:

Study of Clojure Reader Conditionals (aka CLJC)
Quick overview of repl.it
A refreshing tour of the Clojure Toolbox and of ClojureWerkz — I got lost in aleph, manifold and sente
Overview of babashka/obb CLJS scripting of Mac apps and babashka/nbb CLJS scripting on Node.js — got lost in the #retrocomputing #aestetic tweets of chr15m/c64core twitter bot
Browsed Clojure for the Brave and True book by Daniel Higginbotham

It's been a while! tooling has wonderfully evolved since 2013.

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