All posts by justintaft

In clojure, nested maps are used often to store data and materialized relationships. If you need to refactor a data structure though, you have to change everywhere in code that uses a hierarchy of keys/index positions to access data. Oof, this makes refactoring a nightmare. Some tame the complexity by writing functions to handle getting/setting…

I came across an interesting stack overflow that took input from scanf(“%lf”), and stored it into a buffer.Due to precision, you can’t simply encode an arbitrary unsigned integer into a float through decimal representation. Reading the source code of scanf, I came across an alternative encoding known as hex float. This encoding appeared to be…

If running cider-connect-cljs returns the following error: It means the port is open, but nrepl is failing to respond. Ensure nREPL is listening on the right port and address. Where your project is running, do netstat -nl. If nrepl is bound to 127.0.0.1 in a docker container, update it to 0.0.0.0.

Brain dump of how I think about businesses types. Some businesses package multiple types for their offering. Businesses not need to be complex, but only need to offer value. Content Aggregation – These businesses do not focus on creating new content, but rather collecting and aggregating. Examples include News websites, Social Media, Conferences,Blockbuster. Monetization comes…