Clojurians Log v2

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https://www.darkcoding.net/software/a-day-in-the-life-of-a-professional-software-engineer/ 😂

Yeah, I read that and laughed.

Good Morning Fellow Clojurists!

Also, remember yak shaving it’s just for programmers. Otherwise, I wouldn’t be researching photographic subjects in Shropshire, in order to occupy 3 hours waiting for a protective cover to be moulded for my bike, in order to justify a trip to Shropshire to make my bike sufficiently robust for it’s intended nature, in order for me to enjoy my bike worry free…

Did you ever finish your photography ideas app?

Actually, no. However, the project did serve it’s other intended purpose of allowing me to learn ELM + Phoenix / Elixir. My takeaways from it were: 1. I really really like ELM 2. I would happily use Phoenix for a simple to medium sized project, and would choose it over Ruby On Rails. 3. I think Phoenix’s frameworks are somewhat constraining for large projects where concepts like DDD work really well. For these projects, a more flexible architecture is more beneficial than initial project startup development speed.. I did start to recode the application about 4 months ago in CLJ/CLJS (Re-Frame) using Luminus, but I can’t share links to the MVP yet as I’ve not got around to implementing authentication yet.

I have an unread Elm book 🤦

@paulspencerwilliams allie||steel bikes will take a proper beating 😬

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Steel will take a beating, but thin fat tubed aluminium less so when hit with ~ 2kg rocks. I can’t find the photo but a chap on my bike’s FB owners group broke his 1 week old frame due to such impact.

This is what I’m looking to have mounded for my specific frame -> https://www.rockguardz.com

It’ll somewhat absorb and dissipate impact, and somewhat protect against tube punctures.

i've got a large (non-punctured) dent in my allie downtube from a full-weight rock impact from below... it's been fine. no doubt positioning helps - the down-tube is mostly in tension, if it were a tube commonly in compression then it would probably not have worked out so well. i think it would have been the end of a carbon frame, but i guess there are many specific scenarios which different materials will weather better

What bike do you have?

I’ve recently bought a Bird Aether 9 (before it winning the MBUK Trail Bike of the Year Award and thus can claim I ordered it whilst it was still cool 😆).

i've got a canyon spectral from '18... but next time i buy i'll be looking very closely at the british options - bird and cotic spring to mind

Good Morning™

The Canyon’s nice, it’s amazing to think it’s geometry is ‘a bit old’ when a bike’s only 4 years old, but that’s the way mtbing is going. I’ve only ridden my Bird 3 times so I can’t comment on reliability etc, but I’m really enjoying it. It’s massively long and stable, I can’t wait to take it to Eastridge to get it on super steep terrain…

The Cotic’s are lovely too, similar if a bit shorter.

i think canyon were always a bit on the conservative side with their geometry... you should have seen my old (c.1999) bike tho 🙂 - the change was phenomenal

Yeah, Canyon did come from the dark side (read lycra wearing side)… However, I think the Sender would be the DH bike I’d get if I had the money….

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