community-development

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justinlee 2018-03-26T17:08:34.000651Z

is there a resource that lets you pay attention to all the various places in which clojure is discussed? e.g. reddit, clojureverse, stackoverflow, mailing lists. i was wondering if there is some kind of slack bot thingy that could dump notifications into a channel

manderson 2018-03-26T17:35:44.000208Z

I don't know of anywhere that compiles all the content, however, the REPL newsletter: https://therepl.net/ does a great job of providing a weekly curated list of what's happening in Clojure and pulls from the different communities. Probably not exactly what you're asking for, but I find it really useful.

justinlee 2018-03-26T17:55:34.000166Z

Oh that’s very nice. I didn’t know about that. I still think it’d be cool to have a real time slack channel or web feed but this is almost good enough.

2018-03-26T19:33:51.000289Z

@lee.justin.m in some ways its better, if you trust him to filter the information for you. A collection of everything clojure related would be somewhat noisy 🙂

justinlee 2018-03-26T19:35:43.000394Z

@drewverlee true but I would like to skim the chatter on reddit and other places and slack makes it easy to do that without having to file away a bunch of emails and whatnot. still this newsletter is valuable in its own right

seancorfield 2018-03-26T20:39:11.000717Z

@lee.justin.m There's also Eric Normand's http://PurelyFunctional.tv newsletter which often has links to fascinating articles/videos (not always Clojure but related) /cc @drewverlee

fellshard 2018-03-26T20:46:29.000657Z

I follow both, and you get a great spread of articles and talks between the two. Oftentimes The REPL will reference topics of interest in other communities.

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cfleming 2018-03-26T20:55:18.000467Z

I also follow both but I particularly like the REPL, Daniel does a great job with it.

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danielcompton 2018-03-26T21:26:23.000447Z

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seancorfield 2018-03-26T21:26:31.000150Z

I love the way The REPL has some persistent topic sections from week-to-week that lead to some really interesting articles...

danielcompton 2018-03-26T21:28:50.000619Z

@lee.justin.m I don't usually look at StackOverflow unless I see a particularly notable answer, but I cover the rest of those places when I compile The REPL

justinlee 2018-03-26T21:35:59.000525Z

@danielcompton thanks for the great resource! i setup a SO mailing alert so this is probably a good enough solution

danielcompton 2018-03-26T21:36:30.000111Z

Yeah SO can be pretty noisy, so I usually let people follow that themselves if they want

arrdem 2018-03-26T21:38:38.000074Z

I’ve personally found the Clojure SO tag to be pretty low value. Most of the interesting stuff seems to come from blogs or twitter.

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seancorfield 2018-03-26T21:39:20.000204Z

Quora also has some interesting stuff but those aren't "public" (not like having to create a Quora account to read answers is a big barrier, but still...).

seancorfield 2018-03-26T21:40:00.000124Z

(and @arrdem’s point about SO also applies to some amount of Quora content too)

arrdem 2018-03-26T21:40:25.000116Z

I need to write a browser plugin to kill Quora’s login blocker.

arrdem 2018-03-26T21:40:25.000179Z

Quora is the worst.

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arrdem 2018-03-26T21:41:09.000001Z

You get better eg more essay style answers there than on SO and typically from people with a broader view but it’s much less accessible. They try really hard to get you sucked into their … space.

arrdem 2018-03-26T21:41:36.000430Z

At least on SO of Medium you can read and leave as you please.

justinlee 2018-03-26T21:41:45.000296Z

I wanted to pay attention to SO because I want more JS devs to use cljs. Unanswered SO questions seem like a bad signal.