Chris Oakman

@oakmac1

I like making things with software.

The Woodlands, TX

Joined August 2013

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Chris Oakman
@oakmac1
Jun 23
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Letter to Jack
Dear Jack, Congratulations on finishing high school, and I am glad you landed on a college you are excited about. You were always a good kid. Now you get to find out what kind of man you are going to...
Chris Oakman
@oakmac1
Jul 23
Strong agree with this. Pick important boundaries in your application where this makes sense. Schema libraries make this easy. In Clojure, malli and clojure.spec work well.
Manuel Simoni
@msimoni
Jul 23
Making illegal states unrepresentable is a good idea in dynamically typed languages also: simply prevent construction of illegal values at runtime. Of course you can't check this at compile-time, but the states _are_ not representable, if you take this to mean, existing at
Chris Oakman
@oakmac1
Jul 16
I just published v0.29.0 of Standard Clojure Style. Very close to a v1.0.0 release! A bugfix related to comments did cause a diff in one of my projects, just FYI. I believe the new behavior is "correct"
Chris Oakman
@oakmac1
Jul 15
I have been using both Fable and the latest OpenAI model to close out some outstanding Standard Clojure Style issues. This work is conceptually difficult and tedious and hard to get right, and these models are crushing it. What a time to be alive! 🤓💪
Chris Oakman
@oakmac1
Jun 22
I wrote a letter to my cousin about how to spend your Tuesdays: chrisoakman.com/writing/letter…