Pre-signed S3 URLs with Clojure and ClojureScript

Pre-signed S3 URLs with Clojure and ClojureScript

May 11, 2017 | Technical

Dashman uses S3 for storing the encrypted screenshots. They can go directly from the renderer application to S3 and from there to the displayer application as there’s no need for the server application to ever see them. They are end-to-end encrypted anyway. My...
How to work with a private library in ClojureScript

How to work with a private library in ClojureScript

May 6, 2017 | Technical

Dashman is composed of many components  including three desktop apps written in ClojureScript using Electron that share code through a private library (as in, it’s not open source). To have continuous integration and a set up that is easy to boostrap, that...
ClojureScript debouncer

ClojureScript debouncer

Apr 15, 2017 | Technical

I’m developing Dashman in ClojureScript (and Clojure) and as I was developing the cookie handler I found sites that constantly modify the cookies. As in, many times per second. Obviously I don’t want to encrypt the cookies and send them to the server that...
Emacs is hurting Clojure 

Emacs is hurting Clojure 

Sep 26, 2016 | Technical

Emacs is a very powerful text editor and its popularity amongst Clojurians is easily understood. Emacs has a long tradition in the Lisp communities as it’s written, in a big part, in a flavor of Lisp called Emacs Lisp. Because of its history, it handles Lisp...
to-jdbc-uri 0.5.0 released

to-jdbc-uri 0.5.0 released

Dec 22, 2015 | Technical

We just released to-jdbc-uri 0.5.0 with support for URL parameters. Courtesy of Joe Kutner. I’d like to note, sometimes I hear that the Clojure community doesn’t care about testing, but to-jdbc-uri has a very complete testing suite and so far, this and...