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The 5 Year Old Servant!

noreply@equalsto.me (Dawud Kabouter) — Sun, 22 Jun 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Since her birth we have followed the Tibetan technique for parenting. From the time she was born till the day she turned 5 we treated as one would treat royalty. We waited on her every breathe. Now she is taught to wait on us, to serve her family, to serve others. The transition to this phase of her development, the phase that teaches her humility through service to others, the phase that helps her combat the innate human condition of selfishness.

Functional First!

noreply@equalsto.me (Dawud Kabouter) — Sat, 21 Jun 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Clojure was the one that showed me that immutable data is a thing and OOP Java is not everything. Cause Java was my first, my native, my be all and end all. I was a Java developer for 10 years before I discovered Clojure. And it was a revelation!

Compare two approaches to summing numbers — imperative with mutable state:

(let [sum (atom 0)]
  (doseq [n [1 2 3 4 5]] (swap! sum + n))
  @sum)

And the same thing, functional and declarative end to end:

(reduce + [1 2 3 4 5])

A typical day's command-line workflow:

cd lemonade
lein new-post "Today's reflection" --tags daily
lein static

I learned that functional programming is not just a buzzword, it's a way of thinking about problems that leads to simpler, more maintainable code. Clojure's emphasis on immutability and pure functions has changed the way I approach software development.

Clojure, Love at first write!

noreply@equalsto.me (Dawud Kabouter) — Fri, 20 Jun 2025 00:00:00 +0000

This is my first post using Clojure! It's just supposed to be a test while I write some code to get this blog up and running. As I'm still getting the hang of the language the plan is to build with just the basics to get the blog up and running. Once the MVP is in production we will begin work on the next iteration using more advanced features of Clojure and ClojureScript. I hope you enjoy the strugglesome journey as much as I do!