Luke Triantafyllidis @ltriant@mastodon.technology

I never did an introduction post, so here goes.

Hi I'm Luke 😎

I'm a software engineer from Australia. Have spent the last 10+ years working on distributed systems, most recently with Clojure.

On the side I love working on systems programming stuff. Currently hacking away at Rust in my spare time to build a NES emulator, and some other projects in C.

Super interested in the decentralised web movements going on, and am slowly working to distance myself from the tech giants.

#introduction
#introductions

Learning just enough SDL2 for my NES emulator, so I wrote a Conway's Game of Life simulator 😍

Code: https://gist.github.com/ltriant/6ed8eb88ab59dd32411356d52db0e932

#c

Pulled the plug and installed GHC... goodbye to any progress on my existing side project.

Watching Blown Away on Netflix. Glass blowing is fascinating AF to watch.

I don't mind Clojure most of the time, but holy shit what I wouldn't give for some static types today.

Holy shit, the JVM makes it fucking impossible to set environment variables.

As opposed to Perl or C or anything else that makes it trivial, this is painful.

Not that it’s a surprise but I can’t get over how terrible LinkedIn is these days. It’s just recruiter and marketing spam. Why the fuck do we still use it?

Feels good finally submitting a PR on a tedious piece of work.

Also - and this isn't the first time I've said this and it won't be the last - the some-> threading macro rocks.

#clojure

Writing tests with Clojure is great. On the same level as writing tests with Perl, which is still the best framework I've used.

Admittedly, I haven't used tons of frameworks, but Perl's test culture is amazing, so it's a good yard stick to measure against.

#clojure #perl

Audioslave's first album is still 🔥

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eCE2cjdnTl8

Ugh. I hate dealing with locales.