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Aditya Athalye's Eval/Apply Blog

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Out here, I strive to "learn generously". My software specialties include "Full-systems" B2B SaaS development, and Functional Programming (especially Clojure). I also help software nerds write for fun, and burnout-free career growth.

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2026 2

  1. Side-stepping the Secretary Problem, unwittingly.
  2. A Consciousness is A Dedekind Cut

2025 8

  1. After "AI": Anticipating a post-LLM science & technology revolution
  2. Understanding not just Clojure's comp function by re-implementing it
  3. Poor man's bitemporal data system in SQLite and Clojure
  4. Riff: LLMs are Software Diamonds
  5. Keeping it Old-Tool: REPL habits of a grug-brained Clojure programmer
  6. Becoming a software A-Team via writing culture
  7. Systematically Terraforming a Brownfield of Cloud Infrastructure
  8. Here's to Quarter Two of the 21st century

2024 4

  1. Clojuring the web application stack: Meditation One
  2. Poor man's job runner with Clojure Agents
  3. Writing maketh the 10x Developer. More so the 10x development team.
  4. Halting AI

2023 13

  1. Riff: A "mycelium-clj" for the Clojure ecosystem?
  2. Emerging from dotemacs bankruptcy the hard way: integrating the IDE (feat. Clojure(Script))
  3. Emerging from dotemacs bankruptcy the hard way: getting about
  4. Emerging from dotemacs bankruptcy the hard way: the midway refactor
  5. Emerging from dotemacs bankruptcy the hard way: package management
  6. Emerging from dotemacs bankruptcy the hard way: init begins
  7. Emerging from dotemacs bankruptcy the hard way: Prelude
  8. What have you been curious about?
  9. Software demos as deliberate acts of serious play
  10. Cold restart whole system after total outage
  11. Bad Matrix
  12. Riff: Classifying Tools for Thought
  13. Animating Text Art in JavaScript

2022 16

  1. A Clojure view of "Mars Rover"
  2. Which Clojure codebases should I read? How and why?
  3. Shell ain't a bad place to FP: part 2/N: Functions as Unix Tools
  4. Why and How I use "Org Mode" for my writing and more
  5. n ways to FizzBuzz in Clojure
  6. Shell ain't a bad place to FP: part 1/N: McIlroy's Pipeline
  7. shite: static sites from shell (part 1/2) — feeling the html.energy
  8. Dismal Arithmetic in Dyalog APL and Clojure
  9. Shell ain't a bad place to FP: part 0/N: Introduction
  10. What makes Functional Programs and Systems "Functional"?
  11. Baby don't hurry, don't stop (feat. Melancholy)
  12. people > culture > values > strategy > technology
  13. Poor man's Reader App with Pandoc & Bash
  14. How To Be a Totally Natural Conference Speaker?
  15. Reframe Technical Debt as Software Debt. Treat it like a AAA-rated CDO.
  16. How To Not Die By A Thousand Cuts. Or, How To Think About Software Quality.

2021 2

  1. Systems, Scale, Value
  2. In the beginning, was the domain name