HN user

LouDNL

43 karma

Clojure, Java, Python, C, Reverse Engineering, OSINT, Red Team

Posts1
Comments39
View on HN
github.com 3y ago

Updated Version of Overtone At-At for Clojure

LouDNL
1pts0
Ask HN: Any interesting niche hobbies? 3 months ago

2 years ago I wanted an easy way to listen to commodore 64 sid tunes on my computer without the need of powering on my c64 everytime but with the benefits of having real sid chips. After doing some research I concluded that the available uab hardware sid boards were either unavailable or outdated. This started my journey to create my own usb board, USBSID-Pico. Currently at version 1.3 of the pcb with an improved version and pro version in development.

The board is supported in various commodore 64 emulators, sid trackers and web players. It also supports midi (still in active development) and even has an onboard embedded emulator.

As far as I know there are now approximately 300+ boards in the hands of enthusiasts. Ranging from users, chiptunes lovers, demo creators to musicians. The board and it's firmware are open source, and the board is available at PCBWay and via my Tindie. Just yesterday I shipped 11 new boards to new owners across the globe.

From personal need to niche hobby supplying fun to other enthusiasts in just 2 years

0ThreadHN
Bringing Clojure programming to Enterprise (2021) 4 months ago

It's good to read that Clojure is getting more and more exposure. I write Clojure fpr my day job and wouldn't want to swap it for anything. The community is small but very helpfull and easy reachable. The learning curve is steap indeed, but very much worth it!

0ThreadHN
Do developers lose most of their time to tech debt and broken tooling? 6 months ago

For me as the only developer at the company I work for it's either having to break creative (thinking) flow to switch to anything else that is expected or asked from me by my employer/colleagues, my own thought process wandering off due to unexpected hickups / issues I come across and have to fix first, or not remembering why or how I made something the way I did. On top of that it's also having to figure out my predecessors code descriptions.

0ThreadHN
Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (June 2025) 1 year ago

This month I released USBSID-Pico v1.3 pcb via PCBWay and Retro8BitStore and yesterday firmware version v0.5.0-BETA. The new pcb now supports mixed MOS6581 / MOS8580 chips (voltage) at the same time and new firmware brings a lot of tweaks and improvements making Commodore64 digitunes play better on Windows.

USBSID-Pico is a RPi Pico (RP2040/W RP2350/W) based board for interfacing one or two MOS SID chips and/or hardware SID emulators over (WEB)USB with your computer, phone, ASID supporting player or USB midi controller.

More info at https://github.com/LouDnl/USBSID-Pico

0ThreadHN
LSP client in Clojure in 200 lines of code 1 year ago

Clojure isn't dying, it's a niche language with a very much alive community. I admit that jobs are limited, but the ones that do exist are very interesting. My day job consists solely of programming in Clojure, so no, dead is not the correct word here.

0ThreadHN
Why is Jepsen written in Clojure? 3 years ago

You obviously dont code in Clojure for a loving. Clojure's eco system and community is well maintained. Clojure comes in multiple flavors where Clojure and Clojurescript are 2 mainly used. Ofcourse there is also Babashka, Scittle etc., but all derive from clj or cljs. As far as development tooling it all depends on the platform you code on and what ide suits your needs. Emacs, Neovim, VScode, IntelliJ for example have different tooling. Build systems differ and suits ones needs, for clj deps.edn is the current lost used followed by leiningen. For cljs there is shadowcljs and many more. I agree that as new comer this can be quite overwhelming, but the community is great and always helpful. I program for a living and have done so in multiple languages, Clojure is by far my most favorite.

0ThreadHN
Can you be radicalised by watching 'Great British Railway Journeys'? 3 years ago

Read the article and without reading the books that are mentioned I believe it's a writers rant. But that doesnt mean you could not be radicalised by reading books. It is more then just that, radicalisation is due to external influence and internal unrest and or being angry about something and finding like minded people.

0ThreadHN
Job interviews are a nightmare – and only getting worse 4 years ago

Imho this depends purely on the type of company you apply at. Do your own duedilligigence before applying and be sure to remember that any company should be glad you apply and not the other way around. If in the end the job doesnt make you happy its you who pulls the shortest straw.

0ThreadHN