balloneij

Location: Milwaukee, WI

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: C#, JS, Clojure, Java, SQL, Selenium, AngularJS, Azure

Résumé/CV: https://balloneij.com/resume.pdf

Email: see resume

Hey - my name is Isaac Ballone.

I'm passionate about programming, and I'm quick to learn. Most of my experience is in full-stack development, but my interests span all across the board.

I started in software by maintaining waveform code for military radios. I dug deep into legacy C++ code and closely followed strict specifications. From there, I found my way into B2B ecommerce, serving customers all around the world. Then I planned a break to dedicate myself to my own projects!

I released https://messagehighway.com, an SMS service written in Clojure for organizers to easily communicate with their users. I am becoming more involved in the open source community by sharing my libraries and packages on Github (https://github.com/balloneij). I am most proud of Slouch, which is the first idiomatic Clojure interface to Apache CouchDB :).

I love challenging work, I'm quick to learn, and I thrive working in enthusiastic teams.

If you think we would work well together, please reach out via email! You can find it on my resume.

Location: Milwaukee, WI Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: No Technologies: C#, JS, Clojure, Java, SQL, Selenium, AngularJS, Azure Résumé/CV: https://balloneij.com/resume.pdf Email: see resume

Hey - my name is Isaac Ballone.

I'm passionate about programming, and I'm quick to learn. Most of my experience is in full-stack development, but my interests span all across the board.

I started in software by maintaining waveform code for military radios. I dug deep into legacy C++ code and closely followed strict specifications. From there, I found my way into B2B ecommerce, serving customers all around the world. Then I planned a break to dedicate myself to my own projects!

I released https://messagehighway.com, an SMS service written in Clojure for organizers to easily communicate with their users. I am becoming more involved in the open source community by sharing my libraries and packages on Github (https://github.com/balloneij). I am most proud of Slouch, which is the first idiomatic Clojure interface to Apache CouchDB :).

I love challenging work, I'm quick to learn, and I thrive working in enthusiastic teams.

If you think we would work well together, please reach out via email! You can find it on my resume.

I think the misunderstandings are because they are targeting a specific audience. They aren't trying to teach you Clojure, Datomic, and Reagent because they assume you are already knowledgeable about it.

Clojure and Clojurescript are the same language (more or less). They just target the JVM or Javascript.

The author is mixing the frontend (Clojurescript and Reagent) code with the backend (Clojure and Datomic) code in the same expression. Then through their magical system and the beauty of lisp, they pull the frontend and backend parts out to serve them separately.

I still haven't tried it, but what if you downloaded the iOS apps on the M1? Wouldn't it be more containerized if you ran those apps from the phone "emulator"

Wow that's very helpful. I'll give it a shot next time I'm at work

Window's slow thread spawn time is incredibly noticeable when you use Magit in Emacs.

It runs a bunch of separate git commands to populate a detailed buffer. It's instantaneous on MacOS, but I have to sit and stare on Windows

Maybe they shouldn't use Slack as their backend /s

Sounded like a joke to me

I can understand that. I just like to tinker too much :). Going at it with a goal in mind would be a good idea

At what point does this get in the way of your programming? If there's always more to learn about the tool, I think that would bother me. I would like to like emacs, but the couple times I tried it it gets in the way because I don't know it well enough. Vim seems more appealing because there is less to know up-front, but it is still extensible