To be fair to newcomers: More people are active in the matrix channel nowadays. https://discourse.nixos.org/t/join-us-on-matrix-at-nix-nixos...

Transducers are awesome! They are so elegant. If one is interested in transducers I liked Ben Sless's intro: https://bsless.github.io/transducers-intro/ or in video "workshop form" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1sC71eb9Ox0

According to @killedbygoogle on twitter[1] it's not 10 years old.

[1] https://twitter.com/killedbygoogle/status/149184004005339136...

Currents used to be "Google+ for G Suite" but Google+ shut down in 2019 so it was renamed to Currents at that time. I don't think it was over a decade old though, that sounds like a previous product also named Currents that was shutdown prior to Google+ for G Suite being a thing.

And I miss the speed at which magit works on Linux, when I have to use Windows for development.

Same. Apparently magit is somewhat faster in WSL2, and eventually we'll get magit-libgit, hopefully.

I thought the self-destruct wouldn't run a script, but would actually be a physical attack on the laptop like the usb-killer v2 from a few years back.

As someone that was a hardcore Lisper (you could find me arguing that Scheme is not a Lisp, etc.) before adopting Clojure: I thought muddying the language with a new kind of syntax was terrible.

I don't suggest that this is what primarily drove the lack of adoption of other kind of braces but I, as a follower of the church of Lisp, had an immense dislike of the lack of purity.

In the end vector and map "syntax" is just the reader being more ergonomic in Clojure than in Common Lisp. (See https://clojure.org/reference/reader for details)

After I also got over my aversion of the Java ecosystem and just accepted that the jvm can be great without thinking Java is great, I'm all in on Clojure for the last few years. I think the language is fantastic and due to the huge amount of interop I can use my favorite language in settings that would be difficult otherwise. I've used Clojure on the web as ClojureScript, as backend as Clojure, on a ESP32 and reMarkable as ClojureScript and since relatively recent I can even accomplish scripting tasks with very good start-up times using babashka.

I'm a super happy camper and I've found my language for life. A pragmatic Lisp. (duck because stones are incoming.)

Well I mean CL is absolutely littered with pragmatism it came out of a standard committee after all. In many ways I'd argue clojure is far more opinionated, it's just an opinion that might more closely align with modern sensibilities.

I installed koreader and I'm quite happy with reading long books that way.

koreader is my goto reader on RM2 too. If only the device had a smaller size.

I use 2 pages view in landscape mode. It's better, still does not provide the comfort Kindle Paper White offers.

Also some back/frontlight could be helpful.

Isn't Phoenix merely rebranding already existing projects like Jitsi Meet and matrix.org?

If not, where can this project be publicly inspected?

This is why I made the distinction "open-source based". The project isn't simply rebranding though, it builds solutions for customers based on open source components (which is a step in the correct direction). I would like all the repositories to be public, too, but we're not there yet.

I saw on phoenix-werkstatt.de that there are actual contributions back upstream. Even if it appears to not be a Dataport employee, at least some of the funds of the government are going towards improving the projects for everyone. Good stuff.

Unfortunately, at the moment even code access for other public institutions is buried behind many layers of bureaucracy but I have been promised they will start to open up soon enough.

I use Clojure quite a bit and I don't write anything imperatively.

But passing contexts I can see. There is a not uncommon pattern that one can use of keeping a large map with state in it.

However it's completely compatible with pure functional programming.

Another Linux datapoint, X1 Carbon 6th Generation, daily use.

  SMART/Health Information (NVMe Log 0x02)                                                                                                                                                            
  Critical Warning:                   0x00   
  Temperature:                        35 Celsius
  Available Spare:                    100%
  Available Spare Threshold:          10%                                                           
  Percentage Used:                    25%
  Data Units Read:                    22,242,132 [11.3 TB]
  Data Units Written:                 74,693,212 [38.2 TB]
  Host Read Commands:                 540,582,518                                                   
  Host Write Commands:                1,857,635,922                            
  Controller Busy Time:               5,131                                                         
  Power Cycles:                       884                                                           
  Power On Hours:                     3,497                                                                                                                                                           
  Unsafe Shutdowns:                   261                                                           
  Media and Data Integrity Errors:    0      
  Error Information Log Entries:      882       
  Warning  Comp. Temperature Time:    0         
  Critical Comp. Temperature Time:    0        
  Temperature Sensor 1:               35 Celsius
  Temperature Sensor 2:               37 Celsius