Strange Loop

Moldable Live Programming with Clerk

Clerk is an open source programmer's assistant for Clojure that combines the advantages of notebooks like Jupyter, Smalltalk-style Moldable Development, and using one's favorite editor.

In this workshop, you'll learn how you can use Clerk to complement the REPL. We'll embark on a tour through the use cases enabled by it – from data analysis, generative art, moldable documentation to small local-first apps – all with very little code.

You will learn how Clerk works under the hood and how you can leverage its open toolbox design to extend it to your problem at hand. This workshop is intended for intermediate and advanced Clojure programmers.

Martin Kavalar

Nextjournal

Martin Kavalar is a programmer with a degree in Physics working at the intersection of science and industry. 
With his small team, he has been building Sauspiel, an online community for the traditional German card game Schafkopf, for fifteen years.
 They are now leveraging that experience to build NextJournal, to facilitate collaboration, reproducibility and reuse in science.

Jack Rusher

Applied Science Studio

Jack Rusher's long career as a computer scientist includes time at Bell Labs/AT&T Research and a number of successful startups. His current work focuses on the deep relationship between art and technology.