(File under: obscure hacks that I'm blogging mostly so I can re-create them in the future when I've forgotten what I did to make this work)

This is a neat hack I worked out a couple of months ago, while I was scanning in some recipes - I wanted a...

This isn't actually all that new - I hacked this together during a global day of coderetreat in Melbourne in 2012 - but I've mentioned it to a few people, and thought it'd be fun to put here:

Conway's Game of Life in Excel

Yes, it's a functioning...

So, last significant update was 2014 - and most of the posts before that were about clojure. (I used to have a personal blog as well at blog.sietsma.com but it's a bit of a fiction separating tech from life from people stuff! Besides, I almost never...

I'm moving everything to Google Domains as I don't see the value in paying for complex hosting. I'm using github pages for hosting static sites like this one - I'll see how it scales, it doesn't have unlimited scale but I don't think I get that many hits!

I'm planning to build a proper clojure snippets/cheat-sheet page, for all the things I do regularly, or want to encourage team members to do regularly. But it's easier to blog these to get them out rapidly, I'll try to format them nicely later.

This is a bit of an addendum on my previous post. - I wanted to convert some FreeMind mind-maps into other formats. FreeMind is pretty cool, especially as it's file format is fairly straightforward XML, so lots of other mind mapping programs, like XMind, will read and write FreeMind files.

"XML is like violence - if it doesn't work, use more"

Clojure is awesome for parsing and processing structured data. It has a wide range of functions for handling lists, maps (associative arrays), sets, and (if you really need them) objects.

One great example of the power of clojure for this sort of thing is processing xml. You may hate xml, you may use json or edn or yaml or anything else you can - but ultimately, xml is still all over the place, and if you need to handle complex xml or large xml, you might want to look at clojure.

My old blog at trouble.net.au seems to have died - and it hadn't been updated for ages.

So I'm starting a new one here, at http://blog.korny.info - there isn't much here right now, but I will work on that soon.

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