Hi, I'm Ollie, a Clojure programmer from London. I've worked with a sprawling collection of technologies over my decade (or so) of programming, ranging from React to Ring. I'm most passionate about developer tooling, text editors and languages.

My free time is mainly occupied by my Neovim Clojure tooling, Conjure. You'll find posts in this blog covering topics such as D3 and React integration as well as building Neovim RPC clients in Rust, it's quite eclectic.

You can find ways to get in touch with me at the bottom of each page.

I hope you find something useful here. Have a great day!

2021

Recent video content

Mar 1, 2021

2020

Conversational software development

Jun 7, 2020

2019

Neovim configuration and plugins in Fennel (Lisp)

Nov 30, 2019

Getting started with Clojure, Neovim and Conjure in minutes

Nov 6, 2019

Clojure prepl for tool authors

Nov 4, 2019

Minimalistic blogging with Clojure and AsciiDoc

Oct 23, 2019

REPLing into projects with prepl and Propel

Sep 14, 2019

Exploring REPL tooling with socket prepl

Jul 16, 2019

Extending Neovim with any language (mostly Clojure)

Jun 28, 2019

Clojure socket prepl cookbook

Mar 22, 2019

2018

Wake word detection with Clojure (or Java)

Oct 12, 2018

Editing Clojure with Neovim

May 4, 2018

Finding new dependencies with Depot

Mar 29, 2018

Clojure and ClojureScript tests on Travis

Mar 29, 2018

Clojure and ClojureScript testing with the Clojure CLI

Mar 9, 2018

Clojure and ClojureScript nREPL with Clojure CLI

Mar 4, 2018

Clojure projects from scratch

Feb 26, 2018

2017

Hello, World!

Oct 27, 2017

Taming clojure.spec with expound

Oct 18, 2017

An introduction to transcriptor

Oct 6, 2017

Updating dependencies without CHANGES.md

Apr 5, 2017

The Collatz conjecture, visualised in Clojure

Apr 4, 2017

I’m on Linode now

Mar 28, 2017

2016

When projects rise from the grave

Nov 15, 2016

Getting Go Going

Oct 10, 2016

An introduction to ClojureScript

Feb 27, 2016

Working with multiple of lists in JavaScript

Feb 9, 2016

Asynchronicity and JavaScript

Jan 24, 2016

2015

Installing Arch Linux on a Dell XPS 13 (9350)

Nov 6, 2015

D3 within React the right way

Sep 9, 2015

My new prompt (oh-my-zsh)

Aug 3, 2015

Wrangling JavaScript with Vim

Jun 17, 2015

Lazy arrays in JavaScript

May 31, 2015

Things I learned about Docker the hard way

May 7, 2015

Some thoughts on Prolog

May 3, 2015

Some thoughts on Io

May 2, 2015

Some thoughts on Ruby

Apr 13, 2015

Making El-Get sync like vim-plug

Mar 3, 2015

Giving Emacs another chance

Mar 2, 2015

A quick reflection on Algorithms

Mar 1, 2015

Vim for people that don’t want to use it

Feb 1, 2015

If I wrote a text editor

Jan 15, 2015

Brainfuck VM in Clojure

Jan 12, 2015

Brainfuck VM in JavaScript

Jan 5, 2015

2014

Revisiting: Searching JavaScript arrays with a binary search

Dec 17, 2014

A JavaScript / Clojure mashup

Dec 15, 2014

My 2015 Bucket Set

Dec 13, 2014

I want to learn stuff and write about it over 2015

Dec 10, 2014

vim-expand, my second {plugin,bundle}!

Dec 10, 2014

My thoughts on React, Flux and Reflux

Dec 6, 2014

Essential Vim bundles for JavaScript and Clojure

Nov 21, 2014

Emacs: There and Back Again

Nov 16, 2014

Spacemacs: Emacs + Vim

Nov 6, 2014

Understanding Emacs errors

Nov 5, 2014

Angular feels like you’re always viewing a tiny piece of the puzzle

Nov 3, 2014

If you’re using sudo with npm you’re doing it wrong

Oct 29, 2014

Making package.el behave like Vundle

Oct 20, 2014

A week (or so) with Emacs

Sep 28, 2014

Emacs: A few hours after exposure

Sep 17, 2014

Why a lover of Vim is going to try Emacs

Sep 16, 2014

Building vim-netrw-signs: Into the VimL

Sep 3, 2014

Building vim-netrw-signs: Tooling

Sep 1, 2014

Building vim-netrw-signs: Introduction

Aug 11, 2014

Hello again, WordPress

Aug 6, 2014

Installing Vimdeck on Arch

Apr 26, 2014

Always remain a beginner

Mar 18, 2014

2013

Test private methods

Dec 13, 2013

Graph from scratch

Dec 5, 2013

Grabbing elements from the DOM

Sep 25, 2013

Do things that scare you

Sep 24, 2013

Classless JavaScript – Continued

Sep 22, 2013

Classless JavaScript

Sep 17, 2013

Handling concurrency and asynchronous JavaScript

Sep 11, 2013

Building for browsers in a terminal

Aug 8, 2013

Composing a framework from specialised libraries

Jul 28, 2013

Exporting through AMD, CommonJS and the global object

Jul 21, 2013

Use verbose naming in JavaScript

Jul 17, 2013

Tuples in JavaScript

Jul 12, 2013

Ranges, summation and predicates

Jul 2, 2013

Equipping Vim for JavaScript

Jun 29, 2013

Maps in JavaScript

Jun 12, 2013

Searching JavaScript arrays with a binary search

Jun 8, 2013

Implementing a message bus in JavaScript

Jun 5, 2013

Prototypical inheritance done right

Jun 1, 2013

2012

Faster JavaScript

Sep 1, 2012

Localizing times with xtz

May 21, 2012

Fun with negative margins

May 18, 2012

Writing a modular frontend

Mar 31, 2012

Portable JavaScript

Mar 24, 2012

Writing great JavaScript

Mar 14, 2012

Thoughts on JavaScript libraries and frameworks

Mar 9, 2012

Pure CSS toggle accordion

Mar 3, 2012

Sliced text effect

Feb 27, 2012

Getting started with LESS

Feb 25, 2012

Color in JavaScript

Feb 22, 2012

Inheritance in CSS

Feb 18, 2012

Multiple borders with CSS

Feb 15, 2012

Centering with the flexible box model

Feb 12, 2012

Introduction

Feb 11, 2012