Day 97 Planning 2019 and 4Clojure
Planning activities for 2019, including ClojureBridge London events.
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Day 96 - User Feedback session & 4Clojure exercises
User feedback session for an interesting AI product client that I will be involved with in the new year.
Sometimes listening is a challenge.
Day 95 - AI startup team lunch - 4Clojure exercises
Team lunch with the team I will be working with in the new year.
The venue was a very basic restaurant but with nice food. There are some interesting dynamics in the team, so will need to figure out how to work with them.
Day 94 - Coaching and Emacs talk at Linux in London
Cycled into London today on the Brompton and my Tannus tyres still going strong. I finally got a moment to clean them too.
Another very productive coaching day in Wagamama today, covering the inside out approach to writing Clojure. I pushed 3 out of the 6 exercise we completed to Github.
Cycled over to SkillsMatter to give (finish writing) my Emacs for your digital life talk for Linux in London community.
Code from today
Day 93 - Clojure Study group - ClojureScript reagent website with SVG
Extremely tired today.
Code from today
Day 92 - Clojure Hack day
Clojure Hack day was quite a small event however it gave us a chance to work on our own projects. Worked with Mani on some basic Clojure skills. Als worked on building a simple ClojureScript React style website with our primary school student (accompanied by her mom)
I also did a little more work with Scalable Vector Graphics, in the system monitor project I started a while ago.
SkillsMatter were kind enough to invite us to join in the event, however, there was some issue with food and SkillsMatter did initially exclude the Clojure group although eventually we were included in the event again.
Day 91 - Chasing references and 4Clojure
Chasing references for my next potential employers
Quick write up about 4Clojure exercise #16 - Hello world.
Day 90 - What will be my next role
Considering my options for my next role.
There have been a lot of really interesting roles I have interviewed for.
There is one that seems to require the widest use of my skills.
Day 89 - Meeting Clojure data science company
A second meeting with Cervest, an interesting data science company supported by Clojure tooling.
Also met with All Street Research who are looking to disrupt the financial industry and building systems in Clojure.
Solved #9 and #10 challenges from 4Clojure on the train home.
Day 88 - Clojure driven finance startup and 4Clojure
Another 4Clojure challenge, this time #9 covering sets in Clojure. I like working with sets and like other main data structures they can be used like a function.
I had what will probably be the weirdest and most pointless interview of my life. The first half started well and I quickly built a positive rapport with the founder and CTO. They had ambitious plants.
The interview quickly went weird as soon as I met the 'developers' who were interviewing me. They both projected inexperience and one was incredibly nervous all the way through.
The 'lead' developer decided to completely change the approach of the interview without actually letting me know in advance. I had submitted a solution to a take-home test which I had spend a few hours on, but they completely ignored it and wouldn't let me walk through it.
A lunch with a another company with Clojure roles, cycling to and from the meeting on the Bromptom.