Michael Fogus's Blog

Whereby I talk about 18XX -- the fantastic family of economic tabletop games...

Whereby I talk about programming language development and why, and where it might go...

Whereby I talk about an under-appreciated technique in Clojure where function arities serve as a pseudo-protocol...

I was fortunate to appear on the April 22, 2025 episode of the Apropos podcast...

As an attempt to branch out with my writing, I've taken to working on various fiction and non-fiction pieces...

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Great things and people that I discovered, learned, read, met, etc. in 2024. No particular ordering is implied. Not everything is new. also: see the lists from 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011 and 2010 Great posts | articles | talks read/watched ELITE: The game that couldn’t be […]

Prior to [discovering Clojure back in 2007](https://blog.fogus.me/2007/10/24/link...), I was a full-time Java programmer. This was long before method handles, method references, lambda expressions, and invokedynamic, so viewing Java through a functional programming lens was not second-nature to me. Regardless, during my early Clojure explorations I fully expected code like the following to “just work”: (defn […]

Prior to discovering Clojure back in 2007, I was a full-time Java programmer. This was long before method handles, method references, lambda expressions, and invokedynamic, so viewing Java through a functional programming lens was not second-nature to me. Regardless, during my early Clojure explorations I fully expected code like the following to “just work”: (defn […]