#Code

Pleasures of Programming

Mar 20, 2026 - 1500 Words

I have a confession to make, I still haven’t used Claude Code. I have, at times, used LLM Chatbots to help answer questions and even generate some code for me, in a similar way that I would have copy/pasted from stack exchange before LLMs. But I haven’t set up Claude yet.

Clojure performance considerations

Dec 20, 2025 - 2300 Words

One of the nice things about the clojure programming language is how flexible built-in functions are. Like python, clojure is not typed, so you can spend less time worrying about how your functions/methods handle types, and more thinking about the actual data that is being worked on. In this way, it is more of a ‘data-first’ kind of language.

Gemini Chess

Jun 7, 2024 - 600 Words

I’ve had a go at making a two-player chess game for Gemini. If you want to try it out it is available at the link below. There is also a version of wordle there, though I made this before I realised that there is already a much better wordle clone available on gemini, Wordo.

OFFLFIRSOCH 2024 - Flights

Mar 26, 2024 - 300 Words

In response to Solerpunk’s 2024 OFFLine-FIRst SOftware CHallenge, I wrote a command line script for looking up flight ‘information’ offline.

Spool Five

#Code

Pleasures of Programming

Clojure performance considerations

Gemini Chess

OFFLFIRSOCH 2024 - Flights