Software Projects
My Own
Splint
Splint is a Clojure linter focused on style and code shape. Inspired by rubocop, I wrote this after being frustrated with contributing style lints to the primary Clojure linter clj-kondo, which is more focused on static analysis. It's quite fast and fairly comprehensive, covering a vast number of style and "probably incorrect" linting rules, without performing the same in-depth analysis as clj-kondo.
Lazytest
Alessandra Sierra wrote a successor to the built-in Clojure test "framework" clojure.test back in 2010, but quickly abandoned it. I came across it in 2023, found that while the code was half-formed, the foundational ideas were superb. Lazytest is the culmination of that work, a proper Clojure BDD test framework that supports first-class test suites, proper separation of assertions and reporting, extensions, and doctests.
cond+
I learned Racket before I learned Clojure, and while I agree with most of the design decisions in Clojure, the changes to cond are among my least favorite. Because I missed them, I wrote cond-plus to let me continue to use Racket's cond in my Clojure code.
fluent-clj
Project Fluent is a research project by Mozilla, attempting to build a new localization system that better supports translators and writing natural-sounding translations.
In my work on jnet, I spent a fair amount of time dealing with issues with the Clojure-based translation system we were using, growing increasingly frustrated by weird syntax errors and dodgy issues. Project Fluent is a natural (heh) fit for jnet as it allows us to keep our translations separated by file, give each translation a proper name, and pass in named arguments.
To support this, I wrote fluent-clj, a Clojure & Clojurescript wrapper around existing java and javascript libraries. fluent-clj unifies the APIs and includes a formatter, which helps keep translations neat. It is currently in use in jnet, serving 10 different languages and providing thousands of lines of translations.
Open Source
Netrunner
jinteki.net (jnet) is an open source and free implementation of the asymmetric card game Netrunner (formerly Android: Netrunner). I joined the project in early 2018 when I was bored between jobs, learning Clojure to implement some new cards that had been released. That year, FFG cancelled the official game and the community-led Null Signal Games came together to continue working on it, and during that turmoil most of the jnet team stopped contributing. I became the lead dev, and worked on it extensively until the birth of my second kid in 2022, and now I am closer to a Dev Alumni, mostly reading PRs and contributing feedback to the cadre of devs who continue to work on it more actively.
fixture-riveter
Back in 2020, I was working at a typescript job that had a ton of orm-style objects. We had built a janky set of helper functions to create scenarios, but they were hard to manage and wrangle. In a moment of clarity, I remembered factory_bot from my days at a Ruby On Rails job, and knew we could do similar. I spent probably too much time working on this, mirroring the factory_bot api and functionality closely, wrangling the typescript types to handle each variation and input (instead of finding a more typescript-natural api), and even solving a long-standing bug from the factory_bot library. Of all the things I contributed to that job, this is my favorite and the one I am most proud of. I no longer work there so I cannot speak to it nowadays but I look back on it fondly.