Fulcro has great dev tooling in Fulcro Inspect, however the part for exploring Pathom resolvers and attributes - its Index Explorer - is not compatible with Pathom 3. Here we learn what to do about it.

A language suit for purpose enables us to express our thoughts clearly and concisely. In programming, this language consists of our actual programming language, the libraries we use, and the abstractions we build. I believe that most of the incidental complexity in code stems from an unsuitable language. A misfit language forces you to speak in a lengthy and roundabout way, never quite getting at what you actually want to say.

Imagine you lacked the word "snow" and had to always say "white, fluffy, crystalline, frozen water". Now imagine you are writing instructions for waxing of cross-country skiis and you lack the words for snow, skiis, and the different kinds and states of snow. How verbose and incredibly hard to understand that would be! And this is exactly how most of our code looks. As Alan Kay puts it: "Most software today is very much like an Egyptian pyramid with millions of bricks piled on top of each other, with no structural integrity, but just done by brute force and thousands of slaves." [Kay] Let’s explore this idea further.

2022 has been a busy year both geopolitically ❤️🇺🇦 and locally. I have done a ton of Fulcro, played with Rust, got into managing projects and people.

This is my first whole year in Ardoq and I am still loving it. I came to fullfil my dream of being full-time Clojure developer and (aside of that, because I still love Clojure!) I am staying for the friendly, open "big family" culture and awesome people. I started the year by working on our slow, stepwise transition from Mongo to Postgres (I still might one day write about why we sadly did not pick Datomic in the end 😭). It was an important and exciting task. As changing the DB your business is built on, while everything keeps running, always is. Later I took over one of our teams, helping it deliver faster, smaller, more frequently. I have also been pulled into hiring and people management, which is not as much fun as Clojure but is far more important. I still have a great deal to learn here.

I am working on a Fulcro RAD application and want to display a RAD Form in a popup, to create a new customer for an order I am making. Normally Fulcro components are "composed all the way up to the root," including their query in the parent’s and getting their props from the parent. But that does not make sense here - I want a detached form I can pop up, fill, close, and go back to editing the order. I wasn’t able to figure out how to compose this without help and thus want to record the solution.

You can never really learn Clojure if you only focus on the language. Why? Because Clojure is in fact a synergetic combination of three things: the language itself, a way of working centered on interactive development, and structural editing support in editors for manipulating the code safely and efficiently. You cannot get the full benefits of Clojure unless you embrace all three.

I have a jsonb column in Postgres and I would like to update parts of it based on some other parts of the value. In Clojure I would have used update, which does new-value = f(old-value). How can I achieve something similar - i.e. deriving the new value from the old one - in Postgres? It turns out I can, with the help of a temporary table and jsonb_to_recordset that can turn a jsonb value into a table and row_to_json + jsonb_agg that can turn that back to jsonb. Let’s see how it works.

The Sign your Git commits with 1Password post is really useful but it does not tell you how to verify that signing works, how to troubleshoot it, or how to make it possible to verify the signatures locally. I will explain that here. The short story is that you need to set up gpg.ssh.allowedSignersFile and add your key there to be able to use git log --show-signature.

First of all, the setup as described in the blog post works and you can display the signature after having made a commit with git show --pretty=raw - notice the line with gpgsig …​ and those below it:

How (and why) do you use React.forwardRef in Fulcro? Let’s first explore ref. When you need access to the raw HTMLElement in React - f.ex. to call .focus on it - you need to create a Ref object^[1] (similar to Clojure’s atoms) and pass it to a React DOM element such as dom/div via the magical property :ref. React will then do something like "(reset! <the Ref> <the raw element>)" so that you can access the raw element in your code: (some→ <the Ref> .-current .focus). The :ref property is magical in the regard that it is "consumed" by React itself and not passed to the component. But what if you make a custom component and want it to be able to take a Ref object to attach it to its child DOM element? The simplest solution is to pass it under any other name than the reserved ref, which is exactly what this Fulcro examples does, using the custom :forwarded-ref. However some 3rd party higher-order components insist on passing the Ref down using the reserved ref property name. To make it possibly, React invented forwardRef: