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Clojure for the Brave and True

Daniel Higginbotham · 2015 · 328 pages

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The bar next to each date shows how long ago it was said: 6d is days, 4yr is years.

Rakhim Davletkaliyev loved it
One of the best programming books I’ve read, and the best one about Clojure. The only issue I have with books like that is the nature of examples and exercises: they never have anything to do with the reality. This feels natural to a playful and fun book, but still, I would’ve loved something more realistic and maybe practical than hobbit vampires battle systems. Oh, and it has a good chapter o…

on rakhim.org · 16 Aug 2026

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That little bar

It says how long ago something was said, so you can tell last month from 2014 without doing the arithmetic. Full and green is recent; it drains and cools as the date gets older, and empties completely at about 6 years.

A striped bar means the date itself is an estimate — the source did not carry an exact one. An entry with no date at all gets no bar.