First Month Reflection
With these 10 days passing, I am now done with a full month! I was able to stay at it every day of the 30.
I got a bit more familiar with the Clojure standard library, made my own separate site with it, and started dabbling with macros, which is the newest thing to me so far. I am getting more and more fascinated with Clojure in terms of its standard library - it lets you do so much with just functions and simple data structures, and you do it in a really concise and elegant way. Also, I am keeping a steady rate of writing articles.
Where am I going with this? I have no idea. Maybe I'll overthink about it in a future blog.
Day 21 / 11 Aug
I will try to develop a blog using Clojure. So, I started to search around for a Clojure-based static site generator. My current decision is to start with something minimal, which is just a Markdown parser instead of a full SSG boilerplate. I'll write the base HTML and CSS myself and use Clojure to convert Markdown to HTML. I'll also use ClojureScript if I need any JS (I may not).
I also started writing an article draft.
Day 22 / 12 Aug
Read chapter 7 in the book. Also, laid the foundation for my blog and wrote a little in an article draft.
Day 23 / 13 Aug
Started reading chapter 8 in the book. Then, I started writing some Clojure for the blog. I discovered some limitations in the raw Markdown parsing approach and start gradually patching them up.
Day 24 / 14 Aug
My blog is now almost complete! I successfully migrated the completed blog articles on Hashnode to the Clojure project. I also added articles from my old blogs and did the necessary editing to be compatible with the Markdown parser.
Day 25 / 15 Aug
I completed and published a Clojure vs JS article: Functional Programming and made a near-complete version of my blog.
Day 26 / 16 Aug
Worked more on the blog to make it more presentable in terms of the home page and content listing. It is now hosted at https://wipdev.netlify.app/
Day 27 / 17 Aug
There were some minor content edits I needed to do on the blog's home page. I also got back to reading the book because I left it for a couple of days now.
Day 28 / 18 Aug
I started writing a new blog article. Then, I discovered Exercism, which seems like a nice place to practice Clojure. So, I did a couple of them.
Day 29 / 19 Aug
Completed and published Collaboration on GitHub: a Practical Intro. Also, I did some problems in Exercism.
Day 30 / 20 Aug
Finished chapter 8 of the book and did a problem in Exercism.