Alex Miller writes about Clojure, Java, concurrency, and software conferences, and founded the Lambda Lounge group.
HN links it for Clojure posts, such as a rebuttal to claims that its community is against testing, and for code examples.
Sadly, one must investigate original sources, otherwise we get soundbite-knowledge. Here's a blogpost written by a core Clojure contributor that starts: "Occasionally I hear someone say that the Clojure community is against testing." (http://tech.puredanger.com/2013/08/31/clojure-and-testing/)
Or take this discussion on testing: "Finally, testing is greatly facilitated by design. Ideal testing takes some design constraints, some specification and turns it into tests as opposed to sort of embodying design inside tests. That's inside out. But again, that's something we have to work more at. Stems like Quick Check are interesting because you're basically starting with propositions about your system, which reflect the design and saying you write the tests, computer." (https://github.com/matthiasn/talk-transcripts/blob/master/Hickey_Rich/DesignCompositionPerformance.md)
Yes! I know the guy who started Lambda Lounge (Alex Miller http://tech.puredanger.com/about ) and heartily supported its founding; I spoke at it every once in a while; and my firm (Oasis Digital http://oasisdigital.com/ ) sponsors Lambda Lounge by paying for travel expenses for out-of-town speakers.
Lambda Lounge is the best software dev user group ever.
http://tech.puredanger.com/2007/09/18/spelunking/
http://debasishg.blogspot.com/2009/06/code-reading-for-fun-and-profit.html
http://www.oreillynet.com/ruby/blog/2006/05/post.html
(section about "making Mongrels stable and secure"
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=483824
http://blog.rubybestpractices.com/posts/gregory/005-code-reading-stdlib.html
This is an example of Peter Norvig's spellchecker written with core.async by Stuart Sierra (@stuartsierra):
https://gist.github.com/stuartsierra/5954022
This is an example of Rock Paper Scissors by Alex Miller (@puredanger):
http://tech.puredanger.com/2013/07/10/rps-core-async/
I wrote a response to this (http://tech.puredanger.com/2012/07/12/conference-expectations-from-speakers/) but I think mikeal's comment here gets at the heart of it better: https://gist.github.com/3098860#gistcomment-370439
Obligatory: http://tech.puredanger.com/2009/01/28/maven-adoption-curve/