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An opinionated list of excellent Clojure learning materials

These resources (articles, books, and videos) are useful when you're starting to learn the language, or when you're learning a specific part of the language. This an opinionated list, no doubt. I've compiled this list from writing and teaching Clojure over the last 10 years.

• 🔴 Mandatory (for both beginners and intermediates)
• 🟩 For beginners
• 🟨 For intermediates

Table of contents

1. Getting into the language

pesterhazy

Chaining promises

Chaining promises in ClojureScript is best done using the thread-first macro, ->. Here's an example of using the fetch API:

(-> (js/fetch "/data")
    (.then (fn [r]
             (when-not (.-ok r)
               (throw (js/Error. "Could not fetch /data")))
             (.json r)))

finalfantasia

1. Create an app following the official Shadow-CLJS Quick Start instructions.
2. Modify shadow-cljs.edn

;; shadow-cljs configuration
{:source-paths
 ["src/dev"
  "src/main"
  "src/test"]

 ;; ADD - CIDER middleware for nREPL (required by fireplace.vim)

huntrar

Arch Linux Full-Disk Encryption Installation Guide

This guide provides instructions for an Arch Linux installation featuring full-disk encryption via LVM on LUKS, booting a signed unified kernel image with systemd-boot on UEFI systems.

Following the main installation are further instructions to harden against Evil Maid attacks via UEFI Secure Boot custom key enrollment and a self-signed boot loader and kernel image.

Tested in October 2026 on an HP ZBook Ultra G1a and in a QEMU/OVMF virtual machine: systemd 262, mkinitcpio 42.2, cryptsetup 2.8.8, linux 7.2.9, sbctl 0.18.

Preface

You will find most of this information pulled from the Arch Wiki and other resources linked thereof.

reborg

Rich Already Answered That!

A list of commonly asked questions, design decisions, reasons why Clojure is the way it is as they were answered directly by Rich (even when from many years ago, those answers are pretty much valid today!). Feel free to point friends and colleagues here next time they ask (again). Answers are pasted verbatim (I've made small adjustments for readibility, but never changed a sentence) from mailing lists, articles, chats.

How to use:

• The link in the table of content jumps at the copy of the answer on this page.
• The link on the answer itself points back at the original post.

Table of Content

noprompt

(ns foo.core
  (:refer-clojure :exclude [slurp]))

(defmacro slurp [file]
  (clojure.core/slurp file))

;; In CLJS

(ns bar.core
  (:require [foo.core :include-macros true :refer [slurp]]))