Gert Goet

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February 1
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Let's write a templating library πŸ”Ž Part 1: lexing

...and learn some Clojure in the process! πŸ‘½

Tags: #Clojure

As I was recently preparing a chrome extension for release, I found that the templating library, of all code, was causing problems. Turned out that nunjucks, the templating library in question, uses eval under the hood for performance reasons (as do most other templating libraries). To limit the risk of malicious code being executed near very powerful browser API's, modern extensions can simply no longer rely on eval and eval-like constructs. Great policy...Γ‘nd cumbersome!

March 21
Named capturing groups in Clojure

Tags: #Clojure, #regex

The previous article, "A better regex experience", discussed some ways to make regular expressions more readable, namely commenting and using named capturing groups.

March 14
Tag your Polar articles 🏷️

I've been using Polar.sh now for over a month and I really like it so far.
As I expect to be publishing many more articles on a wide variety of topics, I'd thought it would be handy to tag them and allow readers to find articles on related topics. And so the idea of tagging articles with custom html-comments was born.
This article explains how to tag articles yourself and get a nice tag overview page like this one.

It's just 3 straightforward steps. Let's go πŸš€.

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Tags: #Polar, #GitHub Actions, #eval/actions

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