Poor man's bitemporal data system in SQLite and Clojure

Oh ok, I’m out of the loop on it ;) thought it was some sort of ai hallucination.

All eleven thousand words were hand-typed. No AIs are used or abused in the making of any of my blog posts. (Because I write to think, because writing is nature's way of showing me how sloppy my thinking is. So it goes...)

Some of us keep htmx around as a momento. Just for old times sake.

"Because I write to think"

Hallelujah!!

Are you mixing it up with xhtml

If you don’t mind a tangent, this is close to my way of working out thoughts as well, including with code.

When I write code, it’s as much a cognitive tool as it is a tool to make things happen in the system. It develops thoughts as much as it develops system behavior.

Involving AI changes this quite a bit, but I feel like I’m making my way to a balance where it supports rather than replaces (or worse: disrupts) my cognitive processes.

Not at all, I'm all about tangents. The blog post itself is a tangent.

Programming is writing for me. So, yes I am the same... I need to type (or sometimes write it longhand), to make progress.

I gave LLMs a fair shake, but generative mode usage overwhelms my nervous system. I could use 'em, maybe, for pattern-recognition. But using an expressive language (Clojure) means I can eyeball my source code and/or grep through it to maintain a good enough view of my system. This also applies to most third-party code I use from the Clojure ecosystem. Libraries tend to be small (a few thousand lines of code), and I can skim-read through them quick enough.

I know there is a black art to it that one is supposed to learn, in order to get useful results, but so far, the incentive isn't strong enough for me.

So, hand typing / writing it is... might as well feel satisfied using my nice keyboard and little notebook, on my way to obsolescence. No?

> as a momento

FWIW I think you’re thinking of “memento”

     an object or item that serves to remind one of a person, past event, etc.; keepsake; souvenir.

Oddly it works as a neologism as well. "moment" conveying that it was short-lived or fleeting.

A memory or artifact of a short period of time.

> Oddly it works as a neologism as well

TIL, thank you :)