Moldova is like the Shire. Green hills, good wine, nice people. Not much to see but there's something peaceful about it. Happy to call it home.

For improving rhythm I really like this book by Uwe Kropinski and highly recommend it:

https://www.kropinski.com/english/timing-problems-getting-in...

Yes, and if I may add a few more libraries that are actively maintained, with wonderful documentation and great functionalitY -- next.jdbc for SQL, Timbre for logging, Sente for websockets, Reitit for routing, Carmene for Redis, re-frame for frontend state management, Datascript for frontend DB, and many more.

One such project is REAPER. It includes a lot of useful VST plugins. https://www.reaper.fm/download.php

Squating... The sitting toilets that we have now are not good for the body.

I see REPL driven development more akin to writing music. I pick up the guitar and start playing. I can work on a small fragment and improve it until it sounds good to me. Or I can play the whole song. At all times I have instant feedback and I can hear what I'm working on.

In the case of the REPL you are playing your program. You can play a file, a function, or half of a function. Until it sounds right.

I lack the skill to use music notation for composition, so I rely on my instrument to give me feedback. And I lack the skill to execute the program in my head before I press compile, that's why I rely on the REPL.

Another option for generating gradients is using cosine based pallets [1]. And a nice implementation [2].

[1] https://iquilezles.org/www/articles/palettes/palettes.htm

[2] https://docs.thi.ng/umbrella/color/#cosine-gradients

You posted on a full moon day, and this is exactly the vibe I get from your projects. Thank you for the wonderful libraries! I've been using thi.ng/geom and thi.ng/color before and the code is easy to use and modify.

Both frontend and backend written in Clojure. The code can be found at https://github.com/descryptors

Feedback and suggestions welcome!

I like the way he hints at singularity in Rainbows End.

Singularity was also a subject in Marooned in Realtime.