A couple of interesting articles about debugging. Debugging doesn’t seem to get a lot of attention when people are taught about programming, I assume you’re supposed to acquire this skill by osmosis, but it is actually one of those skills that should receive much greater attention because it’s one of those that separates highly productive developers from, well, not so productive ones.

Why I’m Productive in Clojure. I’ve long been a fan of Lisp and Lisp-like languages, even though I wasn’t originally that happy with having Lisp inflicted on me when I was at university. Because it was weird and back then I didn’t much appreciate non-mainstream languages. These days I do because that’s where you usually find better expressiveness and ideas supposedly too strange for mainstream languages. I guess that makes me a language hipster.