Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.
― Haruki Murakami, What I Talk About When I Talk About Running
EuroClojure 2017 talk: Intro to Probabilistic Programming and Clojure’s Anglican
At this year’s EuroClojure I gave a talk about probabilistic programming with Clojure, using the Anglican probabilistic programming system. Abstract: Probabilistic Programming Systems aim to merge general purpose programming with probabilistic modelling. They provide powerful statistical inference and thus allow developers to focus on the modelling with tools and environments they are comfortable with. These […]
Microservices, Music and More @ Futurice Beer&Tech
A few weeks ago Christoph and I gave an introduction to MicroServices at Futurice‘s Beer&Tech sessions in Berlin. The idea was to collect our impressions from the DevOps conference 2015 in Berlin. I think we covered a lot of ground here from business value to technology and some simple live examples. The tools we introduced […]
ClojureBridge Berlin and Clojure learning groups
Recently I had the chance to be a coach at ClojureBridge Berlin. You might not have heard about this event before, but maybe you know RailsBridge. ClojureBridge’s mission is: ClojureBridge aims to increase diversity within the Clojure community by offering free, beginner-friendly Clojure programming workshops for women. Of course I did not hesitate to volunteer […]
Mundane Clojure for Mortals: Building a simple Web API
A while ago I did a small introduction to building a simple REST API with Clojure from scratch at Futurice in Berlin. While preparing that, I did create a small tutorial and demo project to follow along (GitHub, Tutorial). The presentation was recorded on video and you can check it out right now, right here: […]
First marathon at risk: One month to go
In my last post I told myself “not to overdo” it. Sadly exactly this happened. I have lots of trouble with shin splints (medial). 🙁 What happened? The last long run, which went well was on 19th August. Previously I was running over 30km multiple times on the weekend. Obviously this was too much. I […]
Second month of training for first marathon
About two month ago I did sign up for my first marathon and started to focus my training for that event. In my previous post I defined a simple way to measure my progress towards the goal, running the marathon distance. Another month has passed and here is my updated report. It was not a […]
First marathon: Resume after first month of training
Roughly one month ago I did sign up for my first marathon. At that time I also wrote a post about how I will prepare for that. So let’s have fun and create some additional pressure by publishing the results so far. How to measure progress The main goal is to be able to run […]
Project 42195: Training for the first marathon
Running a marathon has been on my list for quite a while now. The past 1.5 years I did focus on learning Sambo (russian martial arts). But I just did sign up for the Frankfurt Marathon in October. What are the goals? The primary goal is to finish. In general this probably should be the […]