Re: Alex's talk -- he mentioned on the ClojureStream podcast that part of the talk will be how they applied Rich's Design In Practice principles to some of the Clojure 1.12 stuff and how many iterations and variants they had to discuss and compare.
Re: Portal -- I _love_ Portal and have been using it daily for years! Having a visual, navigable display of results, instead of a plain text REPL, is a huge step forward in my opinion. I have developed a workflow based on two Portal windows inside VS Code, with a combination of custom REPL snippets and Joyride to allow me to "drive" Portal via hotkeys in my editor.
Re: Alex's talk -- he mentioned on the ClojureStream podcast that part of the talk will be how they applied Rich's Design In Practice principles to some of the Clojure 1.12 stuff and how many iterations and variants they had to discuss and compare.
Re: Portal -- I _love_ Portal and have been using it daily for years! Having a visual, navigable display of results, instead of a plain text REPL, is a huge step forward in my opinion. I have developed a workflow based on two Portal windows inside VS Code, with a combination of custom REPL snippets and Joyride to allow me to "drive" Portal via hotkeys in my editor.
I liked the post; like you I think I will need to join in on the fun remotely. Btw, your link to buy tix seems to link to Heart of Clojure.