Jean-Jacques Strydom
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Jean-Jacques Strydom
@psionicalch.com
Lisp, Scheme & Linux Enthusiast

My DMs are always open. I might not necessarily respond but you should at least try.
Got the runtime API designed. Outside of timelines, full scroll trigger, and full stagger support everything else in GSAP core should be covered.

#wordpress #gutenberg #gsap
October 18, 2025 at 10:15 AM
The plan is to wrap GSAP in a runtime that uses data-* attributes. So something akin to AlpineJS or HTMX but specifically for animations.

Then expose the data-* attributes in WordPress as attributes on the custom block.

I plan to even have timelines working.

#wordpress #webdev #gsap
Just got done creating a proof-of-concept custom WordPress block.

I wanted all the power of GSAP in WordPress but I refuse to pay to for it. So I ended up paying in time. 🤣

#webdev #wordpress #gsap
October 16, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Just got done creating a proof-of-concept custom WordPress block.

I wanted all the power of GSAP in WordPress but I refuse to pay to for it. So I ended up paying in time. 🤣

#webdev #wordpress #gsap
October 16, 2025 at 8:45 PM
Crafting Interpreters by Robert Nystrom

#programming
August 28, 2025 at 2:14 PM
What on earth is HR smoking?

"like a tree ready for wiring to discover the bonsai within" 🤣

Also, why is Python getting used for the frontend!?

#jobhunting
August 27, 2025 at 12:58 PM
Recursion + Collector functions are absolutely breaking my brain 💀🤯

#programming #lisp #scheme
August 26, 2025 at 12:11 PM
The cool thing about Lisp is that it's naturally obfuscated 🤣

#programming #scheme #lisp
August 23, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Recursion for the win!

#programming #scheme #lisp
August 22, 2025 at 3:21 PM
Programming languages are just Turing-complete configuration formats for their compilers/interpreters that tell them what to generate.

#programming
August 22, 2025 at 2:59 PM
I am blown away by "The Little Schemer" by Daniel P. Friedman and Matthias Felleisen.

Instead of taking the typical academic approach of throwing definitions at you it trains your pattern recognition via small questions and answers.

#lisp #scheme #programming
August 19, 2025 at 2:46 PM
On today's episode of bot-watch news: "Bots are beating cancer". Brought to you by Threads' algorithm

#bots
August 16, 2025 at 12:49 PM
"Any sufficiently complicated C or Fortran program contains an ad hoc, informally-specified, bug-ridden, slow implementation of half of Common Lisp." - Greenspun's tenth rule of programming
August 15, 2025 at 12:18 PM
Reposted by Jean-Jacques Strydom
I got nerd sniped by @tsoding.bsky.social.
Site generation with C templates: hanion.dev/post/mite/
August 9, 2025 at 6:12 PM
It's reasons like this that I believe learning programming from a generalist approach is so extremely important. You get to see many different view points. You get to see the same problem solved in dozens of unique ways.

Specialization leads to tunnel vision.

#programming
I never considered creating a router as nested arrays. I mean it's a good way to internally represent a router but I'm so used to seeing routers in a more OOP style of programming where you create a router instance.

#webdev #clojure
August 7, 2025 at 4:54 PM
I never considered creating a router as nested arrays. I mean it's a good way to internally represent a router but I'm so used to seeing routers in a more OOP style of programming where you create a router instance.

#webdev #clojure
August 7, 2025 at 4:53 PM
"To make an analogy with mathematics, understanding a few fundamental theorems and their implications is far more useful than rote memorization of specific formulas." - Web Development with Clojure

#programming
August 6, 2025 at 4:11 PM
August 6, 2025 at 10:48 AM
The more programming languages I learn the less unique they all seem. It's just the same features and implementations. Only thing that really changes is the syntax.

It makes arguments over which programming language is the best seem EXTREMELY stupid.

#programming
August 4, 2025 at 2:16 PM
The interop between the Clojurescript REPL and the browser devtools console is blowing my mind!

I can create new variables in the console and they are immediately available inside the REPL and vice versa. Without the need to reload or anything.

#clojure #webdev
August 2, 2025 at 11:08 AM
Why even have ads in your product if all the ads are about removing the ads from your product!?
July 31, 2025 at 7:05 PM
Who needs JSX when you have ✨hiccup✨?

(This is gonna require some getting used to 🙈)

#WebDevelopment
July 31, 2025 at 2:12 PM
JavaScript is a compile-to-js language

#webdev
July 30, 2025 at 1:07 PM
Of all the names that Clojure could have used for the functions that read from and write to resources 🤣

#clojure
July 28, 2025 at 12:08 PM
Ah so Go created it. Clojure upgraded it.

(Screenshot from www.braveclojure.com)
July 26, 2025 at 3:11 PM