cemerick

My name is Chas Emerick, but I'm known online in most places as cemerick, including on freenode irc and Twitter.

Please excuse the dreadful shambles as I migrate publishing platforms.

My (current) work

pdfQL via PDFDATA
PDFxStream via Snowtide

Posts here

Nov 13 2020 "Acceptable Losses", my letter to Massachusetts COVID-19 policymakers
Mar 26 2017 Re: the primacy of economics
Dec 29 2016 Commercial autonomous vehicles should be taxed
Dec 29 2016 @cemerick
Dec 7 2016 RIP Anthony Grimes
Jan 11 2016 A humane Real Names Policy
Aug 25 2015 PDFDATA.io
Aug 19 2015 I built an app to save my Mom's life
Aug 5 2015 Living with yaks
Jul 16 2015 Empathy and optimism
Mar 20 2015 My Mom has Multiple Sclerosis, and needs a new wheelchair van
May 12 2014 Distributed Systems and the End of the API (meta)
Apr 29 2014 Theorizing the Web, an experience
Mar 1 2014 Buy a signed copy of 'Clojure Programming', help the EFF!
Nov 18 2013 Results of the 2013 State of Clojure & ClojureScript survey
Nov 5 2013 2013 State of Clojure & ClojureScript Survey
Jun 19 2013 My Mom has Multiple Sclerosis
May 6 2013 [ANN] @IMHO
Feb 15 2013 100% time
Dec 20 2012 Cargo-culting to success and understanding
Aug 31 2012 Consulting services & expertise-for-hire
Aug 14 2012 Mostly Lazy, back in the saddle
Aug 6 2012 Results of the 2012 State of Clojure survey
Aug 2 2012 PDFTextStream now available free (as in beer)
Jul 19 2012 2012 State of Clojure survey
Jul 10 2012 On the stewardship of mature software
Jun 19 2012 What sucks about Clojure…and why you'll love it anyway
May 2 2012 Starting Clojure (mk. 2)
Apr 26 2012 A refresh of Clojure Atlas
Apr 11 2012 Friend: an extensible authentication and authorization library for Clojure Ring webapps and services
Mar 13 2012 Untitled
Feb 27 2012 'Clojure Programming' book finished
Feb 3 2012 Untitled
Nov 8 2011 Introducing: Mostly λazy (a Clojure podcast)
Nov 8 2011 Ambrose has received his Clojure "scholarship", thanks to you.
Oct 26 2011 Enabling rich(er) interactions in the Clojure REPL
Oct 17 2011 À la carte configuration in Clojure APIs
Oct 11 2011 Writing CouchDB Views using ClojureScript
Sep 20 2011 2011 Clojure Scholarship: Help send Ambrose to the Conj!
Sep 4 2011 Projects
Sep 4 2011 My projects, present and past
Sep 1 2011 McCarthy on the W3C
Aug 9 2011 Clojure で適切な型定義を選択するためのフローチャート
Jul 20 2011 At what point does S3 break?
Jul 14 2011 Scala isn't complicated; it's clever
Jul 11 2011 Results of the 2011 State of Clojure survey
Jul 5 2011 Flowchart for choosing the right Clojure type definition form
Jun 16 2011 Your life is a vector
Jun 15 2011 The 2011 State of Clojure Survey is Open
Jun 10 2011 'Clojure Programming' book now available
Jun 10 2011 State of Clojure, 2011: What questions do you have?
May 20 2011 Stymied from within (an entrepreneurial experience)
May 18 2011 jsdifflib now on Github
May 12 2011 Recovering from and avoiding "cloud service" lock-in
May 3 2011 Clojure Atlas now available
Apr 22 2011 Adding Gzip compression to a Clojure webapp in 30 seconds
Apr 19 2011 Clojure Atlas (Preview!)
Apr 18 2011 Minifying CSS with Clojure
Apr 5 2011 Opa
Feb 18 2011 Bandalore: a Clojure client library for Amazon's Simple Queue Service (SQS)
Jan 13 2011 How should Clojure applications be structured?
Dec 12 2010 Oracle VP: "We have a strategy to run Java inside a Javascript environment"
Dec 11 2010 Ashton's plight, fight or flight
Nov 2 2010 Continuous Deployment of Clojure Web Applications: Clojure Conj slides and an epic screencast
Sep 22 2010 ...wherein I feel the pain of being a generalist
Sep 10 2010 "Clojure Programming", the book
Sep 10 2010 Anthony Simpson (Raynes) will receive his Clojure "scholarship", thanks to you.
Sep 10 2010 A Clojure "Scholarship": Let's send Raynes to the Conj!
Sep 7 2010 The placebo effect is what makes the software world go 'round
Aug 30 2010 Xerox's Inspirational Carlson and Wilson
Aug 24 2010 Hosting Maven Repos on Github
Aug 19 2010 Untitled
Aug 19 2010 The Ideal Clojure Development Environment
Aug 19 2010 Case-insensitive filesystems vs. AOT-compiled Clojure
Aug 3 2010 Enhancing Clojure's case to evaluate dispatch values
Aug 2 2010 Specifying default slot values for defrecord classes in Clojure
Jul 31 2010 Some parts of me
Jul 15 2010 Programming and software development, medium-rare
Jun 16 2010 The beauty of letterpress and craft and old arts faithfully renewed
Jun 9 2010 Launching DocuHarvest - Turning documents into data
Jun 7 2010 Results from the State of Clojure, Summer 2010 Survey
Jun 2 2010 The State of Clojure, Summer 2010
May 12 2010 Provisioning, administration, and deployment of CouchDB, Java, Tomcat, etc., made easy with Pallet
Apr 23 2010 Clearing some hurdles automating CouchDB administration
Mar 25 2010 Why using Maven for Clojure builds is a no-brainer
Feb 19 2010 Securing web services in a world with few options
Jan 8 2010 Sane web development with Compojure, Jetty, and Maven
Dec 30 2009 All my methods take 316 arguments, and I like it that way
Dec 18 2009 Mavenization of NetBeans Platform projects
Dec 4 2009 String Interpolation in Clojure
Nov 3 2009 Be Mindful of Clojure's binding
Oct 23 2009 Reducing purchase anxiety is a feature
Oct 8 2009 Activity is not Progress (or, 'Did you really need to shave that yak')
Oct 1 2009 Java is dead, but you'll learn to love it
Sep 28 2009 Working with git submodules recursively
Apr 28 2009 Snowtide Informatics Welcomes Ben Fry (of Processing fame) to Northampton
Mar 24 2009 Why MIT now uses python instead of scheme for its undergraduate CS program
Mar 13 2009 Western Mass. Developers Meet at Snowtide
Mar 5 2009 Venture capitalists are entertaining, but please don’t take them too seriously
Feb 26 2009 Whoa, Peter Norvig used some of my code!
Jan 26 2009 Paul Graham’s Y Combinator leaves Boston, entrepreneurs dive under the bed
Nov 19 2008 Surprising Praise
Jul 22 2008 “Full Screen” Wiki Editing in FogBugz
May 1 2008 Burn It Down
Mar 21 2008 Western Mass. Developer’s Group and Snowtide Host Rich Hickey and Clojure
Nov 6 2007 …recommended by 4 out of 5 surveyed seasoned programmers…
Nov 1 2007 WMassDev Meeting Notes (2007.11.01)
Oct 31 2007 Scala Makes Me Think
Apr 16 2007 Thoughts on Martin Fowler’s Domain Specific Languages Overview
Apr 1 2007 Python, Growth, and Sandboxes
Mar 28 2007 Python 3 and Growth (or the lack thereof)
Feb 21 2007 Introducing jsdifflib
Dec 22 2006 New Year's PDFTextStream Sale!
Oct 12 2006 Free PDFTextStream for Academic Use
Oct 4 2006 Speaking about Snowtide and Entrepreneurship at CCV
Sep 11 2006 PDFTextOnline Back Online, Now Beta-2
Sep 7 2006 Cratered by Digg
Aug 30 2006 I <3 Guy Kawasaki
Aug 30 2006 Memory-mapping Files in Java Causes Problems
Aug 21 2006 Working Together: Python and Java, Open Source and Commercial
Aug 16 2006 Software Development and...Pregnancy?
Jan 26 2006 Automated Quality Control, Part II
Jan 18 2006 Automated Quality Control, Part I
Sep 6 2005 "Sometimes required, otherwise optional"
Aug 16 2005 Open Source, Positioning, and Execution
Jul 25 2005 Functional vs. Transparent APIs
Jul 22 2005 Blog stuff
Jul 18 2005 High Noon
Jul 13 2005 Benchmarks and honesty
Jun 28 2005 Totally flattened
Jun 19 2005 Marketing is hard and scary
Jun 16 2005 Worldly Exposure
Jan 21 2005 Clients and Customers
Dec 3 2004 Isn't software grand?
Sep 16 2004 Icelandic Character Encoding (and other Joys of PDF)
Sep 10 2004 Unicode issue found (Icelandic)
Sep 9 2004 The Fine Art of Listening