John Hume

How to Deploy a Rocket Application to Heroku

Rocket is a web application framework for the Rust programming language. Heroku is a platform-as-a-service provider that makes hosting web applications easy and, at the (low-traffic) hobby level, free. Deployment is as easy as pushing to a special git remote repository.

The Life of a Clojure Expression: A Quick Tour of Clojure Internals

This is a written version of my Clojure/West 2015 presentation, for those who’d rather read than watch a video. It goes into more detail and has some updates for Clojure 1.8.

My rust-study Repo

I’ve been learning the Rust programming language recently. You can see my Rust sandbox on GitHub. In addition to the tutorial guessing game, I’ve implemented a decimal number type and the Luhn Algorithm for validating credit card numbers.

My Clojure/West 2015 Presentation: The Life of a Clojure Expression

I intend to eventually produce a written version of this presentation, but haven’t gotten around to it yet. For now, you can watch the video below and look at the source on GitHub.

About Me

Family, music, software engineering.

• My music is available on many streaming services, including Spotify, YouTube Music, and Apple Music. I have a YouTube Channel.
• I used to play drums in the band Two-Day Suitcase.
• I work for Braintree; previously for DRW, Intent Media, ThoughtWorks, National Leisure Group, CruiseOne, POW! Inc.
• I used to blog at elhumidor.blogspot.com.
• You can find me on Twitter, Instagram, GitLab, GitHub, the phone, etc.
• You can encrypt a message to me using my GPG key (fingerprint D0C8 9C93 956C 3726 B402 5ED3 7C52 19A2 B058 E31C).