Jacob Emcken

Trust, not surveillance, cultivates freedom

I remember the feeling it triggered when I heard a Danish politician claim:

“With surveillance, freedom increases.”

— Nick Hækkerup, 2019

Local S3 storage with MinIO for your Clojure dev environment

Simple Storage Service or S3 Cloud Object Storage is a versatile and cheap storage. I’ve used it for invoices, contracts, media, and configuration snapshots, among other things. It’s a perfect fit when the object key (or what many might think of as a filename or path) can be used as a unique key to retrieve what you need — and doing it from Clojure is no exception.

Stumble upon in April 2025

While doomscrolling on LinkedIn the other day, a comment linking to an article/essay about what to expect from the newly inaugurated U.S. president and his administration caught my eye.

A Clojure Jekyll adventure: Jakel materializes from the mist (a Jekyll clone)

I’m flipping through my quest log to reflect on the trials I’ve faced recently. Most improvements to the Clojure-based Jekyll clone focused on making the blog navigable.

This is the fourth part of the series: “A Clojure Jekyll Adventure”. If you’re curious about what happened in the previous chapter of my journey, check out: A Wet side quest.

A Clojure Jekyll adventure: A Wet side quest (Wet 0.3.0 released)

I ventured far and wide on my Clojure Jekyll adventure right after the last check-in. Then, fatigue (and life) caught up with me, and I had to set up camp for a little while.

The other day, I went on a little side quest and officially released my fork’s changes to the Liquid templating library Wet 💧.

This is the third part of the series: “A Clojure Jekyll adventure”. If you’re curious about what happened on the previous part of my journey, check out: Getting my feet wet with Liquid.