Poem as value

Build organic software.

“Do anything, but let it produce joy.” 

― Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass

curate poetry from the public domain

Books are pages

We can't interact with a book

 I used to be a Java certified programmer, who knew design patterns, scripting languages, etc.,

how do you discover poetry together?

curate, search, record & play

a browser repl for

poets

Design is inspired by IAWriter

Search

word counts

linguistics for humans

nouns, verbs, etc.,

hyphenate

animation

+ custom typography (based on metadata)

realtime search ...

together

Inspired by ...

How do you contextualize a runtime engine with near infinite customizations?

Think in data

    build a foundation on data 

make a platform 

to adapt and grow

attempts at refactoring the same idea

v1 - python/flask app

v2 - node/express app

v3 - python/sammyjs static site generator

six months later ...

in plaintext

---
title: You May Forget
author: Sappho
country: Greece
year: 600/500 bc
gender: female
tags:
-  time
-  love
-  lyric
-  memory
---

You may forget but
let me tell you
this: someone in
some future time
will think of us.

in edn

{
 :title "You May Forget"
 :author "Sappho"
 :country "Greece"
 :year "600/500 bc"
 :gender "female"
 :content #zen/content
   "
   You may forget but
   let me tell you
   this: someone in
   some future time
   will think of us.
   "
 :tags #{:time :love :lyric :memory}
 :collections #zen/collections
                 {:name "my favorite greek poems"
                  :public true}
 :annotations #zen/annotations
                [
                 {:selections [[1 1] [1 3]]
                  :type :notes
                  :notes #zen/note "Unusual opening line."}
                 {:selections [[3 2] [5 4]]
                  :type :highlight
                  :highlight #zen/highlight  #{:quote :bookmark}}]                         
}

commands in repl

tokenization and frequency counting.

New to Clojure, Clojurescript, core.async ...

Error handling

Best practices

Devops 

Responsive HTML5 Layouts with Om

nuts & bolts

Content: Plaintext (Zenup)

Data: Edn

User Annotations & Interactions: Edn

Design: HTML5/CSS3/JQuery*

Huge fan of Python for Humans

edn

(zen/read-zenup :resource "data/poem.txt")
(zen/read-edn :file "~/my-poems/whitman-leaves-of-grass.edn")

elastic search

(def whitman-100 "/Users/priyatam/poems/*.txt")

(search/setup)

(search/index :resource "data/poem.txt")

(search/index-all atas-curated-2k)

(first (search/meta-query :title "In Silent"))

(search/meta-query :content "someone in") 

datomic

(data/connect! :mem "poetroid")

(data/load-schema "data/schema.edn")

(data/save-poem :s3 (:my-poetry-bucket env) "thinking-in-clojure.edn") 

(data/save-poem :resource "data/poem.edn") 

(data/find-by :author/fullname "Sappho")

(data/find-by :poem/short-url "host-url/21618f18")

(def ann {:annotations #zen/annotations
                   [{:selections [[1 1] [1 3]] 
                     :type :notes
                     :notes #zen/note "Unusual opening line."}]}

(data/save-annotation ann "21618f18")

python linguistics

hyphenate(text_poem)

stresses(syllable_counts)

parts_of_speech(poem)

parts_of_speech_tags(poem)

emotions(poem)

...

 publish

(api/publish! :resource "data/poem.edn")

(api/publish-all! :dir "~/poems/basho-*.txt")             

:tags

Continent, Country, Town

ways to classify stanzas

machine learning?

{{.}}

{:context #{:boston-commons :bd-colen-photography-workshop
            "a few hours after shooting the following photos"}
  :time "4th July 2011"
 :photo-log "www.site/son-alone.jpg"            "www.site/son-father-together-08.jpg"
            "www.site/son-father-together-07.jpg"}  

We don't erase our old memories in order to form new ones. It's likely we will look back at the last few decades as an unfortunate time when computers kept us from doing the right thing.  

The time to change that is now.

- Datomic docs

*edited for brevity