Building My Own Clojure Tools

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Custom programming tools include a patched Fira Code font that adds ligatures and kerning fixes for symbols and punctuation, a minimal Alabaster color scheme that uses five memorable highlight rules and highlights comments, hand‑written Sublime grammars for Clojure and EDN with extensive tests that eliminate false positives/negatives, and a proposal for a two-rule formatter (uniform two‑space indentation and bracket alignment) that avoids library/runtime special‑cases; fonts, theme and grammars are implemented and working, the universal formatter is specified but not yet shipped.

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1. 0:00Introduction to dev tools
2. 2:22Customizing fonts
3. 13:53Color schemes
4. 25:33Grammar and parsing
5. 33:43Code formatting
6. 46:45Q&A and closing thoughts

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