Clojure Conj 2025 - Two Lies and a Truth Trivia
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Welcome to an interactive trivia game based on photos from Clojure Conj 2025!
How to Play
- View each photo from the conference
- Read three statements about the photo or the event
- Two statements are FALSE (lies) and one is TRUE
- Click the statement you believe is TRUE
- Track your score as you progress through the slideshow
- See your final results at the end!
The Game
About the Conference
Clojure Conj is the original Clojure conference, bringing together the global Clojure community to share ideas, learn from each other, and celebrate the power of functional programming.
The 2025 edition featured talks on cutting-edge topics, hands-on workshops, and plenty of opportunities to connect with fellow Clojurians.
🎉 Call to Participation - Add Your Memories to This Game!
Were you at Clojure Conj 2025? I’d love to have your photos and stories in this trivia game! This is a wonderful opportunity to:
- Learn about contributing to Clojure Civitas - Get hands-on experience with open source contribution
- Share your conference experience - Your unique perspective makes this project richer
- Practice your ClojureScript skills - The code structure is intentionally simple and approachable
- Connect with the community - Contributing is a great way to engage with fellow Clojurians
How to Contribute (It’s Easy!):
- Submit a photo or two from the conference
- Talks, speakers, hallway conversations, the venue, activities - anything that captures your experience!
- Create two LIES and one TRUTH about your photo
- Make it interesting and fun - think about what might surprise people!
- Look at the source code - It’s very simple!
- Check out trivia_slideshow.cljs
- The structure is straightforward - just maps with image paths and question data
- Create a PR to the Clojure Civitas repository
- First-time contributors very welcome!
- We’re here to help if you have questions
Example Entry Structure:
{:image "/scittle/conj_2025/media/your-photo.png"
:question "What happened in this moment?"
:options ["This is a false statement (lie #1)"
"This is the TRUE statement!"
"This is also false (lie #2)"]
:correct-index 1 ;; index of the true statement
:explanation "Here's why the truth is true!"}A Small Apology…
If we met at the conference and had wonderful conversations but didn’t get a chance to snap a photo together - I sincerely apologize! Sometimes we get so caught up in the moment, enjoying great discussions about Clojure, functional programming, or life in general, that we completely forget to capture it with a photo.
If that was us, please don’t hesitate to reach out. I’d still love to include a note about our conversation or perhaps we can connect at the next conference!
Personal Reflections
An Absolute Blast at Clojure Conj 2025!
I had the incredible honor of both attending and speaking at Clojure Conj 2025, and honestly - this was one of the most memorable conference experiences I’ve ever had.
Huge, heartfelt thanks to the organizers for not only putting together such an outstanding event, but also for inviting me to speak and share my work with this wonderful community. The care, thoughtfulness, and dedication that went into every detail of the conference was truly remarkable. You created something special.
The Real Magic: Conversations and Connections
While the talks were excellent - and there were SO many brilliant presentations covering everything from cutting-edge language features to real-world applications - what I’ll treasure most are the conversations.
The hallway conversations were absolutely incredible. Those spontaneous discussions between sessions, during coffee breaks, over meals, and at evening events - that’s where the real magic happened:
- Deep technical dives into functional programming patterns and Clojure internals
- Inspiring exchanges about the future of the language and ecosystem
- Finally meeting in person people I’ve only known through GitHub, Slack, and Clojurists Together
- Making genuine friendships that I know will last well beyond the conference
- Learning about the amazing projects people are building - from startups to enterprise applications
- Sharing war stories, debugging tales, and those “aha!” moments we’ve all experienced with Clojure
The Clojure community is special. People are welcoming, intellectually curious, thoughtful, and kind. There’s a genuine warmth and openness that you don’t always find in tech communities.
To Anyone Thinking About Attending
If you’re reading this and you’ve never been to Clojure Conj - or any Clojure conference - I cannot encourage you enough to attend next year!
It doesn’t matter if you’re:
- A Clojure beginner just getting started with the language
- An experienced developer looking to deepen your expertise
- Someone curious about functional programming but not yet committed
- Interested in what makes this community tick
- Working with Clojure professionally or just as a hobby
You’ll find a place for yourself here. The community is incredibly welcoming to newcomers and veterans alike. You’ll learn, grow, make connections, and probably have way more fun than you expected.
The combination of world-class technical content, hands-on workshops, and the opportunity to connect with passionate, smart, and friendly people makes it worth every minute.
I traveled all the way from Sydney, Australia - a journey that took me through Los Angeles with a layover before finally arriving in Charlotte, NC. Yes, it’s literally the opposite side of the world. But you know what? It was absolutely worth it. Every single mile. The connections I made, the knowledge I gained, and the experience of being part of this community in person made the long journey completely worthwhile.
— Burin Choomnuan