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It all started with the idea to send a talk to Heart of Clojure, based on my work on Chlorine. Now, the talk wasn’t selected, but I decided to go to the conference even then. Being on Brazil, this meant about 19 hours of travel, so without thinking too much I bought the ticket to the conference and decided what do to latter about the travel, where to stay, and how many days I would stay. The first idea was to simply go there to the conference, but I imagined it would be very tiring, so came a strange and incredible idea that I’ll let to another post.

Now, the conference. In fact, it was different from everything I ever saw. First of all, it was amazing – not only because of the technical talks, but the whole experience of being in Leuven, meeting new people, using English as the first language everywhere, trying to understand a little of Dutch (spoiler alert: it didn’t work), and so on…
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