news.md

News

This page keeps track of babashka-related new items. Feel free to make a PR if you have anything to add. Also see #babashka on Twitter.

2022-07

• Recursive document transformations with Pandoc and Clojure by Teodor Heggelund
• Babashka toolbox: A categorised directory of libraries and tools for Babashka
• Quickblog: Light-weight static blog engine for Clojure and babashka
• Win a babashka t-shirt by participating in this contest!
• AWS Lambda, now with first class parentheses by Ray McDermott (about nbb)
• bb-github-app: An example Babashka Script authenticating as a Github App and interacting with the Checks API
• Ruuter is a routing library which works very well with bb
• Blambda! by Josh Glover
• Files with the .bb extension are now correctly highlighted as Clojure code on Github! See this tweet.
• Encode and decode files as kroki url diagrams, a gist by Henry Widd
• Customized bb builds with clj-nix: tweet
• Expose Clojure functions in the CLI with babashka and nix: tweet
• Meander is now compatible with bb: tweet
• Deleting AWS Glacier vaults with babashka by Tim Zöller

2022-06

• Releases: 0.8.156.
• AWS wiki page
• blambda: Blambda! is a custom runtime for AWS Lambda that lets you write functions using Babashka
• Babashka CLI: turn Clojure functions into CLIs!
• Http-server: Serve static assets
• Deps-bundler: Bundle dependencies on a computer that has access to maven and clojars (PC-A) and bring these over to a computer with limited access (PC-L).
• Prismatic/schema and babashka are now compatible
• Logseq bb tasks: Reusable babashka tasks used by logseq team
• [Breakneck Babashka on K8s](Breakneck Babashka on K8s) by Heow Goodman

2022-05

• Releases: 0.8.2.
• Etaoin moved to clj-commons and now works with babashka as well.
• Nix docs for babashka
• Fly.io docs for babashka
• Babashka survey results
• Quickdoc: (Quick and minimal API doc generation for Clojure
• Awyeah-api - Cognitect's aws-api for babashka

2022-04

• Releases: 0.8.0 - 0.8.1.
• Babashka and Clojure by Rahul Dé at North Virginia Linux Users Group
• Setup-Clojure Github action is now able to install babashka!
• Control Chrome via devtools using clj-chrome-devtools which runs with bb!
• Use pods directly in bb.edn: tweet

2022-03

• Releases: 0.7.7 - 0.7.8.
• Create a password manager with Clojure using Babashka, sqlite, honeysql and stash by Daniel Amber
• Detecting inconsistent aliases in a clojure codebase by Oxalorg
• Clj-konmari by Oxalorg
• Logseq-query by Gabriel Horner (announcement tweet with video)
• The loom library is now compatible (tweet)
• The at-at library is now compatible

2022-02

• Releases: 0.7.5 - 0.7.6.
• Spire is available as a babashka pod
• Babashka Clojure template on Repl.it by Eccentric J
• Create a self-contained executable with caxa
• Cli-matic is now compatible due to this PR
• I, too, Wrote Myself a Static Site Generator by Daw-Ran Liou
• Staplegun: Single file clipboard-manager
• Bbb: make executable CLI tools from bb scripts
• Apptemplate: Application project template for Clojure featuring bb tasks

2022-01

• Releases: 0.7.4.
• Babashka dev builds
• Writing Clojure-living-cookbooks by Cyprien Pannier
• HTMX Todo App
• Better linting for bb.edn
• Unwordle: solver for wordle puzzles
• Using babashka with PHP by Michiel Borkent

2021-12

• Releases: 0.6.8 - 0.7.3.
• Scripting with Babashka on Alfred by Wilker Lucio
• babashka/spec.alpha: a fork of spec.alpha that works with babashka.
• Several people are doing Advent of Code puzzles with babashka
• Compatibility with a fork of tools.namespace. This allows running the Cognitect test-runner (Cognitest) from source.
• bb-components: A script to find all the components that you should deploy your code to.
• Babashka workshop at JavaLand
• Install babashka dev builds
• Combine babashka and PHP
• System wide babashka tasks
• Run an http file server as a babashka task

2021-11

• Releases: 0.6.5 - 0.6.7.
• Contajners: An idiomatic, data-driven, REPL friendly clojure client for OCI container engines.
• deps-modules: a clojure "tool" that attempts to solve one of the "multi module" project problems with tools.deps in a minimalistic way.
• Moldable Emacs: a Clojure Playground with Babashka
• aws pod 0.1.0
• tools.bbuild: a fork of tools.build that runs with babashka and tools-deps-native
• Making markdown-clj babashka compatible by Michiel Borkent
• radiale: radiale: home automation project written using #babashka and Python
• Writing a Clojure shell script with Babashka, a video by Max Weber
• makejack: A clojure CLI build tool, and build library which can run with babashka.
• I wrote myself a static site generator (in babashka) by Dominic Freeston.
• bipe: vipe for babashka

2021-10

• Releases: 0.6.2-0.6.4.
• Babashka on the Thoughtworks Technology Radar
• ruuter is a routing library compatible with babashka.
• A list of companies using babashka
• Ilshat Sultanov shares his babashka tasks
• Slack the music, a babashka script to update your slack status with your current Apple Music track by Tim Zöller.
• Finding my inner Wes Anderson by Tim Zöller.
• Run a local babashka script in a remote server
• Replacing my Octopress blog with 200 lines of Babashka by Michiel Borkent
• The babashka wiki now has a GNU Emacs section
• Invoke babashka tasks in a monorepo
• Speeding up builds with fs/modified-since by Michiel Borkent

2021-09

• New babashka 0.6.0 released. Highlight: support for java.net.http which enables running java-http-clj from source. The raw interop is the first part of a multi-stage plan to move all http related scripting towards java.net.http in favor of the other two solutions currently available in bb: babashka.curl and org.httpkit.client.
• rss-saver: Simple Clojure (Babashka) script that saves articles from world.hey.com RSS feeds.
• babashka-docker-action-example
• script to upgrade zig lang to the latest dev release
• Cursive adds support for babashka in 1.11.0
• How to filter tail output with babashka on StackOverflow
• Awesome Babashka: Parse & produce HTML and SQLite by Jakub Holy
• Neil: an installable babashka script to add common aliases and features to deps.edn-based projects.

2021-08

• New babashka 0.5.1 released. Highlight: new print-deps command for printing a deps.edn map and classpath which includes all built-in deps. This can be used for editor tooling like Cursive and clojure-lsp, but also for migrating a babashka project to a Graal native-image project.
• Babashka receives long term funding from Clojurists Together. Thanks!
• Babashka is 2 years old this month: the first commit was on 9 August 2019!
• nbb: babashka's Node.js cousin
• Cursive adds support for babashka in the latest EAP
• clojure-lsp adds support for babashka scripts
• bb guestbook by Scot Brown.
• bb htmx todo app by Michael Sahili.
• bb aws lambda runtime by Tatu Tarvainen.

2021-07

• New babashka 0.5.0 released. Highlights: clojure.tools.logging + taoensso.timbre added, source compatibility with clojure.data.json.
• Babashka tasks, talk by Michiel Borkent
• Rewriting a clojure file with rewrite-clj and babashka, video by Oxalorg
• Babashka tasks for PostgreSQL by Stel Abrego
• String interpolation with Selmer in bb
• Jirazzz: a babashka JIRA client by Randy Stauner
• Babashka + scittle guestbook by Kloimhardt
• Paillier cryptosystem by litteli
• csv-to-yaml.clj by Cora

2021-06

• New babashka 0.4.4 - 0.4.5 released.
• Share your babashka creations on the Show and tell forum on Github.
• Integrating Babashka into Bazel by Tim Jäger
• Babashka + scittle guestbook example
• Slingshot works with babashka
• Spire gets a babashka pod
• Text to speech AWS example with scittle and babashka.
• Game of Life
• ob-babashka: Emacs org-babel functions for babashka.
• Normalize auto-resolved keywords
• Create PostgreSQL backups using babashka.
• Change flutter SDK using babashka.

2021-05

• Babashka 0.3.7 - 0.4.3 released. Highlights:
  • New task runner feature.
  • Add Selmer to built-in libraries.
  • Add compatibility with jasentaa.
• New website.
• Talk: Babashka: a native Clojure interpreter for scripting — The 2021 Graal Workshop at CGO
• Blog: Playing New Music On Old Car Stereo With Clojure And Babashka
• Homoiconicity and feature flags by Martin Klepsch.
• Manage your macOS setup using babashka.
• Localizing a Ghost theme by Martin Klepsch.
• Babashka SQL pods 0.0.8 including a MySQL pod

2021-04

• Babashka 0.3.2 - 0.3.6 released. See CHANGELOG.md. Highlights:
  • Add rewrite-clj.
  • Support for the binf library.
• Sort requires and imports using rewrite-clj
• Babashka tasks proposal, available in babashka 0.3.5
• A new useful function in babashka.fs: modified-since
• Using babashka for animations
• rewrite-edn is now compatible with babashka

2021-03

• Babashka 0.3.0 - 0.3.1 released. See CHANGELOG.md. Highlights: Raspberry Pi support, bb.edn, more flexible main invocation.
• Babashka shebang for Windows .bat files
• Datalevin now works as a babashka pod
• Babashka sql pods update
• JPoint is going to have a talk on babashka
• A python -m http.server replacement in babashka
• A PR to make ring-codec compatible with babashka
• The stuartsierra/component library seems to work with babashka
• pathom3 works with babashka!
• VPN Connect script
• Github code search script

2021-02

• Babashka 0.2.9 - 0.2.12 released
• babashka.fs: utility library for dealing with files (based on java.nio). Bundled with bb 0.2.9.
• New Youtube channel with babashka related videos
• MS SQL support for the babashka sql pods
• Clojure like its PHP: run babashka scripts as CGI scripts
• Automating Video Edits with Clojure and ffmpeg by Adam James
• Gaka, a CSS-generating library that works with babashka.
• Deploy babashka script to AWS Lambda by Dainius Jocas.
• Elisp and cider commands to spawn a babashka repl and connect to it
• klein, a lein imitation script built on deps.edn
• failjure works with babashka.
• A script to solve our mono-repo problem with deps.edn at work.
• Single-script vega-lite plotter
• Find vars with the clj-kondo pod. Also see video.
• Another setup babashka Github action
• AWS Lambda + babashka + minimal container image
• football script
• ffclj: Clojure ffmpeg wrapper
• clj-lineart: Generative line art from a clojure-cgi script
• bunpack: remembers how to unpack things, so you don't have to
• A script to download deps for all deps.edn aliases

2021-01

• Babashka 0.2.8 released. This includes new libraries: hiccup, core.match and clojure.test.check.
• On 27th of February, Michiel (a.k.a. @borkdude) will do a talk about babashka at the 2021 GraalVM workshop.
• First release of the aws pod.
• A script to print API breakage warnings.
• A script to lazily page through AWS results using the new aws pod.
• Environ works with babashka.
• Expound now works with spartan.spec
• A basic logger that works in babashka scripts
• A basic router based on core.match
• A minimal Github GraphQL client
• New developments around babashka on Raspberry Pi

2020-12

• A new babashka talk: Babashka and sci internals. Also see slides and REPL session.
• Babashka 0.2.6 released. See release notes.
• Babashka 0.2.5 released. See release notes.
• First release of the sqlite pod
• First release of the buddy pod
• The data from the babashka survey is now available here. I have provided a summary here.
• Blog article: exporter for passwordstore.org by Eugen Stan
• weavejester/progrock is a babashka-compatible library for printing progress bars.
• A maze animation babashka script by mmz

2020-11

• Babashka survey. Feedback will be used for future development.
• Babashka 0.2.4 released. See release notes.
• Gaiwan.co are building their static HTML with babashka and bootleg.
• sha-words: A clojure program to turn a sha hash into list of nouns in a predictable jar.
• Stash: a CLI for encrypted text storage written in Haskell, accessible as pod from babashka and Python!
• NextJournal released a babashka notebook environment.
• Interdep manages interdependent dependencies using Clojure's tools.deps and babashka.
• LA Clojure Meetup presentation by Nate Jones. Recorded in April 2020.
• Github action for babashka by Nicolas Ha.
• Oracle DB feature flag by Jakub Holy added.
• Torrent viewer gist by Aleksandr Zhuravlёv.
• Clone all repositories from a Gitlab group: gist by Steffen Glückselig.
• Matchete, a pattern matching library, works with babashka. See example.

2020-10

• Babashka 0.2.3 released. See release notes.
• Malcolm Sparks posted a script that sorts his photo collection.
• Image viewer example
• SQL Server pod by Isak Sky
• SSH Auth Github by NextJournal.
• pod-tzzh-mail: a pod to send mail.
• NextJournal replaces bash with a babashka script

2020-09

• Babashka 0.2.1 and 0.2.2 released.
• Code Quality report for Clojure projects in Gitlab using babashka and clj-kondo. See gist. By Hans Bugge.
• pod-tzzh-aws: a pod to interact with AWS.
• spotifyd-notification by David Harrigan.

2020-08

• Babashka 0.2.0 released.
• Maarten Metz blogs about how he rebuilt his blog using babashka.

2020-07

• Blake Miller published https://gitlab.com/blak3mill3r/emacs-ludicrous-speed.
• babashka-clojure Github action.
• testdoc works with babashka.
• babashka-test-action
• New release of tabl which also can be used as a pod from babashka.

2020-06

• Babashka 0.1.3 and 0.1.2 released.
• New release of brisk, a CLI around nippy which can be used as a pod from babashka.
• passphrase.clj script by Snorre Magnus Davøen