I really liked this. I’ve not tried jolt (yet!) but it sounds like a good fit for using Clojure on something like Heroku without worrying about the mismatch between the JVM and resource constrained environments.

I also enjoyed the writing style a great deal.

I agree with this. I feel like there’s a false dichotomy right now in a lot of these discussions where one can only vibe code or only code by hand. It is possible to do both…

This framing of it being a tool that you find indispensable as an individual is important. I’m not interested in debating static vs dynamic types, or vim vs emacs, etc. If it works for you, then that’s great!

But the difference with LLMs currently - I guess? - is that non-engineers are pushing the idea that it’s universally indispensable at scale. I think it leads to a lot of emotion bleeding into the debate.

Nvidia drivers leave a bit to be desired on Linux imo. I’ve got an all AMD HTPC right now and bazzite is terrific.

You can expose a REPL socket from a running clojure instance in whatever environment you choose. Biff has this as a marketed feature, described on this page: https://biffweb.com/docs/reference/production/

Thanks for the link.

Is this a regular way to deploy?

I mean, I saw there is Leinen or something like that for package management.

But once you run, you could still connect to an app that has been run in the usual way? Seems like a setup on top of it.

Or is is just independent?

It's regular, every production Clojure system has REPL access for devs.

You don't need it often, but when you do, it's invaluable. And the REPL is such a normal thing to use in Clojure, there's no reason not to do it.

This page should give you the answer: https://nrepl.org/nrepl/usage/server.html

Absolutely. I had imagined green hydrogen production or something similarly intensive to be the solution.

Reminds me of the Rich Hickey post Open Source is Not About You.

https://gist.github.com/richhickey/1563cddea1002958f96e7ba95...

Your recent post on using datastar with SSE to power game of life [1] was excellent. Thanks for writing it!

[1] https://andersmurphy.com/2025/04/07/clojure-realtime-collabo...

Thank you! I've been meaning to write one on the nitty gritty of virtual scroll, hopefully I'll find some time next month.

That would be great to see. Likewise more details about your custom compression settings.

I had my own company previously and I found it hard to detangle that commercial mindset from hobby coding. I’m employed now and find it much easier to code purely for fun.

If I played guitar professionally then I’d probably find it hard to not think about new pieces in the context of a gig-worthy repertoire.

This is real, anytime I code I'm obsessed about RoI

This matches well with my experience so far. It’s why the chat interface has remained my preference over autocomplete in an IDE.