Mostly a boring maintenance release with lib upgrades!
### Events
- [Babashka-conf](https://babashka.org/conf/) is happening June 10th in
Berlin. Only a few tickets left! See the [schedule](https://babashka.org/conf/schedule.html). Also you can buy a [conf t-shirt](https://www.etsy.com/listing/1475981599/babashka-conf-berlin-2023-t-shirt) now! See Nikita wearing it [here](https://twitter.com/nikitonsky/status/1658066530800742400)!
- Babashka is going to the [Strange Loop](https://www.thestrangeloop.com/) conference!
### Projects
- [beep-boop](https://github.com/pesterhazy/beep-boop): Audible and visual feedback for test runs
- [panas.example](https://github.com/keychera/panas.example): All htmx examples ported to babashka!
- [utility-scripts](https://github.com/somecho/utility-scripts): A collection of helper scripts for Clojure, Java, Ledger and Taskwarrior. Written in Clojure
- [bb-scripts](https://github.com/techconative/bb-scripts): Babashka scripts for common utilities
- [Changing my mind: Converting a script from bash to Babashka](https://blog.agical.se/en/posts/changing-my-mind--converting-a-script-from-bash-to-babashka/)
- [How to create a really simple ClojureCLR dependency tool](https://blog.agical.se/en/posts/how-to-create-a-really-simple-clojureclr-dependency-tool/) with babashka
- [Making a resume with Node.js babashka (nbb)](https://yogthos.net/posts/2023-05-12-nbb-resume.html)
Biggest highlight: `bb.edn` is now respected relative of a script, no matter the directory you invoke it from! See [docs](https://book.babashka.org/#_script_adjacent_bb_edn).
### Projects
- [babashka-dl](https://github.com/mjhika/babashka-dl): simple install script for babashka on windows
- [instaparse-bb](https://github.com/babashka/instaparse-bb): Use instaparse from babashka, a new release
### Videos
- [Learning clojure w/ @lispyclouds](https://youtu.be/uBTRLBU-83A): a stream with teej_dv, a neovim core dev
- [A technique for live coding simple web pages](https://github.com/whacked/cow/blob/main/a%20technique%20for%20live%20coding%20simple%20web%20pages.md) with babashka
### Videos
- [Stockholm Clojure Meetup Feb 23: Blambda! The sound of Babashka and Lambda colliding](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NfgYon96dsE)
### Projects
- [debux](https://github.com/philoskim/debux) is now babaskha-compatible
- [lines-of-code-bb](https://github.com/matthewdowney/linesofcode-bb): Babashka script to count lines of Clojure code, docs, comments, and more
- [deps-try](https://github.com/eval/deps-try): a babashka-script to try out Clojure libraries in rebel-readline
- [bb-dialog](https://github.com/pixelated-noise/bb-dialog) adds support for `--treeview`
- [A duckduck go CLI with babashka and (bbl)gum](https://mastodon.me.uk/@choffee/109845697304457129)
- [babashka http-client](https://github.com/babashka/http-client) now supports multipart uploads
- [sublime-pretty-edn](https://github.com/oakmac/sublime-pretty-edn): Format, Validate, Minify EDN files in Sublime Text
- [Play console tetris in babashka!](https://twitter.com/borkdude/status/1628473136969576449)
- [kaocha test runner](https://github.com/lambdaisland/kaocha) became babashka compatible!
- Include [http-client](https://github.com/babashka/http-client) as built-in library
- Compatibility with [clojure.tools.namespace.repl/refresh](https://github.com/clojure/tools.namespace)
- Compatibility with [clojure.java.classpath](https://github.com/clojure/java.classpath) (and other libraries which rely on `java.class.path` and `RT/baseLoader`)
- Compatibility with [eftest](https://github.com/weavejester/eftest) test runner (see demo)
- Compatibility with [cljfmt](https://github.com/weavejester/cljfmt)
- Support for `*loaded-libs*` and `(loaded-libs)`
- Support `add-watch` on vars (which adds compatibility with `potemkin.namespaces`)
- BREAKING: make printing of script results explicit with `--prn`
### Events
- [Babashka Workshop](https://clojure.stream/workshops/babashka) at ClojureStream with Rahul De
- [Blambda! The sound of Babashka and Lambda colliding](https://www.meetup.com/sthlm-clj/events/291204199/?utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=share-btn_savedevents_share_modal&utm_source=twitter): sthlm.clj (Stockholm, Sweden)
### Articles
- [Babooka: write command line Clojure](https://www.braveclojure.com/quests/babooka/) by Daniel Higginbotham
- [Blambda analyses sites](https://jmglov.net/blog/2023-01-04-blambda-analyses-sites.html) by Josh Glover
- [Babashka: How GraalVM Helped Create a Fast-Starting Scripting Environment for Clojure](https://logico-jp.io/2023/01/07/babashka-how-graalvm-helped-create-a-fast-starting-scripting-environment-for-clojure/) in Japanese
- [The wizard of HOP - How we built the web based HOP CLI Settings Editor using Babashka and Scittle](https://www.gethop.dev/post/the-wizard-of-hop-how-we-built-the-web-based-hop-cli-settings-editor-using-babashka-and-scittle) by Bingen Galartza
- [Simple TUIs with Babashka and Gum](https://rattlin.blog/bbgum.html) by Rattlin.blog
- [Babashka And Dialog Part Ii: Announcing The Bb-Dialog Library](https://www.pixelated-noise.com/blog/2023/01/20/bb-dialog-announcement/index.html) by A.C. Danvers
- [Re-Writing a GlobalProtect OpenConnect VPN Connect script in Babashka](https://tech.toryanderson.com/2023/01/14/re-writing-a-globalprotect-openconnect-vpn-connect-script-in-babashka/) by Tory Anderson
### Projects
Projects that were new, had updates or were made compatible with babashka:
- [asdf-babashka](https://github.com/pitch-io/asdf-babashka): babashka plugin for the asdf version manager
- [babashka-htmx-todoapp](https://github.com/prestancedesign/babashka-htmx-todoapp): Quick example of a todo list SPA using Babashka and HTMX
- [bblgum](https://github.com/lispyclouds/bblgum): An extremely tiny and simple wrapper around charmbracelet/gum
- [bb-dialog](https://github.com/pixelated-noise/bb-dialog): A simple wrapper library for working with dialog from Babashka
- [carve](https://github.com/borkdude/carve): Remove unused Clojure vars
- [chr](https://github.com/ThaddeusJiang/chr): native commands history report for the default terminal users
- [clj-kondo-bb](https://github.com/clj-kondo/clj-kondo-bb): Invoke clj-kondo from babashka scripts!
- [cljfmt](https://github.com/weavejester/cljfmt): A tool for formatting Clojure code
- [drepl](https://github.com/claytn/drepl): Node JS dependency-repl. The node repl you already know with easy library installations
- [lein2deps](https://github.com/borkdude/lein2deps): Lein project.clj to deps.edn converter
- [neil](https://github.com/babashka/neil): A CLI to add common aliases and features to deps.edn-based projects
- [obsidian-babashka](https://github.com/filipesilva/obsidian-babashka): Run Obsidian Clojure(Script) codeblocks in Babashka
- [pod-babashka-buddy](https://github.com/babashka/pod-babashka-buddy): A pod around buddy core (Cryptographic Api for Clojure)
- [quickblog](https://github.com/borkdude/quickblog): Light-weight static blog engine for Clojure and babashka
- [solenoid](https://github.com/adam-james-v/solenoid): A small clojure tool for making little control UIs while using the REPL!
- [tools.bbuild](https://github.com/babashka/tools.bbuild): babashka version of tools.build
- [weather](https://gist.github.com/yogthos/f86e63b856e1413180b2262024ece977): command line util for grabbing current weather for a city using OpenWeather API
- [How GraalVM Helped Create a Fast-Starting Scripting Environment for Clojure](https://medium.com/graalvm/babashka-how-graalvm-helped-create-a-fast-starting-scripting-environment-for-clojure-b0fcc38b0746)
- [http-client](https://github.com/babashka/http-client): a new HTTP client library for babashka
- [How to Do Things With Babashka](https://presumably.de/how-to-do-things-with-babashka.html) by Paulus Esterhazy (2022-12)
- [Using Babashka to Get Electricity Prices](https://www.karimarttila.fi/clojure/2022/12/04/using-babashka-to-get-electricity-prices) by Kari Marttila
- [Adding prompts to your babashka scripts with dialog](https://www.pixelated-noise.com/blog/2022/12/09/dialog-and-babashka/index.html) by A.C. Danvers
- [Scraping an HTML dictionary with Babashka and Bootleg](https://blog.exupero.org/scraping-an-html-dictionary-with-babashka-and-bootleg/) by exupero
- [quickblog](https://github.com/borkdude/quickblog) v0.1.0: Light-weight static blog engine for Clojure and babashka
- [bb-excel](https://github.com/kbosompem/bb-excel): Read Excel Files in babashka scripts
- [Get paginated list of issues from gitlab with clojure/babashka](https://gist.github.com/MrGung/29d0547fe45316c3438032fd164d42c6) by Steffen Glückselig
- Install development builds: `bash <(curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/babashka/babashka/master/install) --dev-build --dir /tmp`
- [JVM interop improvements in bb](https://twitter.com/borkdude/status/1606280110692352001)
- [A little trick to have conditional code for babashka in a .clj file without resorting to .cljc reader conditionals](https://twitter.com/borkdude/status/1599067149187764224)
- [Quickblog](https://github.com/borkdude/quickblog): Light-weight static blog engine for Clojure and babashka
- Win a babashka t-shirt by participating in [this](https://twitter.com/borkdude/status/1547847843381030912) contest!
- [AWS Lambda, now with first class parentheses](https://www.juxt.pro/blog/nbb-lambda) by Ray McDermott (about nbb)
- [bb-github-app](https://github.com/brandonstubbs/bb-github-app): An example Babashka Script authenticating as a Github App and interacting with the Checks API
- [Ruuter](https://github.com/askonomm/ruuter#setting-up-with-babashka) is a routing library which works very well with bb
- [Blambda!](https://jmglov.net/blog/2022-07-03-blambda.html) by Josh Glover
- Files with the `.bb` extension are now correctly highlighted as Clojure code on Github! See [this](https://twitter.com/borkdude/status/1543937735429431298) tweet.
- Encode and decode files as kroki url diagrams, a [gist](https://gist.github.com/henryw374/070845dbd8cfb4672a3c0d06cf8b00e4) by Henry Widd
- Customized bb builds with clj-nix: [tweet](https://twitter.com/jlesquembre/status/1543686641461694470)
- [Logseq-query](https://github.com/cldwalker/logseq-query) by Gabriel Horner [(announcement tweet with video)](https://twitter.com/cldwalker/status/1506991213030871041)
- The [loom](https://github.com/aysylu/loom) library is now compatible [(tweet)](https://twitter.com/borkdude/status/1502237220811550723)
- The [at-at](https://github.com/overtone/at-at) library is now compatible
- [Scripting with Babashka on Alfred](https://blog.wsscode.com/babashka-and-alfred/) by Wilker Lucio
- [babashka/spec.alpha](https://github.com/babashka/spec.alpha): a fork of spec.alpha that works with babashka.
- Several people are doing [Advent of Code puzzles with babashka](https://twitter.com/search?q=%23babashka%20%20%23AdventOfCode&src=typed_query&f=live)
- Compatibility with a [fork of tools.namespace](https://github.com/babashka/tools.namespace). This allows
running the Cognitect [test-runner](https://github.com/cognitect-labs/test-runner) (Cognitest) from source.
- [bb-components](https://github.com/vedang/bb-scripts#bb-components): A script to find all the components that you should deploy your code to.
- [Babashka workshop at JavaLand](https://github.com/ijug-ev/JavaLand/tree/main/Community-Aktivit%C3%A4ten#bash-war-gestern-shell-scripting-mit-babashka-clojure-ug-d%C3%BCsseldorf-christian-meter-rheinjug-jens-bendisposto)
- [Contajners](https://github.com/lispyclouds/contajners): An idiomatic,
data-driven, REPL friendly clojure client for OCI container engines.
- [deps-modules](https://github.com/exoscale/deps-modules#babashka): 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](https://ag91.github.io/blog/2021/11/05/moldable-emacs-a-clojure-playground-with-babashka/)
- [tools.bbuild](https://github.com/babashka/tools.bbuild): a fork of tools.build that runs with babashka and [tools-deps-native](https://github.com/babashka/tools-deps-native)
- [Making markdown-clj babashka compatible](https://blog.michielborkent.nl/markdown-clj-babashka-compatible.html) by Michiel Borkent
- [radiale](https://github.com/xlfe/radiale): radiale: home automation project written using #babashka and Python
- [Writing a Clojure shell script with Babashka](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D-_Mz7rz1po), a video by Max Weber
- [makejack](https://github.com/hugoduncan/makejack): A clojure CLI build tool, and build library which can run with babashka.
- [I wrote myself a static site generator](https://freeston.me/posts/2021-11-29-new-site-generator/) (in babashka) by Dominic Freeston.
- [bipe](https://gist.github.com/borkdude/82dcdd36a1e61ef36f19221876e7b1b6): vipe for babashka
- Babashka on the [Thoughtworks Technology Radar](https://www.thoughtworks.com/radar/platforms/babashka)
- [ruuter](https://github.com/askonomm/ruuter#setting-up-with-babashka) is a
routing library compatible with babashka.
- A list of [companies](https://github.com/babashka/babashka/blob/master/doc/companies.md) using babashka
- Ilshat Sultanov shares his [babashka tasks](https://twitter.com/just_sultanov/status/1446118161258987534)
- [Slack the music](https://github.com/javahippie/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](https://javahippie.net/clojure/2021/10/18/finding-my-inner-wes-anderson.html) by Tim Zöller.
- [Run a local babashka script in a remote server](https://twitter.com/borkdude/status/1451110414062870528)
- [Replacing my Octopress blog with 200 lines of Babashka](https://blog.michielborkent.nl/migrating-octopress-to-babashka.html) by Michiel Borkent
- The babashka wiki now has a [GNU Emacs](https://github.com/babashka/babashka/wiki/GNU-Emacs) section
- Invoke babashka tasks in a [monorepo](https://github.com/babashka/babashka/discussions/1044#discussioncomment-1544956)
- [Speeding up builds with fs/modified-since](https://blog.michielborkent.nl/speeding-up-builds-fs-modified-since.html) by Michiel Borkent
- [script](https://gist.github.com/rutenkolk/dbd970d03a0d012b671db38434ccbfa7) to upgrade zig lang to the latest dev release
- [Cursive](https://twitter.com/CursiveIDE/status/1439022267187433472) adds support for babashka in 1.11.0
- How to filter tail output with babashka on [StackOverflow](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/69241046/how-to-filter-output-of-tail-with-babashka/69241911?stw=2#69241911)
- [Awesome Babashka: Parse & produce HTML and SQLite](https://blog.jakubholy.net/2021/awesome-babashka-dash/) by Jakub Holy
- 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](https://www.clojuriststogether.org/news/long-term-funding-selections/). Thanks!
- Babashka is 2 years old this month: the [first commit](https://github.com/babashka/babashka/commit/6dee50b0face0b890a7f628a63b21d5d706a48ee) was on 9 August 2019!
- [Talk](https://youtu.be/Yjeh57eE9rg): Babashka: a native Clojure interpreter for scripting — The 2021 Graal Workshop at CGO
- [Blog](https://savo.rocks/posts/playing-new-music-on-old-car-stereo-with-clojure-and-babashka/): Playing New Music On Old Car Stereo With Clojure And Babashka
- Babashka 0.3.0 - 0.3.1 released. See [CHANGELOG.md](https://github.com/babashka/babashka/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md). Highlights: Raspberry Pi support, bb.edn, more flexible main invocation.
- [Babashka shebang](https://github.com/borkdude/deps.clj/blob/master/deps.bat#L1-L7) for Windows .bat files
- [Datalevin](https://twitter.com/huahaiy/status/1371689142585753604) now works as a babashka pod
- A `python -m http.server` [replacement in babashka](https://gist.github.com/holyjak/36c6284c047ffb7573e8a34399de27d8)
- A [PR](https://github.com/ring-clojure/ring-codec/issues/26) to make `ring-codec` compatible with babashka
- The [stuartsierra/component](https://github.com/stuartsierra/component) library [seems to work with babashka](https://github.com/babashka/babashka/issues/742)
- [Find vars with the clj-kondo pod](https://gist.github.com/borkdude/841d85d5ad04c517337166b3928697bd). Also see [video](https://youtu.be/TvBmtGS0KJE).
- Babashka [0.2.8](https://github.com/babashka/babashka/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md#v028) 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](https://graalworkshop.github.io/2021/).
- First release of the [aws pod](https://github.com/babashka/pod-babashka-aws).
- A [script](https://gist.github.com/borkdude/ba372c8cee311e31020b04063d88e1be) to print API breakage warnings.
- A [script](https://gist.github.com/lgouger/2262e2d2503306f2595e48a7888f4e73) to lazily page through AWS results using the new [aws pod](https://github.com/babashka/pod-babashka-aws).
- [Gaiwan.co](https://github.com/lambdaisland/gaiwan_co#tech-stack) are building their static HTML with babashka and [bootleg](https://github.com/retrogradeorbit/bootleg#babashka-pod-usage).
- Code Quality report for Clojure projects in Gitlab using babashka and clj-kondo. See [gist](https://gist.github.com/hansbugge/4be701d771057e8ef6bbbb0912656355). By Hans Bugge.
- [pod-tzzh-aws](https://github.com/tzzh/pod-tzzh-aws): a pod to interact with AWS.
