18 March 2026
Christoph Neumann

Welcome to the Clojure Deref! This is a weekly link/news roundup for the Clojure ecosystem (feed: RSS).

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Clojurists Together: Call for Proposals

Clojurists Together has opened the Q2 2026 funding round for open-source Clojure projects. Applications will be accepted through March 19th.

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Debut release

  • spel - Idiomatic Clojure wrapper for Playwright. Browser automation, API testing, Allure reporting, and native CLI - for Chromium, Firefox, and WebKit

  • pants_backend_clojure - Pants build tool backend for Clojure

  • edgarjure - Clojure library for accessing SEC EDGAR filings — company lookup, filing content, XBRL financials, and NLP item extraction via SEC’s public APIs

  • aimee - Aimee is a Clojure library for streaming and non-streaming OpenAI compatible Chat Completions over core.async channels.

  • text-diff - Line-level text diffing for Clojure, ClojureScript and babashka

  • livewire - Embedded nREPL wire into a running Spring Boot app — giving AI agents and humans a live probe into the JVM. Inspect beans, trace SQL, detect N+1s, and hot-swap @Query annotations. Zero restarts.

  • rewrite-json - A Clojure library for format-preserving JSON and JSONC editing

  • clj-figlet - A native Clojure re-implementation of FIGlet — the classic ASCII art text renderer.

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