Clojurians Log v2

Morning! Have you been away?

yes.... I was off for a week. very relaxing. but also good to be back here.

I am enjoying the long weekend, but found myself writing some Clojure (well, Babashka). I thought it might be fun to use Babashka scripts instead of ansible to provision my systems. I have this sort of thing working:

core@limiting-factor:~/clj-ordo$ sops -h
-bash: sops: command not found
core@limiting-factor:~/clj-ordo$ sudo bb -x ordo.tasks.sops/install
2026-05-04T09:04:56.803Z limiting-factor INFO [ordo.download:45] - Downloading 
2026-05-04T09:05:01.552Z limiting-factor INFO [ordo.download:53] - Checking sha256sum
2026-05-04T09:05:02.471Z limiting-factor INFO [ordo.filesystem:47] - Installing file /usr/local/bin/sops
core@limiting-factor:~/clj-ordo$ sops -h
NAME:
   sops - sops - encrypted file editor with AWS KMS, GCP KMS, HuaweiCloud KMS, Azure Key Vault, age, and GPG support

Cool. I managed to spend some time on my side project.

What is your side project?

updating the design with help of Claude Design, certainly looks better than standard claude (which was all ready a lot better compared to my styling skills)

https://bootkiezen.nl/ technically we are live. but only two boats added so far.

Nice!

thanks, new design is a lot better IMHO. it will have a dark/light theme even!

Web design is not one of my strengths, the last site I made looks like this: https://planet.guix.gnu.org/ That was a result of a little foray into Guile Scheme.

that looks quite good actually. but yeah... I am not a designer... nor am I a CSS expert. it involves lots of trying and looking up stuff.

LLM fill in that gap nicely

Yeah, there is plenty of training data for web frontend so it's something LLMs should be good at.

they are pretty good at SQL as well. Claude sometimes uses tricks I wasn't aware of. and I do understand what is happening in them, so it not as it creates stuff I don't understand.

I used to write a lot of SQL, but my recent (work) projects have all used DynamoDB, which was a moderately unpleasant experience.

I can write SQL.. but have to look up most things as I don't do it on a daily basis. never used D DB.

The first project I used it on was a migration from PostgreSQL to DDB, it had a low traffic volume and fell into the DynamoDB free tier so was a decent cost saving over a H/A RDS PostgreSQL setup. The company I'm working for now is going in the other direction, from DynamoDB to PostgreSQL, but they have much more traffic (so significant DynamoDB bill) and their application will benefit from the referential integrity that comes with a relational schema.

One of my colleagues has done the schema design using Claude...

I'd certainly review that. but it is most likely a very good starting point.

Yes, it will have a couple of rounds of review and testing before we move forward with it.

👍

hopefully you'll get the advantages you are expecting

🤞

and otherwise you'll have to migrate to Rama 😉

I'd like them to introduce event sourcing before they start the migration, so we can have both old and new database code handle the same events for testing, and as a tool in the migration. But I fear they won't heed my advice because of the up-front work. Consequently I think this project has a high probability of failure.

maybe you can make a copy of the insert/update statements and use that as a source.

It's a bit more complicated, I haven't told you the whole story...

of course, makes sense.

how did it go ?

Morning! We were back home early afternoon and she's been up and about, using her walker and doing her PT exercises. Pain level is higher than the first surgery (maybe they used less spinal block this time?) but manageable -- and they gave her a full week of oxy this time. They only gave her a few days, last time, and then she had to fight for refills -- I think this time will be less fighting because the surgeon knows she's "safe" with opioids? In-home PT visits start this afternoon -- same gal who visited her in January.

I hope the op goes well and that she makes a speedy recovery.

Sterkte!

Thanks!