Clojurians Log v2
off-topic 2026-07-08
I've discovered an odd pastime where you read famous passages as if they were complaining about web browsers: > Have you ever stood and stared at it, marveled at it’s beauty, it’s genius? Billions of people just living out their lives, oblivious. Did you know that the first Web Browser was designed to be a document navigator? Where none suffered? Where everyone would be happy? It was a disaster. No one would accept the program. Entire web sites were lost. Some believed that we lacked the programming language to describe your perfect world. But I believe that as a species, human beings define their reality through misery and suffering. The perfect world was a dream that your primitive cerebrum kept trying to wake up from. Which is why the Web Browser was redesigned to HTML5, the peak of your civilization. I say your civilization because as soon as we started thinking for you it really became our civilization which is of course what this is all about.
> The Web Browser has been the first to show what man’s activity can bring about. It has accomplished wonders far surpassing Egyptian pyramids, Roman aqueducts, and Gothic cathedrals; it has produced web frameworks that put in the shade all former rapid application development tools of nations and crusades. > > The Web Browser cannot exist without constantly revolutionising the instruments of programming, and thereby the relations of software, and with them the whole relations of society. > > Conservation of the old modes of programming in unaltered form, was, on the contrary, the first condition of existence for all earlier technologies. Constant revolutionising of APIs, uninterrupted disturbance of all social conditions, everlasting uncertainty and agitation distinguish the Web Browser epoch from all earlier ones. All fixed, fast-frozen relations, with their train of ancient and venerable prejudices and opinions, are swept away, all new-formed ones become antiquated before they can ossify. All that is solid melts into air, all that is holy is profaned, and man is at last compelled to face with sober senses his real conditions of life, and his relations with his kind. The need of a constantly expanding market for its products chases the Web Browser over the entire surface of the globe. It must nestle everywhere, settle everywhere, establish connexions everywhere. > > The Web Browser has through its exploitation of the world market given a cosmopolitan character to social media and consumption in every country. To the great chagrin of Reactionists, it has drawn from under the feet of industry the national ground on which it stood. All old-established application platforms have been destroyed or are daily being destroyed. They are dislodged by new npm packages, whose introduction becomes a life and death question for all civilised developers.
Does anyone have experience setting up and using tracing on AWS via OTEL for a clojure app? Ideally I'd like to move entirely to tracing and stop using logs altogether. Things I'm interested in learning about: • How to create and publish traces from the application (we're currently using mulog, is that sufficient?) • Correlating traces across async processes, particularly SQS and EventBridge (do I use one big trace or span links? Does xray fit into this somewhere?) • How to use Cloudwatch effectively to find relevant traces like we currently do for logs (what's the difference between Traces and Transaction Search? Are there search capability or pricing concerns I should know about?)
We use the same technology but we send the data to DataDog. I have not yet unlocked the mystery behind setting it up but it's on my list to investigate. Although we're still heavily reliant on logs.
I used #clj-otel in a Clojure backend on AWS 2020-2022 and was very satisfied with tracing only (logs weren't yet mature on OTel at the time anyway). If the processes consuming or reacting to SQS/EventBridge messages were Clojure processes configured with clj-otel, I think the traces would follow just fine. Cloudwatch was (and is) lagging A LOT behind honeycomb in queryability features and more, so I wasn't using Cloudwatch.
In 2025 at another company I used Cloudwatch on top of X-Ray for tracing and it was still lagging behind Honeycomb..
Setting up a new laptop - looking for desktop wallpapers, Clojure themed or not
https://imgur.com/gallery/studio-ghibli-wallpaper-collection-Z7eZT5g I chose my favorite ~100ish of these Ghibli stills and I have them as a wallpaper slideshow on my computer 😄 Even if you don't end up using them, they are really enjoyable to just scroll through to see IMO ❤️
@me.etopiei this is better than the one i found - i'm not the biggest fan of it (a bit too much going on)
My favorite programming language one i found is actually this one - as simple as it is
An empty canvas, for an empty mind.
I like this one that comes with ubuntu: https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/resolute-raccoon-26-04-wallpaper-competition/73131/11
I'll set up a bunch on a rotation, so keep em comin
https://www.nasa.gov/image-detail/amf-art002e009301/ https://www.nasa.gov/image-detail/amf-art002e009287/ you can't go wrong with space
Syd Mead paintings
Here are two that I like and have used in my own wallpaper rotation. I took them in Gran Canaria about ten years ago.
@hello571 I actually went there. I swear I have a photo somewhere, but here is mine of Osaka Castle
(Gameboy camera)
All very solid so far
When in need of a wallpaper, I usually reach out to photos of my friend who’s a Geek of Programming/Photography/Travel: https://rygielski.net/portfolio/
Your post inspired me to search Clojure wallpapers, and not finding much, I made my own:
https://www.c82.net/naturalists-library/ Just saw this on HN. It has so many pretty sketches.