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• Reflecting on XT16
• Colin Jones with a bold assertion that Clojure is boring
• Datomic web apps: a practical guide

Libraries & Books.

• A new library for managing Permissions
• Arachne Community Update 2
• Tracks is a library from Bryan Maass for declarative data manipulation. That sounds a bit boring, but check out the README, because it can do some pretty cool stuff!
• re-com 1.0.0 is out
• Cortex: A machine learning library for Clojure, has recently been open sourced, with more discussion on the Clojure mailing list
• zprint: A new (alpha) library for reformatting Clojure source code

People are worried about Types. ?

• Custom defn macro with clojure.spec: part 1, and part 2.

Foundations.

• A gentle introduction to Prolog, and The Clojure Atom has some more linksto Prolog tutorials
• In the discussion about machine learning for Clojure, Dragan Djuric had a particularly insightful post on high performance matrix operations.

Tools.

• Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the REPL, Zach Oakes releases Nightlight.
• Cider 0.14 (Berlin) has been released

Waiting for 1.9.

• The defn podcast interviewed Alex Miller, and scooped some things about Clojure’s development I hadn’t heard before, including that there may be more features coming to Clojure 1.9, and that it is unlikely to be released this year.
• CLJS-1817 fixes a bug in the PersistentHashmap implementation
• ASYNC-159: promise-chan is broken in ClojureScript 

Learning.

• XT16 conference notes
• Lambda Island on using JavaScript libraries in ClojureScript
• How to create decentralised apps with ClojureScript, re-frame, and Ethereum
• How we test our full-stack Clojure app
• Clojure and AWS Serverless, an introduction