visual-tools: regular updates & discussions around building visual tooling

The visual-tools group

📅Follow our meetings on the Clojure Calendar Feed📅

The goal of this group is to create collaborations in learning and building Clojure tools data visualization, literate programming, and UI design.

The authors of several actively developed tools have been involved in offering talks and collaborating in this space (Chlorine, Clover, Calva and its Notebooks, Portal, Viscous, Sidebar, Nette, Fabricate, Omni-trace, Oz, Saite, Notespace, Clay, Claykind, Goldly, Saturn, clt-tiles, Obsidian Wielder, Cardigan Bay, Platypub, Data Rabbit, Clerk, Mosaic, MetaREPL, Meyvn, badspreadsheet, Noj, ggclj, Space-Age, FlowStorm, Clojure Sublimed, docker-nrepl.el, nrepl-ws-server, nrepl-ws-client, etc.).

Our meetings are announced on the Clojure Calendar Feed.

• Wish to present on a meetup? Please reach out

• Meeting 34 (May 18th 2025): Clojure in WASM, docker-nrepl.el, nrepl-ws-server, nrepl-ws-client, Clay UI - 🎥 summary & partial recording (the raw recording was shared internally in the chat)

• Meeting 33 (Mar 27th 2025): Workflow Demos 7 - Clojure Sublimed, Sublime Executor, clj-reload, clojure-plus, Clay - 🎥 summary & recording

• Meeting 32 (Mar 26th 2025): Workflow Demos 6 - old-school tools, REPL, Emacs, Org-mode, AI, MCP, & more - 🎥 summary & recording

• Meeting 31 (Mar 24th 2025): Workflow Demos 5 - Clay - 🎥 summary & recording

• Meeting 30 (Jan 23rd 2025): Workflow Demos 4: LLMs in Emacs for Clojure - 🎥 summary & recording

• Meeting 29 (Jan 15th 2025): Workflow Demos 3 - Flowstorm - 🎥 summary & recording

• Meeting 28 (Jan 7rd 2025): Workflow Demos 2 - Emacs CIDER, Portal, Snitch, clj-reload, Cursive, Neovim Conjure, Parinfer - 🎥 summary & recording

• Meeting 27 (Jan 3rd 2025): Workflow Demos 1 - Emacs, CIDER, VSCode Calva, Zulip 🎥 summary & recording

• Meeting 26 (June 16th 2024): Gemini, Space-Age, protocols from the REPL - 🎥 summary & recording

• Meeting 25 (June 7th 2024): keg-party - 🎥 summary & recording

• Meeting 24 (Apr. 26th 2024): badspreadsheet & HTMX - 🎥 summary & recording

• Meeting 23 (Apr. 7th 2024): ggplot study session 3 - 🎥 summary & recording

• Meeting 22 (Mar. 17th 2024): ggplot study session 2 - 🎥 summary & recording

• Meeting 21 (Feb. 25th 2024): ggplot study session 1 - 🎥 summary & recording

• Meetings 20 (Dec. 1st 2023): Various updates - 🎥 summary & recording

• Meeting 19 (July 7th 2023): Electric - 📆 event (log in to Clojureverse to view)

• Meeting 18 (May 27th 2023): Mosaic and other updates - 🎥 summary & recording

• Meeting 17 (April 1st 2023): various updates - 🎥 summary & recording

• Meeting 16 (Nov. 19th 2022): Calva Notebooks and Portal - 🎥 summary & recording

• Meeting 15 (Oct. 23th 2022): a common ground for notes with Kindly - 🎥 summary & recording

• Meeting 14 - special meeting (Oct. 20th 2022): Clerk workshop - event (not recorded)

• Meeting 13 - monthly (Oct. 14th 2022): Interactive visualizations: Shiny, Shadow-cljs, Clay - 🎥 summary & recording

• Meeting 12 - special meeting (Sep. 9h 2022): Data Rabbit - 🎥 summary & recording

• Meeting 11 - monthly meeting (Sep. 2th 2022): tooling for learning resources - 🎥 summary & recording

• Meeting 10 - monthly meeting (Aug. 5th 2022): Oz - 🎥 summary & recording

• Meeting 9 - general monthly (July 2nd 2022): clj-tiles, Obsidian Wielder, Cardigan Bay, Platypub - 🎥 summary & recording

• Meeting 8 - general monthly (June 3rd 2022): data cookbook, goldly studio, re-frame state management - 🎥 summary & recording

• Meeting 7 - a deep dive into Saturn (May. 27th 2022) - 🎥 summary & recording

• Meeting 6 - general monthly (May. 6th 2022) - 🎥 summary & recording

• Meeting 5 - general monthly (Apr. 2nd 2022) - 🎥 summary & recording

• Meeting 4 - studying Clerk internals (Mar. 25th 2022) - 🎥 summary & recording

• Meeting 3 - general montlhy meeting (Mar. 5th 2022) - 🎥 summary & recording

• Meeting 2 - compatibility across tools (Feb. 19th 2022) - 🎥 summary & recording

• Meeting 1 - the beginning (Feb. 4th 2022) - 🎥 [summary & recording](https://clojureverse.org/t/visual-tools-meeting-1-summary-video/**.

Meeting videos Playlist at the Scicloj channel

Chat stream: #visual-tools at Clojurians Zulip and at Clojurians Slack

Resources: You are invited to add your experiments and notes.

• relevant tools and libraries

• scicloj/visual-tools-experiments - repo for collaboration.

• common notes - from meetings, etc.

• background - the visual tools session at the re:Clojure Data Science Special (Dec. 5th 2021), overviewing some of the relevant tools in the field

• Video status reports:

  • Mar. 13th, 2022, Visual tools compatibility - describing the Portal-Clerk-Kindly-nREPL experiment