After a few weeks of hacking and furtive hosting of alpha code and alpha-er content, I think the blog's ready to have more eyeballs on it. It's mostly a vehicle for sharing Clojang project code snippets, clarifying documentation (and then using that to go update the docs!), provide updates on version releases, and maybe even share the occasional experiment. Though it should be fairly low-volume and low-impact, it seemed like a nice way increase the contact area for curious developers who have to (or want to!) straddle the two very different worlds of the JVM (Clojure in particular) and BEAM.

I might not ever have created a dedicated blog for Clojang, but there's been a growing interest among fellow LFErs and BEAMers in general, as well as from curious Clojurians. After the 5th or 6th recent conversation, it was time to do something. One comment in particular, that I should create a STATUS.md file in the one or more repos really motivated me to do something about a Clojang blog.

For the archivally inclined, the following notes may be of interest. I've been able to reconstruct the older posts from old notes, repositories, and emails, but the furthest back I could find was work I was doing on Maxim Molchanov's erlang-clojure-node repository. There was work done earlier, but I can't find it anywhere, since I don't think any of that got committed. However, it wasn't any time before the end of 2013, so I didn't lose much :-)

There was also some forking I did of Arnaud Wetzel's clojure-erlastic repository, but which has since been deleted from Github since that was abandoned and a completely different tack was chosen. I do have an older repo of that on disk somewhere, so if anyone's interested, I can push it up to a Clojang attic ...

Anyway, all this is to say that most of the important stuff has been preserved and the interesting bits are now either in the various Clojang repos or they've been published on the blog.

One last thing: comments are on the way ... but they will be a bit unusual: each blog post that has comments enabled will link to a dedicated ticket on Github