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+# Clojurist Together Update 1
+
+#### 2023-07-15
+
+## TL;DR
+
+It was a little busy lately so my update is a bit uneventful.
+But my summer holidays are coming and I hope to spend some quality time working on making the Lucene library a little easier to use for the fellow Clojurists.
+
+## Context
+
+The goal of the project is to tear apart `lucene-grep` project into a bunch of libraries.
+`lucene-grep` is a CLI app that was created to scratch an itch of making Lucene to be compiled by GraalVM native image during the COVID lockdowns.
+Due to the nature of the effort the code was not designed to be used elsewhere.
+By participating in the Clojurist Together I want to refactor and re-design the existing codebase for reuse.
+
+## Updates
+
+As of now, out of the `lucene-grep` 3 libraries are extracted:
+- [lucene-custom-analyzer](https://github.com/dainiusjocas/lucene-custom-analyzer): data-driven Lucene Analyzers; 
+- [lucene-query-parsing](https://github.com/dainiusjocas/lucene-query-parsing): data-driven Lucene Query Parsers;
+- [lucene-text-analysis](https://github.com/dainiusjocas/lucene-text-analysis): helpers to play with the Lucene Analyzers.
+
+All these libraries were updated to depend on the newest Lucene version.
+I hope to write proper blog posts and/or demo apps with potential uses of the libraries.
+
+## Other things I've worked on
+
+I've been having fun with other hacks.
+
+### The new GraalVM
+
+I've upgrade `lucene-grep` to be compiled with the new [GraalVM](https://github.com/dainiusjocas/lucene-grep/commit/7343db1413ef5d3c1c89547b091a1bdb7c5d2fe2).
+The biggest adventure there was that GraalVM changed the way how compile time environment variables are used.
+Now, the env vars should be passed with `-E` [property](https://www.graalvm.org/latest/reference-manual/native-image/overview/BuildOptions/#non-standard-options) e.g. `-ELMGREP_FEATURE_STEMPEL=true`.
+
+### Clerk based publishing 
+
+I've set up a publishing system based on [Clerk](https://github.com/nextjournal/clerk) and Github Pages: [journal](https://www.jocas.lt/journal/), [source](https://github.com/dainiusjocas/journal).
+Hopefully, in the Journal I'll publish proper writeups and presentations of the work I'm about to do in this project.
+
+## What is next?
+
+In the coming months I want to design a Clojure library to use the Lucene Monitor Library.
+
+## That is it!
+
+---
+
+P.S. A huge shout-out for [Clojurist Together](https://www.clojuriststogether.org) for sponsoring my open source work!