Ies Flox

ies-flox

FloxHub publication bmorphism/ies - a focused development environment for Clojure, Julia, Python, and multimedia with Gay.jl/Gay.bb deterministic coloring integration.

Interleaving with effective-topos

Connection Points

• Clojure ↔ Guile: Both Lisps, both support reader macros
• Julia ↔ OCaml: Both ML-influenced, both have ADTs
• ffmpeg ↔ imagemagick: Media processing pipelines
• tailscale ↔ guile-goblins: Distributed networking

Quick Activation

# Activate
flox activate -d ~/ies

# Environment includes
echo $GAY_SEED      # 69
echo $GAY_PORT      # 42069
echo $GAY_INTERVAL  # 30

Installed Packages (10)

Babashka (Clojure Scripting)

#!/usr/bin/env bb

;; Fast Clojure scripting without JVM startup
;; Includes: http, json, csv, yaml, sql, shell, fs

(require '[babashka.http-client :as http])
(require '[cheshire.core :as json])

;; HTTP request
(-> (http/get "https://api.github.com/users/bmorphism")
    :body
    (json/parse-string true)
    :public_repos)

;; File operations
(require '[babashka.fs :as fs])
(fs/glob "." "**/*.clj")

;; Shell commands
(require '[babashka.process :as p])
(-> (p/shell "ls -la") :out slurp)

;; Tasks in bb.edn
{:tasks
 {:build (shell "make")
  :test  (shell "make test")
  :repl  (babashka.nrepl.server/start-server! {:port 1667})}}

Babashka + Gay Integration

;; gay.bb - deterministic coloring for Clojure
(def gay-seed (parse-long (or (System/getenv "GAY_SEED") "69")))

(defn splitmix64 [state]
  (let [z (unchecked-add state 0x9e3779b97f4a7c15)]
    [(unchecked-multiply
       (bit-xor z (unsigned-bit-shift-right z 30))
       0xbf58476d1ce4e5b9)
     z]))

(defn gay-color [index seed]
  (let [[h _] (splitmix64 (+ seed index))
        hue (mod (/ (bit-and h 0xFFFF) 65535.0) 1.0)]
    {:hue hue
     :hex (format "#%06X" (bit-and h 0xFFFFFF))}))

Julia Integration

# julia --project=$GAY_MCP_PROJECT
using Gay

# Environment seed
const SEED = parse(Int, get(ENV, "GAY_SEED", "69"))
Gay.set_seed!(SEED)

# Color IES packages
ies_packages = [
    "babashka", "clojure", "jdk", "julia-bin", "ffmpeg",
    "python312", "coreutils", "tailscale", "enchant2", "pkg-config"
]

for (i, pkg) in enumerate(ies_packages)
    color = Gay.color_at(i)
    println("$pkg: $(color.hex)")
end

FFmpeg Quick Reference

# Convert formats
ffmpeg -i input.mov -c:v libx264 output.mp4

# Extract audio
ffmpeg -i video.mp4 -vn -c:a aac audio.m4a

# Resize video
ffmpeg -i input.mp4 -vf scale=1280:720 output.mp4

# Create GIF
ffmpeg -i input.mp4 -vf "fps=10,scale=320:-1" output.gif

# Concatenate
ffmpeg -f concat -i list.txt -c copy output.mp4

# Screen capture (macOS)
ffmpeg -f avfoundation -i "1" -t 10 capture.mp4

# Stream to stdout
ffmpeg -i input.mp4 -f mpegts - | ...

Clojure (JVM)

# Start REPL
clj

# With aliases
clj -A:dev:test

# Run script
clojure -M -m myapp.core

# Dependency tree
clj -Stree

# Execute function
clojure -X:deploy

# deps.edn structure
{:deps {org.clojure/clojure {:mvn/version "1.12.0"}}
 :aliases {:dev {:extra-paths ["dev"]}}}

Python Integration

#!/usr/bin/env python3
"""Gay.py - port of Gay.jl for Python"""

def splitmix64(state: int) -> tuple[int, int]:
    z = (state + 0x9e3779b97f4a7c15) & 0xFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF
    z = ((z ^ (z >> 30)) * 0xBF58476D1CE4E5B9) & 0xFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF
    z = ((z ^ (z >> 27)) * 0x94D049BB133111EB) & 0xFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF
    return z ^ (z >> 31), state

def gay_color(index: int, seed: int = 69) -> str:
    h, _ = splitmix64(seed + index)
    return f"#{h & 0xFFFFFF:06X}"

# Color IES packages
packages = ["babashka", "clojure", "jdk", "julia-bin", "ffmpeg"]
for i, pkg in enumerate(packages, 1):
    print(f"{pkg}: {gay_color(i)}")

Services

# From manifest.toml
[services]
gaybb.command = "./gaybb_daemon.sh"
gaybb.shutdown.command = "pkill -f gaybb_daemon"

# Start Gay.bb daemon
flox services start

# Check status
flox services status

# Stop
flox services stop

Tailscale Integration

# Connect to tailnet
tailscale up

# Check status
tailscale status

# SSH to peer
tailscale ssh hostname

# Serve locally
tailscale serve http://localhost:8080

# Funnel (public internet)
tailscale funnel https://localhost:443

Tailscale + Gay.bb

;; Use tailscale for Gay.bb peer discovery
(require '[babashka.process :as p])

(defn tailscale-peers []
  (-> (p/shell {:out :string} "tailscale status --json")
      :out
      (json/parse-string true)
      :Peer
      vals
      (->> (map :HostName))))

(defn broadcast-gay-seed! [seed]
  (doseq [peer (tailscale-peers)]
    (p/shell (format "tailscale ssh %s 'export GAY_SEED=%d'" peer seed))))

Aliases

# From profile
alias gaybb="bb gay.bb"
alias gaymcp="julia --project=$GAY_MCP_PROJECT $GAY_MCP_PROJECT/bin/gay-mcp"

Connection to effective-topos

The ies-flox environment is designed to interoperate with effective-topos:

# Activate both environments
flox activate -d ~/.topos  # effective-topos (guile, ghc, cargo)
flox activate -d ~/ies     # ies-flox (bb, julia, ffmpeg)

# Or compose them
cd ~/ies
flox edit  # Add include:
# [include]
# environments = [{ remote = "bmorphism/effective-topos" }]

Triadic Workflow

Trit 0 (Analysis):    julia → analyze data
Trit 1 (Transform):   bb → process with Clojure
Trit 2 (Output):      ffmpeg → render media

;; bb pipeline
(defn triadic-pipeline [input-file]
  (let [;; Trit 0: Julia analysis
        analysis (-> (p/shell {:out :string} 
                       (format "julia -e 'using JSON; println(JSON.json(analyze(\"%s\")))'" 
                               input-file))
                     :out
                     json/parse-string)
        ;; Trit 1: Clojure transform
        transformed (transform-data analysis)
        ;; Trit 2: FFmpeg render
        _ (p/shell (format "ffmpeg -i %s -vf 'eq=gamma=%f' output.mp4"
                           input-file
                           (:gamma transformed)))]
    {:analysis analysis
     :output "output.mp4"}))

FloxHub Publication

• Owner: bmorphism
• Name: ies
• URL: https://hub.flox.dev/bmorphism/ies
• Systems: aarch64-darwin, x86_64-darwin, aarch64-linux, x86_64-linux
• Man pages: 59
• Gay.jl seed: 69