diff --git a/README.org b/README.org
index 3e4530d7..12901b0a 100644
--- a/README.org
+++ b/README.org
@@ -202,6 +202,9 @@ Let's also set org-mode as the scratch buffer mode
 #+end_src
 
 ** Let's bootstrap straight.el
+:PROPERTIES:
+:ID:       20230524T150405.435338
+:END:
 Before bootstrapping straight, I've begun to move more and more of my configurations into Nix. To ensure that the packages used by Nix are loaded and straight defers to that, let's make sure they are found in the load path first.
 #+begin_src emacs-lisp
 (dolist (path load-path)
@@ -296,7 +299,23 @@ Let's make parens and other delimiters easier to tell apart by making nested one
 #+begin_src emacs-lisp
 (use-package smartparens
   :config
-  (smartparens-global-mode +1))
+  (smartparens-global-mode +1)
+  :general
+  ('normal lisp-mode-map
+           "gl" 'sp-forward-slurp-sexp
+           "gh" 'sp-backward-slurp-sexp
+           "C-l" 'sp-forward-sexp
+           "C-h" 'sp-backward-sexp)
+  ('normal cider-repl-mode-map
+           "gl" 'sp-forward-slurp-sexp
+           "gh" 'sp-backward-slurp-sexp
+           "C-l" 'sp-forward-sexp
+           "C-h" 'sp-backward-sexp)
+  ('normal clojurescript-mode-map
+           "gl" 'sp-forward-slurp-sexp
+           "gh" 'sp-backward-slurp-sexp
+           "C-l" 'sp-forward-sexp
+           "C-h" 'sp-backward-sexp))
 #+end_src
 
 #+begin_src emacs-lisp
@@ -2835,6 +2854,21 @@ Friar is a fennel repl in the awesome repl. It allows you to interact with Aweso
              :files (:defaults "*.lua" "*.fnl"))
   :after fennel-mode)
 #+end_src
+*** Clojure
+#+begin_src emacs-lisp
+;; First install the package:
+(use-package flycheck-clj-kondo
+  :ensure t)
+
+;; then install the checker as soon as `clojure-mode' is loaded
+(use-package clojure-mode
+  :ensure t
+  :config
+  (require 'flycheck-clj-kondo))
+
+(use-package cider
+  :after clojure-mode)
+#+end_src
 
 *** Yaml
 
diff --git a/init.el b/init.el
index 24dca6b8..ecfeeb33 100644
--- a/init.el
+++ b/init.el
@@ -131,7 +131,23 @@
 
 (use-package smartparens
   :config
-  (smartparens-global-mode +1))
+  (smartparens-global-mode +1)
+  :general
+  ('normal lisp-mode-map
+           "gl" 'sp-forward-slurp-sexp
+           "gh" 'sp-backward-slurp-sexp
+           "C-l" 'sp-forward-sexp
+           "C-h" 'sp-backward-sexp)
+  ('normal cider-repl-mode-map
+           "gl" 'sp-forward-slurp-sexp
+           "gh" 'sp-backward-slurp-sexp
+           "C-l" 'sp-forward-sexp
+           "C-h" 'sp-backward-sexp)
+  ('normal clojurescript-mode-map
+           "gl" 'sp-forward-slurp-sexp
+           "gh" 'sp-backward-slurp-sexp
+           "C-l" 'sp-forward-sexp
+           "C-h" 'sp-backward-sexp))
 
 (use-package aggressive-indent
   :config
@@ -2087,6 +2103,19 @@ targets."
 (use-package fennel-mode
   :mode ("\\.fnl\\'" . fennel-mode))
 
+;; First install the package:
+(use-package flycheck-clj-kondo
+  :ensure t)
+
+;; then install the checker as soon as `clojure-mode' is loaded
+(use-package clojure-mode
+  :ensure t
+  :config
+  (require 'flycheck-clj-kondo))
+
+(use-package cider
+  :after clojure-mode)
+
 (use-package yaml-mode
   :mode ("\\.yml\\'" . yaml-mode))
 
diff --git a/recentf b/recentf
index 9808dfcf..5e9eb277 100644
--- a/recentf
+++ b/recentf
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-;;; Automatically generated by ‘recentf’ on Fri May 19 05:38:43 2023.
+;;; Automatically generated by ‘recentf’ on Sat May 20 05:45:25 2023.
 
 (setq recentf-list 'nil)