Code & CLI

Slab is a programmable markup language that simplifies the creation of HTML. It combines concise notation with standard programming constructs to create reusable web content more efficiently.

Flexoki is an inky color scheme for prose and code. Flexoki is designed for reading and writing on digital screens. It is inspired by analog inks and warm shades of paper. Flexoki is minimalistic and high-contrast. The colors are calibrated for legibility and perceptual balance across devices and when switching between light and dark modes.

themer takes a set of colors and generates editor themes, terminal themes, themes for other apps, and desktop wallpapers.

Turns any web page into a work of procedurally generated blackout poetry!

This piece is about pictures drawn using a text character set and then embedded in source code. I love these! The other day I asked around on Twitter for more examples and the responses far exceeded expectations (thanks everyone!). There are a ton of great examples in the thread; here I’ve categorized a few of them. Click on images go to the repositories.

This essay explains how Git works. It assumes you understand Git well enough to use it to version control your projects. The essay focuses on the graph structure that underpins Git and the way the properties of this graph dictate Git’s behavior. Looking at fundamentals, you build your mental model on the truth rather than on hypotheses constructed from evidence gathered while experimenting with the API.

Rick Rubin brings ancient wisdom to the modern age in The Way of Code, a meditation on the art and science of vibe coding. With Claude by Anthropic, the Grammy-award winning producer and author of The Creative Act turns philosophy into practice with artifacts that can be creatively modified with AI.

A tutorial on the workflow from Markdown texts to beautiful PDFs /

So many Markdown guides are either too complicated or really hard to read. I thought I’d try to fix that with a super simple, clear guide.

Notes on a revolution in slow motion.

A strongly defined, highly compatible specification of Markdown

Convert any webpage to a clean markdown w/ images downloaded.

I love the sensation of finding a new app that delights me.

Prettify your github profile using this amazing readme generator. GitHub Profile README Generator is an OSS (Open Source Software) that provides a cool interface to generate GitHub profile README in (JSON) markdown.

A markdown-like journal language for plainly writing logs, Gantt charts, blogs, feeds, notes, journals, diaries, todos, timelines, calendars or anything that happens over time .

WordPress Export to Markdown is a CLI tool (a Node script) that helps you migrate from WordPress to a static site generator (like Eleventy, for example)

Update: Added macOS Trash integration. While GNU/Linux had been my operating system of choice for many years, these days I'm primarily on macOS. Luck...

Emacs in Pink is your Friend. An explanation of how I use Emacs I'm honoured that you all have invited me to share my thoughts, and I especially appreciate the $50,000 advanced speakers' fee. A lot of people have asked me to write down how I use Emacs because they're curious how I use it every day since about a year. First thing you should know: I'm not a programmer.

A description of how I currently use org-mode

I’ve been pretty much living in org-mode for 6 or 7 years now1. It’s my exocortex, second brain, second mind, mind palace, pensive, and personal knowledge management system2. The features and tools I use as well as how I organize my files has changed quite a bit over this period of time and I thought it would be nice give myself (and anyone else who cares) a reference of what it was like in 2023 so here it is.

I saw this gif on reddit and I just had to recreate it! http://i.imgur.com/Mx1bZ2f.gif...

AI Use Disclaimer: I wrote this post and then GPT-4 fixed my grammer and spelling

If you’re like me, from time-to-time you’ll come across tasks that should be done in the terminal. But as you’re not very familiar with it, you wince a bit, and then just paste whatever they say, and hope for the best. The guide might also assume you know a bunch of concepts, that you don’t really understand. Like, why do some commands start with $?

Utility to import content from multiple services (and a CLI, too) - 11ty/eleventy-import

A collection of the best CLI/Ncurses software covering a wide range of categories from messaging, music, text editing and more.

An open-source guide to help you write better command-line programs, taking traditional UNIX principles and updating them for the modern day.

I don't actively use a terminal emulator app on my computer anymore, and use tweety instead from my web browser. I think you should consider doing the same.