What I learned in February 2021

xonsh

Xonsh is a Python-powered, cross-platform, Unix-gazing shell language and command prompt. The language is a superset of Python 3.5+ with additional shell primitives that you are used to from Bash and IPython. It works on all major systems including Linux, Mac OSX, and Windows. Xonsh is meant for the daily use of experts and novices alike. The Xonsh Shell

Mermaid Diagrams

“Diagramming and documentation costs precious developer time and gets outdated quickly. But not having diagrams or docs ruins productivity and hurts organisational learning.

Mermaid addresses this Catch-22 by cutting the time, effort and tooling that is required to create modifiable diagrams and charts, for smarter and more reusable content. Mermaid, as a text-based diagramming tool allows for quick and easy updates, it can also be made part of production scripts (and other pieces of code), to make documentation much easier. With Mermaid less time needs to be spent on making diagrams, as a separate documentation task.”

mermaid - Markdownish syntax for generating flowcharts, sequence diagrams, class diagrams, gantt charts and git graphs.

Chartist

“CHARTIST - SIMPLE RESPONSIVE CHARTS You may think that this is just yet an other charting library. But Chartist.js is the product of a community that was disappointed about the abilities provided by other charting libraries. Of course there are hundreds of other great charting libraries but after using them there were always tweaks you would have wished for that were not included.” - Chartist - Simple responsive charts

Font Awesome

“Get vector icons and social logos on your website with Font Awesome, the web’s most popular icon set and toolkit. Font Awesome

Thought Asylum

ThoughtAsylum is a web site created by Stephen Millard which contains all sorts of automation code primarily for Mac based productivity software.

Tadpole

“The ThoughtAsylum Drafts Library, also known as TADpoLe, is a collection of JavaScript for working with the Drafts application.” - ThoughtAsylum Drafts Library I used the export action to post this content directly from Drafts.

Optic

https://github.com/opticdev/optic#try-optic

Swift By Example

Will I get around to reading this?

Ambergris

Although the properties of ambergris have been known for centuries–and also its uses as medicine, condiment, aphrodisiac, and perfume­–its origins remain somewhat mysterious, and are still the subject of study and debate…