A gh Alias For json Data

The GitHub command-line tool gh has a number of commands that can return json data. For example, this command returns the two fields of data …

Canary Islands

Today I spoke with a Ukranian entrepreneur now living in the Canary Islands. I didn’t know the population of the islands exceeds 2 …

An llm Plugin Hack

The llm package from Simon Willison has a plugin architecture. So I decided to try it. Any reasonable person would begin with a new model …

Convert Between json and yaml With yq

One of my experimental projects involves fetching data from GitHub with gh, editing the output, and then posting the results back to GitHub. …

Willison's llm

Simon Willison has created a marvelous tool for experimenting with LLMs at the command line: llm. It employs a plugin architecture and …

Make Help

If you use make in your projects, providing simple help for users is a common problem. What targets exist? What do they do? If you use …

Jump to Next Row

A handful of records go into one of my Google Sheets on a daily basis. It’s most convenient to add them at the bottom, but scrolling …

Replacing pip with uv

Recently I discovered uv as a potential replacement for pip. A single use paid off the switching costs.

It has three main advantages over …

Welcome

“Alright, move on. Nothing to see here. Please disperse.”

– Frank Drebin