Tag: scripting
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{{ site.webexcsponsor.affiliate2.start }} Running a CPU benchmark on Apple Silicon M1 Peter Forret created a cool bash script that performs a cpu benchmark using ffmpeg and primitive. If you fork the repo and run it, you can commit the results and create a pull request to add them to the repo. Nobody seems to have…
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Have you ever wished you could turn your local network into a smart routing system? Instead of remembering IP addresses and ports, what if you could use simple, memorable URLs that trigger workflows, redirect to services, or even search your notes? That’s exactly what dy.lan does. It’s a self-hosted URL router with a plugin architecture…
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I’ve updated my Markdown to Sendy script with the ability to use “sliced” images with separate links, the ability to upload assets to a CDN automatically, and a “test email” mode that will actually send a test email to you without going through Sendy. If you haven’t heard of mdtosendy before, it’s a Ruby script…
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I’ve been using my changelog script for years to generate release notes from git commit messages. It’s saved me countless hours and helped me maintain complete, informative changelogs across all my projects. I wrote changelog in 2017 and mentioned it back in 2024. I’ve used it for every project I’ve worked on since then, and…
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I’ve made a couple of improvements to md-fixup, the opinionated Markdown formatting and linting tool I shared this week. The main additions are better emphasis handling and link conversion options. Emphasis Handling By default, md-fixup normalizes bold markers to __ (double underscore) and italic markers to * (single asterisk). So **bold** becomes __bold__ and _italic_…
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I have some strong opinions about how Markdown should look. Liberal line breaks everywhere. ATX headers with exactly one space after the #. Consistent list indentation using tabs. Tables that are properly aligned. And on and on. So I made Markdown Fixup (md-fixup). Building My Own Tool I just wanted a tool to fix my…
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One of the things I love about Howzit is how it bridges the gap between simple task lists and full automation. You can write quick (or complex) scripts right in your build notes and, with the latest updates, they can communicate back to Howzit in useful ways. The latest updates make this even easier with…
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Happy New Year! I spent some time this morning developing some features for Howzit that I think will be really useful (at least for me). Howzit is my tool for documenting my project structure/build/deploy/CI methods and instructions, with the ability to execute code from the Markdown documentation. I use it in every project I create,…
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I’ve been working a bit more on mdtosendy, my Ruby script for converting Markdown to email-ready HTML, and recently added a multi-template system that makes it much more flexible for managing different email designs. To read more about the inspiration and initial development of mdtosendy, see the blog post I wrote a couple of days…
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I’m sure some mailing list services handle Markdown to HTML conversion, but I use Sendy, and it doesn’t. It doesn’t really even have a decent WYSIWYG editor. I wanted to create good-looking emails while just writing in Markdown, like I do everywhere else. You can jump straight to the script with details and installation instructions…