Generates random text from Markov chains of tagged source text.

An example text is included which was derived from Plato's Ion:

Have you already forgotten what you were saying?
A rhapsode ought to interpret the mind of the poet.
For the rhapsode ought to interpret the mind of the poet.
For the poet is a light and winged and holy thing,
and there is Phanosthenes of Andros,
and Heraclides of Clazomenae,
whom they have also appointed
to the command of their armies and to other offices,
although aliens, after they had shown their merit.
And will they not choose Ion the Ephesian to be their general,
and honour him, if he prove himself worthy?

Imagine mobile phones running a desirable operating system, at a reasonable cost. Not running Google or any other “data hungry” services.

And at the same time, mobile phone operating systems where personal and corporate users can install and use the mainstream applications of their choice, if they wish so.

That’s what /e/ is going to provide: attractive mobile phone operating systems with better privacy.

CLIs are a fantastic way to build products. Unlike web applications, they take a small fraction of the time to build and are much more powerful. With the web, you can do whatever the developer programmed. With CLIs, you can easily mash-up multiple tools together yourself to perform advanced tasks. They require more technical expertise to use, but still work well for admin tasks, power-user tasks, or developer products.

At Heroku, we’ve come up with a methodology called the 12 factor app. It’s a set of principles designed to make great web applications that are easy to maintain. In that spirit, here are 12 CLI factors to keep in mind when building your next CLI application. Following these principles will offer CLI UX that users will love.

We’ve also built a CLI framework called oclif that is designed to follow these principles to build great CLIs in Node.

For quite some time I’ve wanted to record a new video talking about code comments for my "writing system software" series on YouTube. However, after giving it some thought, I realized that the topic was better suited for a blog post, so here we are. In this post I analyze Redis comments, trying to categorize them.

Along the way I try to show why, in my opinion, writing comments is of paramount importance in order to produce good code, that is maintainable in the long run and understandable by others and by the authors during modifications and debugging activities.

The easiest way to start building decentralized blockchain apps.

• Get paid mining rewards if you build a popular app.
• Scale your app without limitations of the blockchain.
• Gain a competitive advantage by giving your users data ownership.

Welcome to the new Brave browser. Experience a faster, more private and secure browser for PC, Mac and iOS and Android. Block ads and trackers that slow you down, cost you money and invade your privacy. Join the Brave revolution, learn more.

Sharing files can be a pain. The larger the file is, the more difficulty it inevitably creates. If you want those files kept private, you're in for a real nightmare. Well, not exactly.

Onionshare is a relatively new application that allows you to share files of any size securely and relatively anonymously over the Tor network without the need for a "midde-man" website. It's completely free and open source, and it's actually easy for anyone to use.

fakernews builds a markov chain using the top 500 post titles on HN and generates fake HN posts.

This is an example program to demonstrate the capabilities of a Golang library to build Markov models.

molten is a minimal, extensible, fast and productive framework for building HTTP APIs with Python.

Meshbird create distributed private networking between servers, containers, virtual machines and any computers in different datacenters, different countries, different cloud providers. All traffic transmit directly to recepient peer without passing any gateways. Meshbird do not require any centralized servers. Meshbird is absolutly decentralized distributed private networking.

For example, user can create private network between DigitalOcean’s droplets in each datacenter and link it together by executing one command. All traffic will be encrypted with strong AES-256.

Tasky is a command-line interface to Google's Tasks API.

It is meant to parallel the functionality of Todo.txt.

I’ve been programming for 15 years now. Recently our industry’s lack of care for efficiency, simplicity, and excellence started really getting to me, to the point of me getting depressed by my own career and the IT in general.

Modern cars work, let’s say for the sake of argument, at 98% of what’s physically possible with the current engine design. Modern buildings use just enough material to fulfill their function and stay safe under the given conditions. All planes converged to the optimal size/form/load and basically look the same.

Only in software, it’s fine if a program runs at 1% or even 0.01% of the possible performance. Everybody just seems to be ok with it. People are often even proud about how much inefficient it is, as in “why should we worry, computers are fast enough”...

Autotrash is a command line to automatically purge old trashed files and it never allows your trash folder to grow too big in Linux.

Docker image for rclone based on alpine linux image, just over 10MB in size.

I've not tested it, yet.

borgmatic is a simple Python wrapper script for the Borg backup software that initiates a backup, prunes any old backups according to a retention policy, and validates backups for consistency.

The script supports specifying your settings in a declarative configuration file rather than having to put them all on the command-line, and handles common errors.

A developer's guide about how to share code between Android and iOS with Kotlin Multiplatform.

Xonsh is a Python-powered, cross-platform, Unix-gazing shell language and command prompt.

Xonsh is meant for the daily use of experts and novices alike.

Xonsh is significantly different from most other shells or shell tools.

Prompt-toolkit: advanced readline library, line-editing.

Xonsh integrates with Jupyter, an in-browser REPL, enabling the use of xonsh in jupyter notebooks.

Xonsh is a cross-platform, Python-powered, Unix shell language and command prompt designed for the use of experts and novices alike.

The Xonsh language is a Python 3.4+ superset and it features additional shell primitives that make it familiar to working from IPython and Bash.

Xonsh is easily scriptable and it allows you to mix both command prompt and python syntax coupled with a rich standard library, man-page completion, typed variables, and syntax highlighting, among other features.

Xonsh is significantly different from other shell tools as can be seen in comparison to other command prompts like Bash, zsh, fish, IPython, and plumbum.

Xonsh has certain requirements to run including Python v3.4+, PLY, and prompt-toolkit.

I don't know which shell tools and command prompt you enjoy using the most but Xonsh seems to have won the hearts of many users for reasons experts celebrate over.

Rwtxt is an open-source website where you can store any text online for easy sharing and quick recall.

Rwtxt builds off cowyo, a similar app I made previously.

In improving with rwtxt I aimed to avoid second-system syndrome: I got rid of features I never used in cowyo, while integrating a useful new feature not available previously: you can create domains.

You can share rwtxt links to read them on another computer.

Rwtxt is organized in domains - places where you can privately or publicly store your text.

Only people with the domain password can edit in your domain - making rwtxt useful as a password-protected wiki.

You can easily install and run rwtxt on your own computer.

Lazygal is another static Web gallery generator. It is command line based, uses a reusable engine and is lazy, meaning that it regenerates only parts that have to be regenerated. There is support for many interesting features like subgalleries, EXIF information, theming, and custom folder meta data. Included themes are pure XHTML and CSS.