scripting

An article advocating for the Janet programming language, highlighting its simplicity, ease of distribution, powerful parsing with PEGs, and excellent subprocess DSL, making it ideal for side projects and command-line tools.

The author describes creating a shell script to automate splitting Konsole terminal views and running tools like gitu directly from the Helix editor, improving workflow automation.

A guide on designing CLIs specifically for AI agents, emphasizing predictability, scriptability, and safe defaults.

Tips for automating Prolog project releases using a Prolog script to increment versions, commit, tag, and register new pack versions with SWI-Prolog's pack system.

The article explains why F# is a great choice for scripting and automation tasks, highlighting its helpful type system and natural pipeline operator that make code predictable and reliable.

Simon Willison demonstrates how to use the llm CLI tool in script shebang lines to execute LLM prompts and tool calls directly from executable files.