The universal command palette for your Mac.

Palette puts every menu item, in any app, just a few keystrokes away.

• Lives in your menu bar — invoke it anytime with a customizable shortcut.

• Find any command instantly — no more hunting through nested sub-menus.

• Never forget a keyboard shortcut again — Palette shows you the shortcut for any command.

• Stay in control — add any app to your Ignore List from Palette's settings if you'd rather it stay out of the way.

In the process of creating a new project, I had to look up for databases to access basic book information. I found various articles, but mostly incomplete or outdated. I hope this 2025 updated summary will help you!

Accents is an app that lets you use the iMac/MacBook Neo accent colors on any Mac.

I built a desktop Mars colony survival game called Underhill, in homage to Kim Stanley Robinson's Mars trilogy. Land on Mars, build solar panels and greenhouses, and try not to pass out during dust storms. Eventually your colonists split into factions: Greens who want to terraform and Reds who want to preserve Mars.
There’s Chill Mode for players that just want to build & hang, and Conflict Mode that introduces the Red v. Green factions. Reds sabotage, the terrain slowly turns green as the world gets more terraformed.

Leash wraps AI coding agents in containers and monitors their activity. You define policies in Cedar; Leash enforces them instantly.

CSV file editor application for Windows, Mac, and Linux with powerful editing tools and large file viewing. Edit CSV files for free today.

Flexoki 2.0 introduces 88 new colors that feel like watercolor pigments on paper. This is a continuation of my attempt to bring the feeling of analog color to digital emissive screens.

Flexoki is open source under the MIT license, and already available for most text editors, terminals, and many other apps. Flexoki 2.0 makes it into a more capable color system for UIs and more complex projects.

<https:stephango.com/flexoki>

📝 New blog post: Kagi Search Action for LaunchBar

<https:florian.ec/blog/launchbar-action-kagi-search/>

A free web app to take the pain out of transcribing recorded interviews.

Here's a small script "find-postings-without-comment-id.py" which checks all my [#Hugo](https://mastodon.social/tags/Hugo) [#goHugo](https://mastodon.social/tags/goHugo) blog postings if I forgot to add the comments id.

<https:github.com/andreasscherbaum/hugo-tools>

Plus some other tools.

[#Blogging](https://mastodon.social/tags/Blogging) [#Blog](https://mastodon.social/tags/Blog)

## Features
Human-readable output with color-coded and tabular format
JSON output support for easy scripting and parsing
Multiple transport protocols:
DNS over HTTPS (DoH)
DNS over TLS (DoT)
DNS over QUIC (DoQ)
DNS over TCP
DNS over UDP
DNSCrypt
Support for ndots and search configurations from resolv.conf or command-line arguments
Multiple resolver support with customizable query strategies
IPv4 and IPv6 support
Web interface available at doggo.mrkaran.dev
Shell completions for zsh and fish
Reverse DNS lookups
Flexible query options including various DNS flags (AA, AD, CD, DO, etc.)
Debug mode for troubleshooting
Response time measurement
Cross-platform support (Linux, macOS, Windows, FreeBSD, NetBSD)

[@simon](https://fedi.simonwillison.net/@simon) Copilot is funny. If you can convince it that it's about programming, it'll tell you all sorts of things...

Thanks to everyone who submitted and participated to the BEAM devroom, it was packed from start to finish and full of interesting talks!

Tonight if anyone wants to get together we will be at the Wolf Sharing Food Market from 7 PM

<https:wolf.be/>

To find us just go around looking for a bunch of people with BEAM looking faces 😄

[#erlang](https://patavium.social/tags/erlang) [#elixir](https://patavium.social/tags/elixir) [#gleam](https://patavium.social/tags/gleam) [#fosdem](https://patavium.social/tags/fosdem) [#WeBEAMTogether](https://patavium.social/tags/WeBEAMTogether)

Made a Dutch baby! SO GOOD (and easy)!! 😋

No, pair programming does not replace code reviews. That the reviewer(s) of a change is unfamiliar with the code is a *feature*, as that’s how *literally everyone* except for the author(s) will read it later.

🤯

"a fascinating way to show users the refresh rate of their screen by spinning a specially designed zoetrope-like disc graphic at speed. As it spins, the numbers representing the viewer’s refresh rate should remain visually stable unlike surrounding numbers."

<https:cohost.org/lunasorcery/post/2465593-testing-your-animati>

The [#rust](https://hachyderm.io/tags/rust) ecosystem is getting bigger with the creation [#nucleo](https://hachyderm.io/tags/nucleo) from one of the very talented [#helix](https://hachyderm.io/tags/helix) developers.
A faster fuzzy matcher replacement compared to [#fzf](https://hachyderm.io/tags/fzf) and [#skim](https://hachyderm.io/tags/skim).

<https:github.com/helix-editor/nucleo>
<https:github.com/helix-editor/helix/pull/7814>

The video for my 40m talk at [@NorthBayPython](https://social.northbaypython.org/@NorthBayPython) is now available, and I've put together an accompanying edited transcript with annotated slides and links

Catching up on the weird world of LLMs: <https://simonwillison.net/2023/Aug/3/weird-world-of-llms/>

If you haven't been completely immersed in this world for the last year, my hope is this can help catch you up!

I must emphasize: this game is very very good (via [@draknek](https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@draknek)) <https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/~csk/slide/>

6 months ago my pineapple plant started growing a flower, which turned into a fruit, which I harvested this week. It was delicious! Sweet, juicy, and full of flavour—very pleased. [#gardening](https://mastodon.decentralised.social/tags/gardening)