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A pragmatic approach to shell completion

Now there is a new generation of shells that allow passing structured data through a pipe. This is a major thing and well worth its own article.

One of these is Elvish, a shell written in Go that runs on Linux, BSDs, macOS, and Windows. It is also the shell that managed to make me switch again.

But let's focus on another of its features: filtering of entries during menu completion. And not just the values but the descriptions as well. You will understand later why this is important.

Elvish only has a few completions though so I am back at the same problem I had with Fish. This time however I've got some tools under my belt.

So let's change that...

Source: A pragmatic approach to shell completion.

• shell

Git Notes: git's coolest, most unloved­ feature

Git notes are almost a secret.

They’re buried by their own distressing usability.

But git notes are continually rediscovered by engineers trying to stash metadata inside git.

Source: Git Notes: git's coolest, most unloved­ feature, an article by Tyler Cipriani.

• git

Postgres Tips & Tricks

A few helpful Postgres Tips & Tricks.

• postgres

Color Formats in CSS

CSS has a whole slew of different color formats: hex codes, rgb(), hsl(), lch(), the list goes on!

Which one should we use? It might seem like an inconsequential decision, but there are some pretty important differences between them. And, honestly, I think most of us are prioritizing the wrong things. 😅

Source: Color Formats in CSS - hex, rgb, hsl, lab, an article by Joshua Comeau.

• css