TypeScript is a good choice for writing CLI tools for a couple of reasons including developer-friendliness, static checks, as well as the broad choice of tooling options. As with every TypeScript project, there is, however, an initial setup hurdle. This post shows how to set up a TypeScript CLI project with linting, formatting, testing, and packaging to a standalone binary.

Jekyll’s out-of-the-box support for custom Markdown engines allows us to use Pandoc and it’s ecosystem of filters to include extensions like diagrams or mathematics. In this post, we write a minimal Jekyll based blog with support for Mermaid diagrams and Mathjax via Pandoc filters.

Pair and group programming already has a lot of potential benefits. One way to improve it further is by automating hand-over workflows. Mob.sh is a great command line tool which streamlines this process.

Integrating pictures into Jekyll blog posts is simple and easy but what if we want to highlight a single image or a gallery in a modal? The Lightbox2 JavaScript library can help. Here’s how to use it in Jekyll.

Starship.rs is a nice framework for configuring shell prompts. This post shows how to define custom prompt components with Starship.rs and provides an example terminal prompt configuration using a custom prompt component.

As programmers we typically spend a lot of time interacting with some kind of shell through a terminal (emulator) application. For obvious reasons a good terminal setup improves productivity and reduces stress. Typically, installing and configuring terminal and shell is one of the first things I do when setting up a new computer. Here is how to create a terminal experience that is clean, fast, and interactive with ZSH, Oh My ZSH, and Starship.rs.

Telepresence is a pretty clever tool for local development on a remote Kubernetes or OpenShift cluster. Here are some notes from a recent evaluation.

I recently published two introductory articles on API as a Product on our company blog. (German only, sorry 😬.)