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The second prototype is done, but buggy.

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The first prototype is done.

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There is a very cool and useful tool out there called Ultimate Plumber. You call it with some-command | up, and then it opens a simple TUI where you write a pipeline at the top of the screen and see results of some-command piped through that pipeline beneath it.

It is such a wonderful tool for working with pipes, but there is one problem I have: it doesn’t use the Zsh line editor.

I recently (re)discovered the Oil shell. The last time I saw it, it was trying to write a language to subsume Bash, Awk, and Make.

However, I came back to it doing nearly accomplishing two smaller goals:

• Writing a fast, statically-parsed shell (osh) as close to Bash-compatible as possible.
• Developing a stricter subset of Bash from which to build a new language (oil).

And I really like it.

tl;dr: Always use the flags -D and -E (and -F if available). Add a colon to indicate an argument is required (similar to getopt)

After a busy weekend of visiting siblings, car troubles (snow’s no joke) and getting back to school, I had a chance to sit down to work on my #100DaysOfCode project.

I saw the Geometry zsh theme hit 2.0! It looks like a more modular Pure, which is fantastic for me!

With that, I figured it was as good of a time as ever to rename and rebrand my prompt segment to be more prompt-agnostic. I now have instructions for enabling it with Geometry, P10k, and Bullet Train.

The project is now moved to zsh-prompt-dir-glob

Check out Using zparseopts

Wrote more of the zparseopts post, I think I have everything explained. Waiting until I look over it more tomorrow, see if I worded anything poorly.

Wrote most of a zparseopts post, I’ll be putting it up here soon.

I re-wrote the cache-clearing function, adding options with zparseopts. I really think I need to write a post about it…

Tell you what, that will be tomorrow’s project. Just a post about zparseopts. It’s such a good tool, and people need to know about it!