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• Show HN: a Rust Based CLI tool 'imgcatr' for displaying images
  12 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 16 Apr 2024

  If you're on MacOS an imgcat tool pairs well with an imgpbcopy tool like this:

  https://github.com/williamcotton/dotfiles/blob/master/bin/im...

  Then creating a shell function like:

    imgc() {

• Course using F#: Write your own tiny programming system(s)
  6 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 2 Nov 2023

  I started down this path sometime last year with Crafting Interpreters and I’ve gotten obsessed with this entire world since. I wrote a little language [0] using Python Lex Yacc a couple of months ago at work because I wanted an awk-like way to quickly make graphs/charts from the CLI. Then I wrote a parser-as-a-type in TypeScript [1] for the same grammar.

  My plan was to take a look at OCaml for future tinkerings with parsers, but man, F# is already looking very familiar between TypeScript and Lex/Yacc-like things.

  Thanks for this post, I think I might have a new favorite language in the oven!

  [0] https://github.com/williamcotton/dotfiles/blob/master/bin/pl...

  [1] https://github.com/williamcotton/dotfiles/blob/master/bin/pl...