Some mad lads made bat, a Rust-based rewrite of cat but "with wings".
This has got to be the most bike-sheddy of bike sheds.
Separately, I was shook about a week ago, when I found out some of my friends are into fish shell, a user-friendly rethinking of the command line, modernized "for the 90s". They are unblinkingly willing to give up POSIX compliance, in return for not having to spend two minutes installing oh-my-zsh or starship or powerlevel10k or powerlevel9k like the rest of geekdom.
These same friends might also handcraft their .eslintrc configs, gleefully install Nerd Fonts for coding ligatures, and excitedly share the incredible CLAUDE.md setups they come across.
I do none of this!
My point is that people get to do what they want.
Sometimes this sucks for me, in less trivial ways than the examples above.
A couple of years ago, I performed a non-AI-assisted survey (it was such a horrible experience haha) of blog commenting systems, and went with utterances, a lightweight co...
