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Hi, my name is Sufian. Software engineer, pianist, tinkerer.

Web: https://abstract.properties
早安台北!
A little over 14 years ago, we brought a mangy, stray dog into our lives—and yesterday we had to say goodbye.

Bijou was such a sweet girl and we're going to miss her.
Hmm, I realize that gif didn't really show off the "interactive" portion. That could've been some sort of templated string, this is what I mean by live & interactive:
I'm building a "live" development environment and can't tell if being able to "physically look under the hood" of a widget is a good idea or a hair-brained one
I think are a whole bunch of "missing" simple & small tools that could improve the quality of life for terminal users.

So I made a tiny one: rederr - it colors standard error red.

Check it out: https://abstract.properties/work/rederr.html

It's a small C program that works on Linux, MacOS, Windows, and probably more (via Cosmopolitan libc)
abstract.properties | rederr

rederr makes stderr red

I keep thinking about this page from the CIA's "Simple Sabotage Field Manual": https://www.cia.gov/static/5c875f3ec660e092cf893f60b4a288df/SimpleSabotage.pdf
Just gonna leave this here.
Oh dear, oh my. I recognize each of these a bit too well.
Let’s goooooo