Strokkur geyser in Iceland (© John and Tina Reid/Getty Images)

I came across a peculiar site. It’s called https://no-color.org (terminals). Xterm and ansifilter work well for programs that are unable to contextually disable colors.

ls -la | ansifilter   # Remove colors from output
xterm -cm             # Set color mode to false
export NO_COLOR=true  # For programs that follow

I used to wonder why some preferred no syntax/color highlighting. It turns out that output can/will be hidden (e.g black on black, white on white) and color contrasts/distinctions are the ultimate talk past.

nikitonsky: How about a popup for a popup for a popup?

Deer Valley at dusk, Park City, Utah (© Adventure_Photo/Getty Images)

This document describes an abstract Application Programming Interface (API) to the transport layer that enables the selection of transport

nikitonsky: Multi-line text selection. Please. No holes. Thank you

Ad-Deir, Petra, Jordan (© Punnawit Suwuttananun/Getty Images)

Apparently, this is entertaining? Struggling to be brief my scribbling mimics the mainstream and becomes unintentionally obscure. My inbox has been overflowing with ads selling agents (AGI) lately.

On VS Code’s marketing page there is/was a demo where the (pre?) AGI was asked, “What steps are needed to create a wordle clone?”

My answer: “You only need one step. To make a wordle clone just git clone another worldle clone” (no code: I was trying to be funny this time).

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