...that's why i wrote sofancy, a fun unicode font tool written in javascript.

usage

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usage: sofancy [-f (font) | -t | -r] string

flags:
-f|--font (font) : output in a single font
-t|--titles      : display titles in output
-r|--random      : pick a random font (clobbers -f)

examples:
sofancy -f wide aesthetics
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sofancy -t some string | fzf | xsel -i
git commit -m "$(sofancy -tr  message | sed 's/^.*  /docs: /')"

install

use npm to globally install: npm i -g sofancy

demo

i made a fun web based version as well https://sofancy.0w.nz
for the easy copy pasta ^c^v

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as a curious code monkey, i find myself poking around a lot of different types of databases. and as a terminal junkie, i've used a bunch of different commandline tools to connect and interact with them.

in this post i wanna hightlight the dbcli project. it's a suite of db clients each written in python with a similar interface. clients support autocompletion, syntax highlighting, history, the project is opensource, and cross-platform.

i find myself perpetually using them for postgres, mysql, and sqlite but these have clients for ms-sql, redis, and more....

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