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Five releases landed while I was writing the last two posts. The one that matters: PixelLab can now edit an existing asset directly, no ComfyUI instance required. Two new generators and a gallery shortcut came along with it.

The Pixelkiln project page said one provider, no characters. Forty-eight releases later, in about three weeks, both claims are wrong, and here’s what actually shipped.

Pixelkiln ships a second set of instructions now, not for you, for whatever’s driving the CLI on your behalf. Here’s what it won’t let an agent do, and where else it lives.

A single 65-badge icon set turned into 350 disconnected objects with no record of what shipped from where. Here’s the lockfile we built to fix that, and the three bugs we found the day we actually put it to the test.

The regex-based structural diff extractors landed and worked – then hit a ceiling regex was never going to clear. Here’s how coco’s diff pipeline actually moved onto tree-sitter: sharper structural context for commit messages, a layered regex fallback, lazy-loaded grammars – plus the bonus the same parser bought us, syntax-highlighted diffs in the Workstation.

git-scenarios came together fast because the project it serves, Coco’s TUI git workstation, had very clear testing needs. A couple of weeks after the v0.1.0 extraction it’s now stable at v1.0.0: 32 scenarios, 60+ atoms, five framework adapters, 527 tests across three operating systems. The v1 work wasn’t about features, it was about trust: typed error classes, precondition guards, property-tested determinism, cross-platform CI, and shedding the last of its coco branding.

I have written the same 80 lines of git test setup more times than I want to count. @gfargo/git-scenarios v0.5.0 extracts the helper layer that grew up inside Coco: a registry of named scenarios (mid-merge-conflict, submodule-with-history, mid-bisect, and 8 more), a composable atom API for building your own, and a tool-agnostic CLI that drops any tool into a real repo in a known state.

localpress is a CLI tool that processes your WordPress media library locally – compression, WebP/AVIF conversion, AI background removal, and round-trip desktop editing – with no cloud SaaS, no recurring credits, and no plugin required on the WordPress side.

Doorman 2.0 ships Cloudflare WAF support alongside Vercel Firewall, a new .doorman.json config format, and 1,100+ tests backing a production-ready multi-provider firewall CLI.

A look at everything that’s landed in ink-enhanced-select-input on the road to 1.0: a headless hook for custom renderers, multi-select mode, inline search, item groups, scroll indicators, Escape/cancel support, and 133 tests – including a real bug caught by writing edge-case tests for backspace handling in searchable mode.

A bash one-liner that lists your locally downloaded Ollama models, plus the equivalent in Python, Node.js, Go, and Rust. The command I kept rewriting until I just dropped it into a shell alias.

You know those moments during vacation when you should be relaxing, but the creative coding brain just won’t shut off? That was me last week, sitting in an Airbnb with my laptop, a decent WiFi connection, and way too much coffee. The goal? Create my own version of the iconic Matrix digital rain effect – […]

Explore the joys of building terminal-based card games with a dive into my journey of recreating the classic Memory/Concentration card game using the ink-playing-cards library.

What I actually put in .npmignore (after the time I shipped a 600MB package by accident), why the package.json files field is usually the safer default, and the npm pack –dry-run check that saves you from publishing things you shouldn’t.

Upgrade your ink-select-input for seamless vertical and horizontal layouts enabling more intuitive and space-efficient interfaces in your Ink CLI apps

PixelLab’s Object Creator sat on the project’s own roadmap since the character generator shipped. Two releases now cover it: a new objectPro generator for skeleton-free props and creatures, and gallery buttons that add a new pose or animation without touching the manifest by hand.