Cooklang (Alexey)
@cooklang.bsky.social
Markup Language for Recipes and Tools http://cooklang.org/
CookBot can now change a recipe — or a whole week's plan — until it hits a number. "Get my week to 150g protein a day." It measures, proposes edits, you approve them. Want a few alpha testers. DM me and I'll switch it on free for a month. github.com/cook-md/edit...
Cook Editor can now import recipes: paste a URL or text, drop in photos of a cookbook page, or clip straight from a built-in browser. Everything comes out as plain-text Cooklang — a file you own and can edit. Free & open source: github.com/cook-md/edit...
My talk about automating grocery shopping at @oggcamp.org youtu.be/3uYmduWuhNk?...
Cooklang: markup language for recipes - Alex Dubowski @ OggCamp 2026
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How to overengineer ingredient sorting in a recipe app 🧵
Somehow I wasn’t aware about that interesting development. Let’s talk about 402 HTTP response code.
In iOS, we're pretty limited when it comes to timers. I've checked many apps (including the Cooklang app) and the experience isn't convincing: the app schedules a local notification, and if you're in silent mode or Do Not Disturb, you never hear it. That's why I usually never set timers in the app
Share a recipe with a friend via QR code in iOS app.
Another highly requested iOS feature is a mise en place screen, which highlights all ingredient prep upfront—so you don’t discover halfway through cooking that the onions were supposed to be chopped.
Before adding AI to the Cooklang mobile apps, I built a small proof-of-concept terminal app (TUI) for managing recipes. I didn’t plan to release it-TUIs are niche-but I started using it myself and found it genuinely useful. So… here it is.
If you have hand-written recipes or pictures from cooking books that you want to Cooklang, now you can do that at cook.md/cookifies/new.
iOS app just got full metadata support and recipe scaling
Just sent out to beta-testers new feature of iOS app: alternative to iCloud file sync. 1 - via CookCloud for syncing from any platforms. 2 - local folder for using other sync services like Nextcloud/Syncthing
Now my blog has recipes thanks to @cooklang.bsky.social blog.cabra.su/recipes/ (not many thanks to me) Really neat markup language.
Receitas
Welcome to my blog
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The "Dishwasher Salmon Problem": Recipe sites modify recipes for SEO, creating an arms race that produces worse content (yes, dishwasher salmon is real: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dishwashe…). I built a solution: Cooklang Federation—a decentralized search for community recipes �� recipes.cooklang.o.org
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Right. Frying pan care. You’re doing it wrong. A thread 🧵
I know, I'm a bit old-school… maybe more than a bit 😅 cookcli now outputs recipes in LaTeX! Turn your Cooklang files into actual cookbooks: ⤵️
I recently opened my fridge and found three tubs of yogurt. None bought intentionally. One had expired in 2024. CookCLI now has Pantry Inventory. It exists so you don’t live like me.
🎉 Big updates at cooklang.org! ✨ Fresh new look 📚 Expanded documentation 🍳 Making recipe markup even better Check out what's new and let us know what you think!
Cooklang: recipe markup language
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1/8 Right, I've just read some chef's manifesto about cooking and I'm FURIOUS. Apparently I've been living a lie with my knife drawer that looks like a medieval torture chamber. This pompous git says I only need ONE good knife? I've got seventeen and can't cut butter with any of them.
🚀 CookCLI v0.15.1 dropped! The open-source recipe manager just got: ✨ Beautiful new UI 🩺 Recipe validation 🔄 Smart scaling 🛒 Pantry-aware shopping lists 📚 Real documentation Here's why your kitchen workflow needs this 🧵
Cooking isn’t hard. Which is why we invented delivery apps, meal kits, and frozen pizza.
Want people to contribute to your open source project? Step 1: Post the most unholy AI-generated solution imaginable. Step 2: Watch the experts crawl out of the woodwork, frothing with corrections. Congratulations. You’ve tricked them into caring.
Join us for a live coding session with @jacobbolda.com starting in 3 minutes!
WASM Bindgen In Cooklang
YouTube video by Jacob Bolda
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It's been a while since we allowed referencing other recipes as ingredients into the spec. Now implemented it in Cook CLI. You can store your recipes in DRY fashion, have shared recipes like sauces, dough, etc. Release: github.com/cooklang/coo...
Release v0.13.0 · cooklang/cookcli
0.13.0 (2025-05-27) ⚠ BREAKING CHANGES use : as scaling factor delimiter Features add base path for shopping lists so we can lookup references (a5c1a42) detect cycle references (3d9144f) highlig...
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