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Ishmael — a distraction-free novel-writing app for Mac

Ishmael is a distraction-free novel-writing app for Mac — beautiful typography, typewriter and focus modes, chapter management, and export to Word, EPUB, HTML, and Markdown.

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Ishmael. Now with 100% more pull quotes! ishmael.textualize.io

Ishmael. Now with 100% more pull quotes! ishmael.textualize.io

Coming soon to Ishmael — the ability to customize the caret.

Introducing Ishmael. A distraction free word processor for novelists. Typographic interface, chapter management, EPUB and Shunn manuscript export. Contact me for a free copy if you would like to review Ishmael. #WritingCommunity ishmael.textualize.io

Ishmael is now live on the app store! I will be giving away some free copies on a first come first serve basis. Send me your email address if you are interested. If I've already promised you a copy, your free copy is assured. ishmael.textualize.io

A little work on selections and annotations in Ishmael. I've added rounded corners to selections (will anyone even notice)? Notes have changed from an underline to a background, mimicking a highlighter pen. Finding the "visible but not distracting" sweet spot requires a lot of experimentation.

Working on Ishmael. I tweaked the design of the writing surface controls and statistics panel. Breaking things out into smaller panels and keeping them all the same size looks so much better. Also added two more light themes. More of a dark theme guy, but I I could work with these...

Any writers in my feed? I'm building a novel writing app. Today I've been iterating on the EPUB publishing side. Ishmael (the software) can configure chapter headings with ornate dropped and raised caps. Follow me if this kind of thing interests you!

While preparing my last two presentations, I probably spent more time fiddling ("ape-coding") with the presentation software then with the slides content. So here it is: github.com/janpipek/cli... - a cross-platform presentation TUI app/lib for your slides. #python #cli #presentation #textual

GitHub - janpipek/clippt: CLI slideshows in Python and Textual

CLI slideshows in Python and Textual. Contribute to janpipek/clippt development by creating an account on GitHub.

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@willmcgugan.bsky.social github.com/ibeex/mother I started form example and just kept adding. Thx for the inspiration. Maybe give it a try 😁

GitHub - ibeex/mother: The slow agent for your terminal — an LLM that works with you, one step at a time

The slow agent for your terminal — an LLM that works with you, one step at a time - ibeex/mother

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This week @digiglean.bsky.social and I talk about using NumPy to make music, fire-and-forget async code, signals, and more. With content from: @djangoproject.com @kennethreitz.bsky.social @mkennedy.codes @willmcgugan.bsky.social @bbelderbos.bsky.social and others not on the 🦋

Episode #292: Becoming a Better Python Developer Through Learning Rust – The Real Python Podcast

How can learning Rust help make you a better Python Developer? How do techniques required by a compiled language translate to improving your Python code? Christopher Trudeau is back on the show this…

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I just released tdiff, a Textual diff viewer based on @willmcgugan.bsky.social's awesome textual-diff-view. github.com/davidbrochar...

AI coding tools have terrible UIs. @willmcgugan.bsky.social got annoyed and built something better — on sabbatical. "Toad" is a terminal-native AI frontend that actually respects developers. Live demo + honest takes on AI's real strengths and limits. Watch: youtu.be/5iqMTP9Ja5k?...

Toad: Your AI Coding Agent Deserves a Better User Interface • Will McGugan & Olimpiu Pop • GOTO 2026

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I've added both Layout capabilities and McGugan boxes (the box drawing technique created by @willmcgugan.bsky.social) to Spectre.Tui. Starting to look pretty good!

Toad-Pythonic Universal Terminal Interface for AI Agents-" Wouldn't it be great to have an interface that could work with any AI agent? #Toad is #Python 's answer to a unified front-end for the many #AI #coding agents out there" cutt.ly/ytxPsRR2 @willmcgugan.bsky.social @pythonhub.dev

A bit of polish to Toad's shell. AI prompts and the shell can be interleaved. It's a remarkably natural workflow. You can even run the Python REPL from within Toad. github.com/batrachianai... Worth a ☆ ? #Python #Toad

Published my keyboard-driven sticky notes TUI. Got tired of heavy apps for simple tasks, so this is just pure Python and Textual. #python #textual #terminal #linux github link: github.com/dengo07/text... @willmcgugan.bsky.social

Repo 👉 github.com/AstraBert/w...

GitHub - AstraBert/workflows-acp: ACP wrapper for LlamaIndex Agent Workflows

ACP wrapper for LlamaIndex Agent Workflows. Contribute to AstraBert/workflows-acp development by creating an account on GitHub.

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These past few days I've been cooking🍳 Say hello to 𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗸𝗳𝗹𝗼𝘄𝘀-𝗮𝗰𝗽, a new python package (and CLI toolkit) to build versatile generalist AI agents🚀 The stack: @llamaindex.bsky.social Agent Workflows, with their unmatched power in building powerful event-driven systems🦙

I've added a tree view to pick files in Toad. 🐸 Fuzzy searching is great when you know what you're looking for. But a tree view is more natural when you want to look through your files. Toad is a unified interface for agentic coding, and all things AI, in your terminal. github.com/batrachianai...

I've added a few settings to Toad 🐸 to customize the UI. You can tweak these settings to create an ultra minimal interface, if that is your thing! I'm going to squeeze this release in before I take an end of year break. 🎄 #Toad #AI #Python youtube.com/shorts/iL7nd...

Make a minimal UI with Toad

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Alrighty. The Toad is out of the bag. 👜🐸 Install toad to work with a variety of #AI coding agents with one beautiful terminal interface. I've been told I'm very authentic on camera. You just can't fake that kind of awkwardness. #AI #Python #Toad www.youtube.com/shorts/ZLhct...

I've spent the day writing a blog post and tweaking Toad. 🐸 It is not vaporware! I have pics and it did happen. I'm planning on making the repo public on Thursday. Little nervous TBH. I've been working on this for 6 months. But I have had good feedback. #Python #AI #Toad

Check out this podcast where I discuss CLIs, TUIs, and I may have mentioned Toad (a Terminal UI for agentic coding)! If all goes well, 🐸 will land on Thursday... www.infoq.com/podcasts/lea... #Python #Toad #AI

Building a More Appealing CLI for Agentic LLMs Based on Learnings from the Textual Framework

Will McGugan, the maker of Textual and Rich frameworks, speaks about the reasoning of developing the two two libraries and the lesson learned. Also, he shares light on Toad, his current project, which...

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Vibe coding my heart out today. I think this is pretty nifty. WDYT? www.batrachian.ai

I recorded a video about a new feature I added to Toad... Toad will detect "dangerous" shell commands in bash commands.

Odd little website. What’s this all about? www.batrachian.ai

0.4.0 of django-new is released. 🚀 Now with interactive mode! ✨ `uvx django-new` steps through prompts to create a Django application. It also shows the tree structure of what was created. Both thanks to `rich` by @willmcgugan.bsky.social. 🛠️ github.com/adamghill/dj... 📦 pypi.org/project/djan...

GitHub - adamghill/django-new: Create new Django applications with pizazz. 🚀

Create new Django applications with pizazz. 🚀. Contribute to adamghill/django-new development by creating an account on GitHub.

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did you know that Nilearn optional supports the awesome rich library (h/t @willmcgugan.bsky.social) for prettier logging? rich.readthedocs.io/en/stable/