In this Hasty Treat, Scott and Wes talk about the hottest new tech they love!

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Show Notes

03:30 - Lucy Language

• https://lucylang.org/

A concise language for describing Finite State Machines

06:10 - MDSvex

• https://github.com/pngwn/MDsveX

Mdx for Svelte

Smartypants options transforms ASCII punctuation into fancy typographic punctuation HTML entities

https://github.com/rehypejs/awesome-rehype

09:56 - RECut

• https://getrecut.com/

12:26 - Fig

• https://fig.io/

It’s an app you install on your computer, it adds autocomplete to your terminal

Works with most popular terminals

Autocompletes git commands

NPM commands + tons more - npm install ___ works

Adds descriptions of what each command does

Mac only - again another reason why Mac is best!

Themeable

Why not use Fish/ZSH?

• This isn’t a replacement for anything, it’s just autocomplete on top
• These fish plugins are to vim, as Fig is to VS Code
• Better UI is KEY

15:56 - Warp

• https://www.warp.dev/

Rust-based termnial

Very fast

Extensions and themes

Share commands and sessions

Great for remote server dev

Share terminal state - with share links

19:33 - Raycast

• https://www.raycast.com/

App launcher

File Finder

Workflow runner

Everyone is asking why is it better than Alfred

better UI

Better outputs math

Better defaults - currency conversion

Fast as hell

Better integrations

More Flexible

21:26 - Table Plus

• https://tableplus.com/

Fantastic little DB tool

23:59 - Obsidian Update

• https://obsidian.md/

• Wes: I haven’t got into it - find myself still going back to VS Code

26:50 - Descript Update

• https://www.descript.com/

All-in-one audio and video editing, like a doc

Links

• https://chriscoyier.net/

https://hyper.is/

https://www.alfredapp.com/

https://strapi.io/

https://studio3t.com/

https://www.mindnode.com/

https://remarkable.com/

https://www.notion.so/

https://joplinapp.org/

http://www.telestream.net/screenflow/overview.htm

https://shinywhitebox.com/

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