I made a thing! (I feel like Tom Hanks dancing around the fire on his island)

They're like most tools, born out of a need. I was sick of adding the braces and parentheses for links in MDX, and I couldn't immediately find a solution for MDX files that seemed to work. So boom here it is. It uses Cmd+Shift+V as a special key binding to paste the formatted MD link, which I've mapped to a mouse button, so it speeds up my post writing.

Then, I wanted to be able to monitor my Netlify deployment from my IDE and the extension I tried didn't work so I made a new one. Like I said before, I work on dev and then merge to main, so I'm not hammering my build minutes in Netlify (have I mentioned I'm cheap...I mean...frugal). There was a lot of back and forth getting them working and tested. All the code is also open source on my repo (See Gimli in the footer). This include git workflows for linting and publishing (of course you could modify these and test and do all kinds of things). There are also simple npm scripts for bumping versions (since publishing is on tag trigger by defaults).

Of course, I immediately was like..."Hey, Claude, make me a template project to set the boiler plate for all new VS Code Extension projects", but I didn't properly babysit it (I kinda told it to shoot from the hip...first of many mistakes) and it got way off into the weeds. So that directory, ist tot ☠️. I may revisit it later, but for now, I just have the two extensions, and a dream, and I'm out of requests for a few hours 🤣.

I mean yeah, I'm the only one who's downloaded it, and I can't even verify my DNS because my account is too new, but what the heck, hopefully someone can find these useful (but whatevs, I use 'em 😆). Please feel free to rate/review/PR/etc. Next, maybe some Chrome extensions...then the WORLD! 🌎