{"id":5570,"date":"2025-05-13T15:57:36","date_gmt":"2025-05-13T15:57:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dalelane.co.uk\/blog\/?p=5570"},"modified":"2025-05-13T15:57:36","modified_gmt":"2025-05-13T15:57:36","slug":"npx-dalelane","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dalelane.co.uk\/blog\/?p=5570","title":{"rendered":"npx dalelane"},"content":{"rendered":"

If you\u2019re a Node.js person, try running: npx dalelane<\/code><\/strong> <\/p>\n

I recently read Ashley Willis\u2019 blog post<\/a> about her \u201cterminal business card<\/a>\u201d – a lovely project she shared that prints out a virtual CLI business card if you run npx ashleywillis<\/code>. <\/p>\n

Check out her blog post<\/a> for the history of where this all started, and an explanation of how it works. <\/p>\n

I love this!<\/p>\n

npx dalelane<\/pre>\n
\"screenshot<\/p>\n
Blast from the past<\/h3>\n
It reminds me (and I\u2019m showing my age here<\/em>) of the finger<\/code> UNIX command we had in my University days. <\/p>\n
Other than IRC, finger<\/code> was our social media: we maintained .plan<\/code> and .project<\/code> files in our profile directory, and anyone else at Uni could run finger <username><\/code> to see info about you and what you\u2019re up to. <\/p>\n
We created all sorts of endlessly creative ASCII-art plan files, and came up with all sorts of unnecessarily elaborate ways to automate updates to those files.<\/p>\n
I haven\u2019t thought about that for years, but Ashley\u2019s project reminded me of it so strongly that I had to give it a try. <\/p>\n
npx dalelane<\/pre>\n
\"screenshot<\/p>\n
A dynamic business card needs live data<\/h3>\n
Her blog post explains how to get it working. I mostly just shamelessly copied it. But where her project is elegant and concise, I naturally crammed in noise. \ud83d\ude42 <\/p>\n
I wanted live data, so I updated my \u201cbusiness card\u201d to include what I\u2019m currently reading (from my Goodreads profile<\/a>), the most recent video game I\u2019ve played (from my Backloggd profile<\/a>), the most recent song I\u2019ve listened to (from my Last.fm profile<\/a>) and my most recent post from Bluesky<\/a>. <\/p>\n
(It is a little bit hacky and scrape-y, but realistically it\u2019ll be run so infrequently I don\u2019t feel like it\u2019ll cause any harm!<\/em>)<\/p>\n
Try it for yourself!<\/h3>\n
You can see my fork of the project at
\ngithub.com\/dalelane\/dalelane.dev-card<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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