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Today we're launching an exciting new project: Highlights
Highlights is a syntax highlighter that outputs HTML. It improves on both speed and correctness compared to the existing industry standard libraries.
It's an optional drop-in replacement in Diffs, and it's ready to use today. In fact, it's already powering diffshub․com!
Check it out at diffs.com/highlights
OR `pnpm install @pierre/highlights`
We wrote up a blog post about all the hard work and hard tech that went into making Highlights.
- Highlights uses actual language ASTs to highlight rather than regex
- It is often hundreds of times faster than Shiki in language-to-language comparisons while also using much less memory
- It supports over 70 languages
- It's a drop-in replacement for Shiki when your environment supports wasm and simd
pierre.computer/writing/on-h…
ALT 298x on TypeScript, 220x on HTML, 244x on CSS, 157x on JSONC. 50MiB memory usage for Highlights vs 155MiB memory usage for Shiki JS and 349 MiB memory usage for Shiki Wasm
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"Every problem is a deep problem if you just start caring about it… a lot."
@fat, CEO of @pierrecomputer, on reinventing the wheel and the capacity for work.
Loads pretty quickly in diffshub diffshub.com/pingdotgg/t3cod…
Every @getskydive agent is backed by a private git repo hosted with Code Storage.
We’re excited to work with @anything on bringing cloud agent personas to the workforce.
(and also the agents are v cute)
Read more about how they use Code Storage at code.storage/changelog/anyth…
Pierre retweeted
Agents generate code faster than any repo host was built for. Code Storage is Git infrastructure made for machine-scale writes.
by @fat @pierrecomputer
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I've been redrawing the icons we use at @pierrecomputer. Along the way, I've been whipping up plugins to help me manage them—like this Layer Swap tool for "composite icons." Allows me to swap every instance of each layer with ease. Much faster, much easier.
Did you know that you can use the file icon set from trees.software in your editor? @mdo put together a visually cohesive and theme-able set for you. Single color or duotone.
github.com/pierrecomputer/vs…
ALT trees.software icon example in code editor.
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if you're at Git Merge, go find the @pierrecomputer folks and talk all things code storage!
pierre is excited to sponsor the git-merge.com conference in lisbon next week. a bunch of us will be there! come thru and say hi