Between 1 September and 25 October 2026, my public repositories at github.com/grahambrooks cut 92 releases across 27 repositories. Most of those numbers are plumbing. This post separates the plumbing …
A patch shows you what changed. It doesn’t show you the file the change landed in. increment is my attempt at showing both, without leaving the terminal. increment is a terminal diff viewer. The …
Convert a Mermaid diagram to PDF with an SVG-only toolchain and you can get boxes and arrows with no words in them, and no error telling you the words are gone. mmd exists because of that failure. mmd …
If your Elasticsearch data already has Kibana dashboards, you shouldn’t need Kibana to look at them. That’s the bet behind teleplot, and v2026.10.0 is the first release you can install. Teleplot is a …
Ask for a diagram of the circuit breaker pattern and you get a picture. Ask whether the picture says what you meant, and nobody checks. infographic is my attempt at the checking half. infographic is a …
A code graph is only as useful as the things it leaves out. This release is mostly about that, plus a way to get the graph’s numbers out of the tool. symgraph is a Rust command-line tool and MCP …
puml 2026.10.2 is tagged. The change that matters is that puml can now hand a diagram to another program as plain data instead of only as SVG. puml is a Rust command-line reimplementation of PlantUML. …
forge v2026.10.2 is mostly one change: the parser and layout code can now be used as a library, without the command line attached. Everything else in the release is dependency upkeep. forge is a …
A diagram that has been laid out is just data: boxes with sizes, lines with routes, colours that mean something. Nothing about that requires the code that drew it to be the code that displays it. …
Agents are very good at writing files. So when a tool’s input is a file, an MCP server in front of it starts out with a problem: the agent can already do the job without it. The server has to earn its …