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"content": "<p>me: manually editing YAML front matter sucks</p><p>also me: *spends a day writing a CLI tool for common tasks*</p><p>(Not released yet, I have a few small features I'd like to implement first.)</p><p>Edit: It's now available for testing via Git:</p><p><a href=\"https://codeberg.org/scy/felloff\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" translate=\"no\"><span class=\"invisible\">https://</span><span class=\"\">codeberg.org/scy/felloff</span><span class=\"invisible\"></span></a></p><p><a href=\"https://chaos.social/tags/YAML\" class=\"mention hashtag\" rel=\"tag\">#<span>YAML</span></a> <a href=\"https://chaos.social/tags/FrontMatter\" class=\"mention hashtag\" rel=\"tag\">#<span>FrontMatter</span></a> <a href=\"https://chaos.social/tags/Python\" class=\"mention hashtag\" rel=\"tag\">#<span>Python</span></a> <a href=\"https://chaos.social/tags/CLI\" class=\"mention hashtag\" rel=\"tag\">#<span>CLI</span></a> <a href=\"https://chaos.social/tags/SSG\" class=\"mention hashtag\" rel=\"tag\">#<span>SSG</span></a></p>",
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