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Show HN: Sherp, a CLI for building presentations from Markdown/MDX

https://github.com/skeptrunedev/sherp
1•skeptrune•11h ago
I announced Sherp on X with a video covering my reasons for creating it here - https://x.com/skeptrune/status/1994678515825086556?s=20.

If you just want to read the slides, those are available too at https://sherp.skeptrune.com/.

I care about slide decks because they are an effective way to communicate ideas and often required for many public speaking formats like conferences or fundraising.

Many presentations induce death by PowerPoint[1] and I think writing them in plain markdown is an easy way to curtail that effect. I struggled with that a lot while building presentation decks when I first started raising capital with my startup and have been passionate about the problem ever since.

It is usually good to have a role model when pursuing excellence at something and mine for slide decks is a YouTube creator named Hambini[2]. He is a master of the format and I designed Sherp to be capable of making presentations that he would want to use.

You may be wondering why I didn't just use Slidev or Marp. If so, I will say to you that they are great tools, but I find Slidev to be far too complex because it requires managing your own package.json and Marp to be bloated with regards to its CLI and UX. Marp's directives for formatting and CSS selectors are particularly weird and hard to use.

Sherp is simple! One MDX file, one CSS file, one JS file, and you're off to the races. There are only 5 commands and I will not be adding more. I also think the default themes are nice and cover a good range of use-cases.

[1] https://www.slideshare.net/slideshow/death-by-powerpoint/855...

[2] https://www.youtube.com/hambini

Show HN: Preflight – Replace shell validation scripts in Dockerfiles

https://github.com/vertti/preflight
1•vertti•8m ago•0 comments

Speech and Language Processing (3rd ed. draft)

https://web.stanford.edu/~jurafsky/slp3/
1•atomicnature•10m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Crier – Push notifications via TCP or MQTT (no public IP needed)

https://github.com/skorotkiewicz/crier
1•modinfo•11m ago•0 comments

Proposed Link Between Quantum-Corrected Geodesics and Dark-Matter-Like Phenomena

https://zenodo.org/records/17848182
1•Jascon71•14m ago•0 comments

The Path to Mojo 1.0

https://www.modular.com/blog/the-path-to-mojo-1-0
3•chenzhekl•17m ago•0 comments

A Clever Approach to AI Drawing I Accidentally Discovered – Bear. Best

https://bear.best/en/blog/a-clever-approach-to-ai-drawing/
1•BearBest•19m ago•0 comments

BusyBox-Only Linux

https://github.com/chirsz-ever/busybox-linux
1•chirsz•19m ago•0 comments

Versioning Events Without Breaking Everything

https://docs.eventsourcingdb.io/blog/2025/12/08/versioning-events-without-breaking-everything/
1•goloroden•21m ago•0 comments

IBM nears $11B deal to acquire Confluent

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/ibm-nears-roughly-11-billion-031139352.html
3•theanonymousone•23m ago•0 comments

Show HN: CatalystAlert – Free biotech catalyst calendar (985 companies tracked)

https://catalystalert.io
6•nykodev•23m ago•5 comments

Show HN: Brick Starter – .NET SaaS starter kit to ship production apps faster

https://www.brickstarter.net
1•plakhlani2•26m ago•1 comments

Russian authorities have imposed restrictions on FaceTime

https://apnews.com/article/russia-internet-crackdown-facetime-restrictions-06301be480510b18ae0203...
2•chmaynard•27m ago•0 comments

Kinesis Advantage2

https://danishpraka.sh/posts/kinesis-advantage2/
1•prakashdanish•36m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Peargent – A Simple Python Framework for Building AI Agents

https://github.com/Quanta-Naut/peargent
1•Quanta-Naut•39m ago•1 comments

Indian boy, aged 3, becomes youngest rated chess player in history

https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6869534/2025/12/07/youngest-chess-player-age-india/
2•NewCzech•39m ago•1 comments

Finnix

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finnix
3•fuzztester•40m ago•1 comments

Fifty Years of Retracted Medical Publications from 1975 to 2024

https://jkms.org/DOIx.php?id=10.3346/jkms.2025.40.e300
1•XzetaU8•41m ago•0 comments

Apple Taps Meta Lawyer as General Counsel in Latest Shake-Up

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-12-04/apple-taps-top-meta-lawyer-as-general-counsel-...
1•mgh2•51m ago•1 comments

Estimate Trend at a Point in a Noisy Time Series

https://github.com/finite-sample/incline
1•neehao•52m ago•0 comments

Publishing Malicious VS Code Extensions: Bypassing VS Code Marketplace Analysis

https://mazinahmed.net/blog/publishing-malicious-vscode-extensions/
1•mazen160•58m ago•0 comments

IBM to Acquire Confluent for $11B

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-12-08/ibm-close-to-buying-confluent-in-11-billion-de...
3•marc__1•1h ago•2 comments

Dewy: Continuous deployments for VPS and bare metal, no K8s required

https://github.com/linyows/dewy
1•linyows•1h ago•1 comments

EVs 80% Worse Consumer Reports Lied – ICE Cars Are Failing at Record Levels

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f2kYoahAw5U
1•xbmcuser•1h ago•0 comments

2FAS Pass: Local-First Password Manager

https://2fas.com/pass/
1•thunderbong•1h ago•0 comments

Kazakhstan, France collaborate to boost aviation training capacity

https://qazinform.com/news/kazakhstan-france-collaborate-to-boost-aviation-training-capacity-4d2486
1•Bolat14•1h ago•0 comments

Earth needs energy. Atlanta's Super Soaker creator may have a solution

https://www.seattletimes.com/business/earth-needs-energy-atlantas-super-soaker-creator-may-have-a...
1•Gaishan•1h ago•0 comments

FiwixOS 3.5 Released

https://www.fiwix.org/news/20251115.html
1•coolcoder613•1h ago•0 comments

GeneralGiist – A Global Forum Built for Real, Unfiltered Conversations

1•cimaa•1h ago•1 comments

How to Use Git Worktree for Claude Code Development

https://medium.com/@naveensky/how-to-use-git-worktree-for-claude-code-development-43dfbd554b21
1•naveensky•1h ago•0 comments

Funerary figurines found in royal tomb identifies Pharoah

https://www.sciencealert.com/trove-of-225-exceptional-egyptian-figurines-solves-long-standing-mys...
1•Gaishan•1h ago•0 comments