Announcing Palette Picker – the new name for Colour Chooser – and a long-overdue new release.

Back in 2019 I put together a script for pulling the list of colours used by GitHub from their Linguist gem into a set of colour palette formats. Over time it has drifted further and further out of date – I've now fixed that.

Have you ever wanted a full list of colours used for the various programming languages on GitHub? No? Well if you ever do, I've put together a collection of various palette formats containing them all, along with a Python script which builds them.

Whilst working in various different .NET-based projects, I can find myself doing the same things over and over again. Quite often, this can be copied and pasted from one project to another or re-implemented slightly differently from one project to another. I don't think this is the best approach, so I've decided to start bringing together all these bits and pieces to form MarkEmbling.Utils.

Backups: we all know that they're vital. Right? Backups are really really important. To that end, I've written storelet, a tiny little library for easily writing simple backup scripts using Python.

Often I find myself needing a convenient way to pick colours for CSS files and various other things, pretty much every single day. Unfortunately, it has always been a bit of a hassle, with no convenient tool for doing so – certainly opening up something like Photoshop just for choosing a colour is not ideal! I know there are hundreds of these out there already, but somehow none of them really worked for me. I decided to write (another) one, with the really imaginative name of Colour Chooser.