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johnlindquist
mdflow
TypeScript2025–2026
johnlindquist / mdflow

mdflow

Multi-backend CLI for executable markdown prompts. Run .md files against Claude, Codex, Gemini, or Copilot.

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What it is

Multi-backend CLI for executable markdown prompts. Run .md files against Claude, Codex, Gemini, or Copilot.

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Where it is used

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What people are saying

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This week on Hacker News

Nov 7–Nov 14 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/14/2026, 1:49:46 PM UTC.

No direct repository links were found in the indexed HN discussions over the past seven days. Older discussions are available below.

Mentions over time

HN mentions by day3 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2025-12-11 23:23:14 UTC to 2026-01-09 09:06:03 UTC.

012025-12-11 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-12-12 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 1 submissions, 0 commentsDec 112025-12-12 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-12-13 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2025-12-13 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-12-14 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2025-12-14 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-12-15 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2025-12-15 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-12-16 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2025-12-16 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-12-17 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2025-12-17 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-12-18 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2025-12-18 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-12-19 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2025-12-19 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-12-20 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2025-12-20 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-12-21 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2025-12-21 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-12-22 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2025-12-22 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-12-23 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2025-12-23 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-12-24 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2025-12-24 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-12-25 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2025-12-25 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-12-26 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 commentsDec 252025-12-26 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-12-27 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2025-12-27 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-12-28 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2025-12-28 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-12-29 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2025-12-29 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-12-30 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2025-12-30 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-12-31 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2025-12-31 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-01-02 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-01-02 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-01-03 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-01-03 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-01-04 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-01-04 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-01-05 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-01-05 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-01-06 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-01-06 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-01-07 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-01-07 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-01-08 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-01-08 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-01-09 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-01-09 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-01-10 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 commentsJan 9

Counts come from the repository’s dated source evidence. Index cutoff: 2026-11-02 08:16:59 UTC.

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PeriodStart (UTC)End (exclusive, UTC)MentionsSubmissionsComments
Dec 112025-12-11 00:00:00 UTC2025-12-12 00:00:00 UTC110
Dec 122025-12-12 00:00:00 UTC2025-12-13 00:00:00 UTC000
Dec 132025-12-13 00:00:00 UTC2025-12-14 00:00:00 UTC000
Dec 142025-12-14 00:00:00 UTC2025-12-15 00:00:00 UTC101
Dec 152025-12-15 00:00:00 UTC2025-12-16 00:00:00 UTC000
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Dec 202025-12-20 00:00:00 UTC2025-12-21 00:00:00 UTC000
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Dec 312025-12-31 00:00:00 UTC2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Jan 12026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2026-01-02 00:00:00 UTC000
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Jan 82026-01-08 00:00:00 UTC2026-01-09 00:00:00 UTC000
Jan 92026-01-09 00:00:00 UTC2026-01-10 00:00:00 UTC101

What Hacker News says

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zby·Dec 14, 2025
This week I vibe coded an golem-forge (https://github.com/zby/golem-forge) - exploration of prompting as programming. Since then I found https://github.com/badlogic/pi-mono and https://github.com/johnlindquist/mdflow and I think I'll rather use these existing tools to explore my idea. But I think it might be still interesting project because it is entirely vibe-coded - I don't even know Typescript (I know some Javascript from before React - but none of the new stuff). I did not look into the Typescript code at all - only at what the LLM presented to me when editing it and the docs. At some point I discovered that when I tried to have a core logic and two UI packages the LLM put only types in the core package - so I had drive a hard refactoring - but it worked. I haven't yet tried this very extensively - but another profound change in prog
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ramming that this showed me is that it is now very easy to borrow parts of Open Source libraries. It used to be that you could only base your work on a library - borrowing parts of projects that were not designed to be shared (used as libraries) was prohibitive - but with llms it is entirely possible to say: "now please borrow the UI ideas from project X" and it does that. Maybe you need to add some planning. The project is about 27kloc now.
In Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (December 2025)

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