Self Documenting, Interactive Make

Makefiles are a venerable, reliable, and widely used technology, but wouldn’t it be great if a Makefile could generate help about all of its targets? This post describes a way to do not only that, but also to create an interactive interface into your Makefile, using just fzf, ripgrep, and jq.

April 22, 2022 · 31 min · Matthew Planchard