Hacked this [0] together for fun this afternoon, mainly because I wanted to play around with the yargs [1] library to build a simple command line tool.<p>It basically just provides an interface to list and read Paul Graham's essays [2] in the terminal as markdown. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯<p>To list all the essays (assuming you have npm/npx installed): `npx pg-essays list`<p>To read a specific essay (e.g. "Beating the Averages"): `npx pg-essays read avg`<p>To read a random popular essay: `npx pg-essays read random`<p>That's about it!<p>[0] <a href="https://github.com/reichert621/pg-cli">https://github.com/reichert621/pg-cli</a><p>[1] <a href="https://github.com/yargs/yargs">https://github.com/yargs/yargs</a><p>[2] <a href="http://www.paulgraham.com/articles.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://www.paulgraham.com/articles.html</a>