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by gosub100 658 days ago
My theory for this, at least in this case when the featured article is about a software program, aka a tool, then it really becomes a discussion about the tools that serve the purpose of that in TFA.

Here's an analogy from the physical realm: "presenting shovel, a customizable tool for removing dirt".

- doesn't work well for rocky terrain, but I'm working on DigBar, which can outperform Shovel in many high performance workloads.

- it's a lot slower than Hoe, if you're only going down 4" of topsoil

- I wrote a custom frontend for Shovel call Flatend, it carries more volume for loose loads

- theres a paid product called posthole that is worth buying if you build fences, uses shovel under GPLv3