Discourse to Markdown: Serve Your Forum to AI Agents
A Discourse plugin that serves topics, categories, tags, and list pages as Markdown via Accept header or .md URL suffix — content negotiation for LLMs.
Ben Word
Ben Word is a product engineer and the creator of roots.io
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The Free Data Sitting in Common Crawl
Backlink tools, domain authority scores, historical web archives. All sold as subscriptions, all derivable from Common Crawl's free quarterly release.
Serving Markdown to AI Agents via Accept Headers
Serving Markdown to LLMs via the Accept header — a 10× reduction in tokens, on the same URL a human hits.
How to Make Claude Code Automatically Format and Lint Files
Set up Claude Code hooks so your formatter and linter run on every file it touches.
quien: A Better whois and Domain Intelligence Toolkit
An interactive CLI for domain and IP intelligence — WHOIS, DNS, mail, SSL/TLS, HTTP headers, SEO analysis, and tech stack detection in one tabbed TUI.
SomaFM Player: A Native macOS Menu Bar App for SomaFM
A lightweight, native macOS menu bar app for streaming SomaFM's 30+ underground and alternative radio stations.
gh-actions: Keep Agents from Writing Outdated GitHub Actions Workflows
An agent skill that teaches AI coding agents GitHub Actions best practices — current action versions, security, caching, and common patterns.
Ghostty’s Quake-like Console
Ghostty's quick terminal is a Quake-style drop-down console that slides in from the top of the screen on demand.
How Roots Got the @roots Name on GitHub
In 2013, two open source projects wanted the @roots GitHub username. One team tried to pressure the owner into giving it up. We just asked nicely.
WP Packages: A Faster Composer Repository for WordPress
We built WP Packages, an independent Composer repository for WordPress plugins and themes with 17x faster dependency resolution than WPackagist.