n (I know there are better build tools out there and it's overkill, but <code>make</code> is universal)</li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/git"><code>git</code></a> for version control (a spicy take, I know)</li>
</ul>

<p>The whole idea behind this is rather than having a bunch of stuff in your readme describing what commands you need to run to do X, you have those commands in your makefile -- rather than just being human-readable, they are machine-readable.</p>

<h1 id="how-to-use-this">How to use this: