Kayla Cinnamon, Program Manager at Microsoft for Windows Terminal, Console, Command Line, and Cascadia Code joined us to talk about the release of Windows Terminal 1.0 and the new Windows command-line experience. We talk about everything that went into rethinking the command line experience on Windows, the UX and UI design behind it all, the learnings of working in open source, and what’s to come for the Windows command line experience.

🎶 Universal binaries because written in Go. A command-line interface to your favorite show. Install it with curl simply pass the right strings. These are a few of my favorite things 🎶

dijo is a habit tracker. It is curses-based, it runs in your terminal. dijo is scriptable, hook it up with external programs to track events without moving a finger. dijo is modal, much like a certain text editor.

Poodle’s features include:

• Register your web services and endpoints easily.
• Use variables in endpoints definitions.
• Painless debugging and interaction with APIs.
• Search web services and endpoints interactively.
• Edit services and endpoints easily (config is just a TOML file).
• Sync services via Gist automatically.

Turns out everyone’s favorite macOS package manager has an official cask for managing fonts. Who knew?!

I would like to show some examples of this philosophy in action – of how one can use different unix tools together to accomplish something powerful.

This post takes you step-by-step through printing a leaderboard of authors based on number of commits to a git repo, browsing memes on reddit, setting your desktop wallpaper, and getting a random movie from an IMDB list.

This makes heavy use of fzf, which is a command-line fuzzy finder. You can stage and unstage files fuzzily found by the tool and commit interactively.

You have wrapped your head around the Go syntax and practised them one by one, however you won’t feel comfortable writing applications in Go unless you build one.

In this blog post we’ll build a CLI application in Go, which we’ll call go-grab-xkcd. This application fetches comics from XKCD and provides you with various options through command-line arguments.

The name derives from the Standup meetings since its initial purpose was to cover my need for keeping my Standup notes in a convenient way.

Quickly enter notes with a flexible text interface. Note creation looks like:

stup add @|--at|-@ <when> -n|--note "<note text>" -c|--category "<category-name>"

Then you can pull them back out by date, date-range, and/or category with:

$ stup show @ <when> -c|--category "<category-name>"

Notes are all saved as plaintext (markdown) so throw the entire directory in your synced-cloud-folder solution of choice and you have instant notes sync across all your devices.

Suitcase is a command line tool that can be “programmed” to display a SwiftUI interface that can trigger commands and scripts.

Editly is a tool and framework for declarative NLE (non-linear video editing) using Node.js and ffmpeg. Editly allows you to easily and programmatically create a video from set of clips, images and titles, with smooth transitions between and music overlaid.

The video in the gif below was produced by sending Editly this JSON config.

These libraries come from the team at repl.it and you can play with them in your browser on repl.it.

A nifty tool (Ruby gem) from the folks at Instacart. Designed for:

• speed - up to 4x faster than traditional tools on a 4-core machine
• security - built-in methods to prevent sensitive data from ever leaving the server
• convenience - sync partial tables, groups of tables, and related records

This does not mean curl can fetch some JSON and print it to STDOUT. That would not be new. What it means is that the --write-out option now supports JSON as an output format. Pipe that output to a tool like jq and you get something like this:

{
  "url_effective": "https://example.com/",
  "http_code": 200,
  "response_code": 200,
  [lots more but I snipped them for length]
}

Which is pretty cool, if you ask me.

Sometimes it’s nice to avoid the news sites but still stay up-to-date with the spread. You can display world-wide data or specify a country of interest.

This repository contains a single-file implementation of YouTube video downloader written in Go. It does not require any third-party packages, only built-in packages from the standard library. The code is compact and easily-readable.

Nowhere near the features of youtube-dl (which is like a swiss army knife for downloading videos off the internet), but cool nonetheless. You can read the entirety of GoTube’s source code in a single sitting, which makes it great for learning and tinkering.

gh brings many of GitHub’s concepts to the terminal. You know, things like pull requests and issues. The tool is still under heavy development and they’re looking for feedback. If you’re an early adopter, this is the perfect time to get involved and let your voice be heard. Oh, and if you’ve been using hub for years already, here’s how the new shiny compares:

gh is a new project for us to explore what an official GitHub CLI tool can look like with a fundamentally different design. While both tools bring GitHub to the terminal, hub behaves as a proxy to git and gh is a standalone tool.

Do you have an AWS account? Great. Do you want to run cron jobs in the cloud?

Cronyo provides A simple CLI to manage your cron jobs on AWS.

In addition, Cronyo can instantly deploy a couple of super-simple, helpful and secure lambda functions to perform HTTP GET/POST requests for you. So if you need to trigger any webhooks on schedule, an AWS account and Cronyo is all you need :)

bandwhich sniffs a given network interface and records IP packet size, cross referencing it with the /proc filesystem on linux or lsof on MacOS. It is responsive to the terminal window size, displaying less info if there is no room for it. It will also attempt to resolve ips to their host name in the background using reverse DNS on a best effort basis.

This looks much better than me fumbling through lsof’s man page for ten minutes and then giving up.

Quickly view and search notifications, mark notifications as read (or unsubscribe entirely), add comments to issues (and more) all from the warm glow of your trusty terminal.

Inspired by a similar post by Ben Boyter this a list of useful command line tools that I use. It’s not a list of every tool I use. These are tools that are new or typically not part of a standard POSIX command line environment.

By “illustrated” he means there’s a screencap of the tools in action.

Liran Tal:

I wrote this tiny module thing that allows you to quickly check if a website is running vulnerable JS libs straight from the terminal. You’d be surprised how many websites are still running old and vulnerable versions of jQuery, Bootstrap, Angular and others.

Use it responsibly ;-)

navi allows you to browse through cheatsheets (that you may write yourself or download from maintainers) and execute commands, prompting for argument values.

Because the “right” way to do many things begins with curl 😆

Translate Shell (formerly Google Translate CLI) is a command-line translator powered by Google Translate (default), Bing Translator, Yandex.Translate, and Apertium

$ trans -shell -brief
> Rien ne réussit comme le succès.
Nothing succeeds like success.