the eDEX-UI project was originally meant to be ”DEX-UI with less « art » and more « distributable software »”. While keeping a futuristic look and feel, it strives to maintain a certain level of functionality and to be usable in real-life scenarios, with the larger goal of bringing science-fiction UXs to the mainstream.

It might or might not be a joke taken too seriously.

Confession: I’ve shared this before. Sorry not sorry. It’s too cool!

Level up your SSH game with this nice rundown of tricks. How to: add a second factor to your SSH login, use agent forwarding safely, exit from stuck sessions, share a remote terminal session with a friend, and more.

Nice little function to add to your .bashrc:

function mv() {
  if [ "$#" -ne 1 ] || [ ! -e "$1" ]; then
    command mv "$@"
    return
  fi

  read -ei "$1" newfilename
  command mv -v -- "$1" "$newfilename"
}

Click through for usage examples and a lively discussion in the comments about other ways of achieving similar things.

3mux is a terminal multiplexer with out-of-the-box support for search, mouse-controlled scrollback, and i3-like keybindings.

Sign me up ✋

A fun post where the author shows 4 ways you can randomly add some flare to your clear command. I’m a sucker for The Matrix, myself, but the Twilight Zone one is tight, too. Here’s the idea:

alias clear='[ $[$RANDOM % 10] = 0 ] && timeout 3 cmatrix; clear || clear

(assuming you have cmatrix installed)

This is a fantastic collection of Unix/Linux/BSD commands useful for IT work or for advanced users. System commands, processes, file system, SSH, SCP, rsync, encrypting files, SSL certificates, databases, disk quota…and more.

You can even print it for reference offline.

I logged this almost exactly 1 year ago, but nnn is worth another look:

it is also a disk usage analyzer, a fuzzy app launcher, a batch renamer and a file picker. The plugin repository has tons of plugins and documentation to extend the capabilities further. You can plug new functionality and play with a custom keybind instantly.

This is rad!

📅 Never miss CFP deadlines again. conrad remind
📊 Query and explore events using tags, names, locations, and dates conrad show --cfp
🔄 Crawlers upsert (update + insert) events once a week

Data sources include papercall, pydata/event-schedule, and python-organizers/conferences

The DDG team created a fun terminal interface… for your web browser. You know what’s even cooler? A DDG terminal interface… for your terminal. 😉

Onefetch is a command line tool that displays information about your Git project directly on your terminal. Onefetch supports almost 50 different programming languages. If your language of choice isn’t supported: Open up an issue and support will be added.

Jeffrey Paul shares a ⛴ load of goodies. I particularly like this idea:

I have a Makefile in my home directory… that I use to store common tasks related to my local machine… The one I use most often, though, is make clean, which takes everything in ~/Desktop and moves it into ~/Documents/$YYYYMM (creating the month directory in the process if it doesn’t exist), and also empties trashes.

Reader beware: 4154 words, approximately a 23 minute read

Everybody who uses psql uses less pager. It is working well, but there is not any special support for tabular data. I found few projects, but no one was completed for this purpose. I decided to write some small specialized pager for usage as psql pager.

It allows you to monitor systems, services, and important information that you otherwise might keep browser tabs open for, the kinds of things you don’t always need visible, but do check in on every now and then.

A Ruby gem that significantly improves the situation with terminal logging as part of TTY Toolkit. It allows streaming of log data to any IO device (socket, file, etc…) with a highly customizable and pretty output to make key information stand out. You can limit the depth of the displayed data and specify the maximum size in bytes.

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.

it comes with convenient features such as autocomplete suggestion and gesture typing keyboard. It is useful for quickly troubleshooting server problems on the go, or in your bed in the middle of the night. If you occassionally use the SSH app on your phone, you may want to give Swell.sh a try!

A Go module (and standalone binary) to make the output of coloured/formatted text in the terminal easier and more readable. You can use it in your Go programs, and bash etc. too.

Microsoft is launching a new command line app for Windows, dubbed Windows Terminal. It’s designed to be the central location for access to environments like PowerShell, Cmd, and the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL). Microsoft is adding multiple tab support alongside theming and customization for developers who want to tweak the Terminal app.

It officially launches in June, but the source code is already up on GitHub so you build it yourself today.

Hyper 3 is finally out! The primary focus for this release is performance. The latest version includes several enhancements that make Hyper really fast. For those of us who spend a significant amount of time on the command line, this release is a total game changer.

Wireshark is awesome when you have a packet capture on your local machine, but what if you’re on a remote machine and you need to study a pcap? Enter Termshark.

I’ve wanted something like this for so long that I forgot I wanted it. Insta-install!

John D. Cook:

I’ve long been impressed by shell one-liners. They seem like magical incantations. Pipe a few terse commands together, et voilà! Out pops the solution to a problem that would seem to require pages of code. Are these one-liners real or mythology? To some extent, they’re both. Below I’ll give a famous real example. Then I’ll argue that even though such examples do occur, they may create unrealistic expectations.

I agree with his overall argument, but the good news about the command line is you don’t have to become a wizard to get value out of it. Start small and go from there.

While googler is extremely popular among cmdline users, in many forums the need of a similar utility for privacy-aware DuckDuckGo came up. DuckDuckGo Bangs are super-cool too! So here’s ddgr for you!

On our recent text mode episode, we mentioned learning from other people’s dotfiles. Adam found this awesome-dotfiles repo and included it in the show notes, but I thought I’d log it as well to call more attention to it.

Also, did you like my idea near the end of the show to produce some videos of smart/interesting developers walking us through their dotfiles? Holla back in the comments…