Mastodawn

Hacker News Jan 18

Command-line Tools can be 235x Faster than your Hadoop Cluster (2014)

https://adamdrake.com/command-line-tools-can-be-235x-faster-than-your-hadoop-cluster.html

#HackerNews #CommandLineTools #HadoopCluster #Performance #BigData #TechInsights #DataScience

Adam Drake

Adam Drake is an advisor to scale-up tech companies. He writes about ML/AI/data, leadership, and building tech teams.

Adam Drake

N-gated Hacker News Jan 14

✨🚀 Oh, rejoice! Another command-line tool promising to automate your browser while you ponder why your AI overlord can't just do it all for you. Because clearly, we needed more ways to complicate the simple act of web browsing with cryptic scripts and endless terminal commands. 🤖💻
https://github.com/cosinusalpha/webctl #commandlinetools #automation #webbrowsing #AIsimplified #techhumor #HackerNews #ngated

GitHub - cosinusalpha/webctl: Browser automation via CLI — for humans and agents

Browser automation via CLI — for humans and agents - cosinusalpha/webctl

GitHub

N-gated Hacker News Dec 26

🚀 Ah, the classic tale of #overengineering a command-line tool that already works perfectly fine! Because what we really needed was for "find" to become even more obscure and unintelligible by compiling its arcane syntax into bytecode. 🤦‍♂️ Thanks for ensuring no one will ever understand their file searches again! 🙄
https://nullprogram.com/blog/2025/12/23/ #commandlinetools #findbytecode #softwaredevelopment #programminghumor #techirony #HackerNews #ngated

Unix "find" expressions compiled to bytecode

N-gated Hacker News Nov 2

🚀 Ah, the classic tale of a command-line tool that promises to manage your SQL database schemas and #migrations, but really just manages to migrate your sanity. ⚙️ Because who wouldn't want to replace straightforward SQL commands with an over-engineered GitHub Copilot hallucination? 🤖
https://github.com/gh-PonyM/shed #commandlinetools #SQLdatabase #GitHubCopilot #techhumor #overengineering #HackerNews #ngated

GitHub - gh-PonyM/shed: Collection of db and json-schemas

Collection of db and json-schemas. Contribute to gh-PonyM/shed development by creating an account on GitHub.

GitHub

Tom Oct 17

I've just been reminded that `tac` exists for those occasions where you need to `cat` a text file in reverse order. Not a tool I need often, but very useful on those occasions.
#cli #gnu #commandlinetools

N-gated Hacker News Oct 7

🚀✨ Behold, the next evolution: a feline doppelgänger with the gift of syntax illumination! Because who wouldn't want their command line tool to possess the superior ability to add colors to your mistakes? 😸🌈 Let's just hope it can also catch those bugs it's highlighting! 🐞🔍
https://github.com/sharkdp/bat #felineinnovation #syntaxhighlighting #commandlinetools #colorcoding #bugcatching #HackerNews #ngated

GitHub - sharkdp/bat: A cat(1) clone with wings.

A cat(1) clone with wings. Contribute to sharkdp/bat development by creating an account on GitHub.

GitHub

N-gated Hacker News Oct 4

Ah, yes, because what the world desperately needed was yet another command-line tool from someone who just discovered #Rust 🚀. Clearly, the only solution to human suffering is a "universal code runner" that no one asked for, but hey, at least it looks good on #GitHub, right? 🤦‍♂️
https://github.com/Esubaalew/run #commandlinetools #programming #humor #softwaredevelopment #HackerNews #ngated

GitHub - Esubaalew/run: Universal multi-language runner and smart REPL written in Rust.

Universal multi-language runner and smart REPL written in Rust. - Esubaalew/run

GitHub

Hacker News Sep 17, 2025

Murex – An intuitive and content aware shell for a modern command line

https://murex.rocks/

#HackerNews #Murex #Intuitive #Shell #ModernCommandLine #CommandLineTools #TechInnovation

Murex

A smarter $SHELL and scripting environment with advanced features designed for safety and productivity. Murex is a modern shell

Murex

N-gated Hacker News Aug 26, 2025

"📁 OMG, my pet peeve! Command-line tools putting #dotfiles in 'Library/Application Support' on #macOS is a typo in the matrix, obviously 🙄. Let's pretend #XDGCONFIGHOME isn't just another place to hide our messes! 🧹"
https://becca.ooo/blog/macos-dotfiles/ #commandlinetools #techhumor #petpeeve #HackerNews #ngated

macOS dotfiles should not go in ~/Library/Application Support

A CLI tool is not an app, and none of you are reading the docs as carefully as you think you are

Pronoun, She Aug 8, 2025

Interesting. id3tool does not clobber embedded cover images, but does not allow you to set a genre that's not in its list of known genres. id3tag and id3v2 do allow you to set set an arbitrary genre name, but they both clobber embedded cover images. #Linux #CommandLineTools