Mastodawn

This was invented for #AI. However, I'm finding it really nice for screen readers:
RTK rewrites output from chatty terminal commands that produce a lot of output, often in complex tables, in order to make the output 80 to 90 percent shorter. Just put rtk in front of the command you want to compress. So "rtk git status" instead of "git status". And you can be sure the compacted output is correct because it's just using regular expressions and deterministic rules under the hood to rewrite output from the tools it knows about. If it doesn't know about a particular command, it just passes the output on unchanged.
github.com/rtk-ai/rtk
Now I've got to figure out how to wire this up in #bash so it'll just happen without me typing rtk all the time.

#a11y #screenreader #accessibility #commandline

GitHub - rtk-ai/rtk: CLI proxy that reduces LLM token consumption by 60-90% on common dev commands. Single Rust binary, zero dependencies

CLI proxy that reduces LLM token consumption by 60-90% on common dev commands. Single Rust binary, zero dependencies - rtk-ai/rtk

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anoncheg 1d ago

Title: P0: cURL and jq - main tools of AI Engineer [2025-07-18 Fri]

I wrote Bash command (78 lines) to call freely available
cloud LLM with “cURL” and “jq” tools with history, stdin
or parameters and correctly handling new lines. #dailyreport #commandline #bash #aiengineer #llm #aiassistent

AskUbuntu 2d ago

What are the fundamental CLI commands for navigating and managing files on a Linux server? #commandline #server

https://askubuntu.com/q/1566897/612

What are the fundamental CLI commands for navigating and managing files on a Linux server?

I am really motivated to learn how to manage and configure Linux servers, but as a beginner, the terminal and server administration can feel a bit overwhelming at times. I want to build a solid

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रञ्जित (Ranjit Mathew)2d ago

Very nifty:

“Shell Tricks That Actually Make Life Easier (And Save Your Sanity)”, Christian Hofstede-Kuhn (https://blog.hofstede.it/shell-tricks-that-actually-make-life-easier-and-save-your-sanity/).

Via HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47525243

On Lobsters: https://lobste.rs/s/xpx9vi/shell_tricks_actually_make_life_easier

#Unix #Shell #Bash #Zsh #Terminal #CommandLine #CLI #Tips

Shell Tricks That Actually Make Life Easier (And Save Your Sanity)

Watch someone backspace 40 characters instead of pressing CTRL+W, and you’ll understand why this list exists. A collection of shell tricks-grouped by what works everywhere and what’s Bash/Zsh-speci...

Larvitz Blog

Keepita

2d ago

There are few things in tech more satisfying than:

A terminal command running with 0 errors on the first try. ✅

Seeing your local storage space drop after a long-overdue cleanup. 📉

Getting a clean, structured JSON response without any unexpected nesting. 📊

Small wins keep the gears turning. ⚙️☕
What’s your tech-win of the day?

#Keepita #DevLife #TechWins #JSON #CommandLine #DataManagement #IndieDev #BuildInPublic #CleanCode

Devin Prater :blind:2d ago

So on Windows, we have this issue with NVDA where if you work with Claude code long enough, a good 15-20 minutes, NVDA will hang and die. Well, I thought macOS and VoiceOver would be better, but after a good ten minutes, VoiceOver hung. I had to turn it off and back on a few times to get it going again. Ugh. Screen readers just aren't ready for the reckless prettification of the command line.

#accessibility #blind #mac #claude #cli #commandline #terminal

Keepita

3d ago

alias explore_backup="keepita --open-box" 🖥️🐧

Stop using clunky, corporate software to guess what's hiding in your mobile data. If you love clean paths, structured files, and actual control, you're the reason we built #Keepita.

Run your own data inspection with our Free Trial: https://panel.keepita.com/

Freedom tastes better in the terminal (and in your browser). 😉

#Keepita #Linux #SysAdmin #Terminal #CommandLine #FOSS #OpenSource #IndieDev #BuildInPublic #DataManagement #Privacy

Keepita

Whatisgoingon 3d ago

I always loved command line progress updates - I find them comforting.

You can always see what currently happens. And where it might be stuck.

I really dislike only having a desktop app with an ominous little bar that fills up with pixels.

No wonder that I prefer using the CLI for everything.

#cli #commandline

Frontend Dogma 5d ago

web-features-cli, by @patrickbrosset:

https://www.npmjs.com/package/web-features-cli

#packages #commandline #webplatform #learning

web-features-cli

A command-line tool for looking up web platform features. Search by keyword, check Baseline status, find MDN docs, specs, browser bugs, survey results, and more, from your terminal.. Latest version: 1.0.0, last published: a day ago. Start using web-features-cli in your project by running `npm i web-features-cli`. There are no other projects in the npm registry using web-features-cli.

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