Articles tagged as "cli"

I stumbled upon a cool repository for cheatsheets aptly named “cheat”. It enables the user to store cheatsheets in a series of directories and then access them through cheat {cheatsheet_name}. While there are a ton of community created cheatsheets, I wanted to see if I could get the tool to work with my online notes, which are written in markdown and organized through mkdocs. I was able to get some elements to work quite well, although some functionality will take more work to development.

Publishing a blog post should be quick and easy. While in the zone and writing down an idea frantically, it can be easy to slip up and make an error. This could be an invalid link, repeating a sentence, or spelling a word incorrectly. While nobody is expecting an immense level of editorial scrutiny, most readers would prefer a blog free of those errors over one with them. Fortunately, there are some nifty tools that can help with the proofreading process so that those errors are quickly caught before hitting publish. These tools will work for any editing and publishing flow where there is access to the files from the command line.

I have had a mixed relationship with task management software over the years. Sometimes it seems to jive and I am excited to add tasks into it, and other times I leave it to slowly decay until I notice the subscription bill and cancel. One piece of software that I keep coming back to is Vikunja, which is completely open-source and can be either self-hosted, or you can use the hosted option and have it all taken care of for you on Vikunja cloud. Here, I will go over a super easy way to setup vikunja on a debian vps, and then use the vja command line tool to manage tasks from the command line. On mobile, you can either use the Vikunja web app, or tasks.org which will sync through Caldav.

I have been on a journey recently to discover more terminal tools. Having them close by while working in things like neovim reduces the number of times that I need to bounce around in the browser or the number of applications that I need to install on my machine. Currently I just use alacritty, firefox, and thunderbird and that’s pretty much it. Today I added taskwarrior to the growing list of applications I can use from within the terminal.

I am not sure why the need suddenly dawned on me, but I thought, “wouldn’t it be awesome to be able to post to mastodon without having to go through the trouble of opening up the browser on my computer?”. As a result, I stumbled upon toot (yes, this is what posts on mastodon were originally known as). This amazing tool allows the user to both browse and post to the fediverse directly from the command line, via a simple and easy to remember command, toot.