Tag: cli

Atuin replaces your broken $HISTFILE with a SQLite DB, fzf-style search, and optional E2E-encrypted sync across every machine you own.

RTK, snip, and lean-ctx filter your AI coding agent's output before it burns context tokens. I run RTK daily, here's the one I'd actually switch to.

Claude Code puts an agentic AI assistant in your terminal for real homelab work, compose files, bash, Ansible, systemd. The honest take on cost and data.

fd has sane defaults, parallel walking, and respects .gitignore. find is gnarly but ships everywhere. Here's when each one wins.

Forget docker stats. ctop and lazydocker give you real-time container insights with less friction than typing commands.

Forget bash scripts scattered across your repo. make is a simple task runner that's been around for 50 years and works everywhere.

Master bulk file renaming on Linux with rename, vidir, fd, and mmv. The right tool for every scenario from regex rewrites to visual editing.

du and df still work, but Rust-era tools like dust, duf, and fclones make disk triage faster and way less painful in 2026.

Shell scripts hit a complexity wall. Go gives you a single binary, fast startup, great stdlib, and goreleaser for proper distribution. Here's how to build real CLI tools.

PipeWire replaced PulseAudio and ALSA routing on every major distro. Here's the new audio stack, CLI tools, and how to fix the annoying stuff.

You don't need a GUI to see network packets. Learn tcpdump filters, flags, and pcap capture to debug servers from the command line, no Wireshark needed.

Learn how lazydocker and dive make Docker manageable from your terminal. TUI dashboards, image layer analysis, CI integration, and optimization tips.