Command Line Interfaces (CLI): all things text and console based. OS, dev, libs, shells, apps, utilities, games, ASCII & ANSI art, MUD, BBS, retrocomputing or otherwise--anything text-based is fair game!

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Welcome to the /cli channel! We're a community of command line aficionados.

Anything related to text-based interfaces goes, including: OS, shells, apps, dev, artwork (like ASCII and ANSI), games (like MUD or nethack), or anything in between!

Feel free to share your CLI tips, content, queries, or anything else here.

base-builds

Backup images: castback only grabs the cast and metadata, so no raw images. Raw images are actually hosted on external servers, not on the blockchain. castback will backup links to images used in your casts, so you can simply access the URLs to load the images.

I prefer to render with ANSI blocks (rather than ASCII) and most terminals support 24-bit colour palette, here's an example of 100% text output in a terminal, 120 chars wide, and 240 chars wide.

Both these screenshots are 100% text characters in a terminal shell.

Just sayin'.

Study tools like catimg and cacaview. 🙏

[CASTBACK]

This week in my spare time I've continued building castback, a /cli command line tool that backs up all of a user's farcaster casts, and enables searches. I built this because I found myself always trying to find *that old cast I made last month*. 

- Caches all casts from any FID to filesystem: no need to keep pulling data over API. Can easily update your backup with the most recent batch of casts only.
- Searches and provides link to cast.
- Uses @airstack.eth API, so users don't need a hub, just a free API key. (It took a while since we spoke first about it @betashop.eth but I did finally get around to building with the API, thanks!)

I'll open source and release it once it's all done, but it's working well already!

(Highly recommend checking airstack if you want to do farcaster dev quickly with minimal fuss! 🙏)

Update on my /cli tool to BACKUP all of your casts, and SEARCH through it all! 💾🔍🐱

Finally settled on a name--castback. Progress is going well, all major features are done. I just want to document, tidy up and test a bit more before open sourcing and releasing into the wild.

Farcaster Devs

Not really a pitch but: 

I'm working on a /cli tool that uses @airstack.eth API to help you download & backup your casts in a simple manner.

It also lets you search your past casts.

I always have this problem of trying to find links to my previous casts, so I thought I'd code my own solution.

Been a while since I posted in /cli but I have been working on a CLI tool to backup and search through all of your your farcaster casts.

I'll open source and release it when it's ready. 💾🐱

Anyone ever use a BBS (Bulletin Board Systems)? 

BBSes were a formative part of my growing up, and a critical step pre-internet for connectivity and information access.

I used to dial into these all the time on my modem and spend entire nights on various BBSes, before internet became commonly accessible.

All MS-DOS GUIs

https://youtu.be/sdkKG6ExKic?si=s2WDcRRR0hUog7sR

For ThinkPad owners on Linux, one of the most useful /cli tools I've been using is tlp, to manage the battery of my ThinkPad. It does this in various ways, from setting charging thresholds to processor limits & more.

Nowadays there's power-profiles-daemon, but I still prefer tlp.

For ThinkPad owners on Linux, one of the most useful /cli tools I've been using is tlp, to manage the battery of my ThinkPad. It does this in various ways, from setting charging thresholds to processor limits & more.

Nowadays there's power-profiles-daemon, but I still prefer tlp.

https://linrunner.de/tlp/index.html

techarchive

Do you remember?

if I recall this was the bot integrated in emacs

AiChat on Windows console

1. open https://platform.openai.com/ create secret key;
2. DL https://github.com/sigoden/aichat/releases/download/v0.8.0/aichat-v0.8.0-x86_64-pc-windows-msvc.zip and unzip it;
3. open folder with aichat in console and run it;
4. Initial setup: yes/the key from (2)/no/yes.

Degen Zero

Another day, another /degenzero hit; just tipped some of my favourite gardening and plant-related casts from today. feelsgoodman.

Tomorrow we run it to zero again. 🌾 🐈

Sup nerds! Wanna check your $DEGEN tips from command line shell? Ol' arfy's gotcha covered! 🙏 

Multiple ways, but I like this method (replace 31337 with your FID):

curl -s "https://degentipme-3f9959094869.herokuapp.com/api/get_allowance?fid=31337"|jq -C

- hit the live stats API via curl.
- pipe output to jq.

Using fish shell and confused why $PATH isn't updating from your ~/.profile? It's because fish uses a different method. 😽 🐟 👌 

Use the "fish_add_path" tool instead, which will update your fish configuration file for you, take effect immediately and persist permanently.

introducing pip blame

this tiny tool finds packages that prevent upgrading a transitive dependency. it also gives you links for repos to bother.

https://github.com/banteg/pip-blame

What are your best Bash productivity tips? I'll start:
1. CTRL+R for reverse search
2. You might know !! for preceding command, especially in combination with sudo. But are you also familiar with !$ and !_ which can both be used as substitute for the preceding command's last argument?

Here's an easy way to get your public IP address in a /cli shell using curl:

$ curl ifconfig.me