The Older I Get, The More Terminal I Become
As I age, I find myself gravitating more towards CLI and TUI applications that can be run from a terminal emulator. And honestly, I am not sure why.
https://readbeanicecream.surge.sh/2025/06/20/the-older-i-get-the-more-terminal-i-become/
blog! “Convert Shotwell Photo Metadata to Digikam Metadata”
Mostly notes to myself.
Shotwell stores most of its information in a database. Which I lost. Because I'm an idiot.
But a bunch of metadata is also stored in the image's EXIF metadata!
Most importantly is the "Original File Name" which should become the "Description" in DigiKam. Unfortunately,…
Read more: https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2025/06/convert-shotwell-photo-metadata-to-digikam-metadata/
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#cli #HowTo #linux
television
https://git.permacomputing.net/television/files.html
I've been in situations of giving a lecture or a workshop where there was no screen or projector available, or... No cable. The usual workaround that I've seen friends and colleagues use is to have everyone join jitsi/zoom/bbb/etc and do the screen sharing there. This works but feels like a grotesque variation of the "a multinational corporation's service as the easiest way of copying files between two nearby devices" entry from the crappy everyday tech bingo.
So here is a response with television, a simple binary that takes screenshots of your desktop at regular intervals and serves the result over http on an amazingly well formatted html page that can be accessed by everyone over LAN/WLAN with their browser. It's *not* a video stream, it's really a 1fps style screensharing web thing which is plenty enough for slides, GUI/TUI/CLI action, etc.
3/?
You and Ted Unangst. (-:
* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44307003
Unless there are two *different* pieces about text editors today that conflate command-line and textual user interface.
shout out an das #yazi plugin #simplestatus
Wirkt das Ganze gleich moderner.
https://github.com/imsi32/yatline.yazi
Sehr cool!
#helix plugin, welches erlaubt Text im Browser zu editieren.
Video im Link:
https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/pull/8675#issuecomment-2982160168
A Gentle Introduction to Ncurses for the Terminally Impatient - Considered by many to be just a dull output for sequential text, the command-line ... - https://hackaday.com/2025/06/17/a-gentle-introduction-to-ncurses-for-the-terminally-impatient/ #softwaredevelopment #softwarehacks #commandline #featured #interest #terminal #ncurses #cli
The alpm-srcinfo #crate in version 0.2.0 offers several improvements to this #library and #CLI for working with #SRCINFO files found in the #package source repositories of #ALPM based packages. 
https://crates.io/crates/alpm-srcinfo/0.2.0
The #crate now allows to write #SRCINFO data to file, has seen improvements to the interface and documentation as well as a few bug fixes.
For further details refer to the #changelog https://alpm.archlinux.page/alpm-srcinfo/CHANGELOG.html#020---2025-06-16
The alpm-pkginfo #crate in version 0.2.0 offers an easier interface for creating package info data from #PKGINFO files.
https://crates.io/crates/alpm-pkginfo/0.2.0
This #library and #CLI crate offers integration with the #PKGINFO #metadata files found in #ALPM based #package files.
See the #changelog for details: https://alpm.archlinux.page/alpm-pkginfo/CHANGELOG.html#020---2025-06-16
With version 0.2.0 the #library and #CLI alpm-mtree offers new features that allow validating a directory with #MTREE data, as well as creating #MTREE data from a directory.
Additionally, we have improved the usability of the parser and the documentation.
The #crate provides integration with the #ALPMMTREE file format which is used in #ALPM based #package files.
https://crates.io/crates/alpm-mtree/0.2.0
For details refer to the #changelog https://alpm.archlinux.page/alpm-mtree/CHANGELOG.html#020---2025-06-16
The #library and #CLI alpm-buildinfo in version 0.2.0 offers many documentation and usability improvements for this #crate providing integration with the #BUILDINFO file format which is used in #ALPM based #package files.
https://crates.io/crates/alpm-buildinfo/0.2.0
For details refer to the #changelog https://alpm.archlinux.page/alpm-buildinfo/CHANGELOG.html#020---2025-06-16
I've build a small tool, similar to tee, but in reverse - wye.
https://github.com/bacv/wye
In my workflow I use cargo build and cargo test a lot, usually those jobs are running in different tmux panes, I wanted a more convenient way to control this process from my editor.
Although I could have done it with tmux and scripts, I felt that making a small tool for it would be fun experiment. #rust #cli #unix
@taak ich hab mal ein #cli Tool gebaut, das die Links von #kleinanzeigen in E-Mails zum Verlängern klickt. Aber es läuft noch nicht als #cronjob
#Click Python composable command line interface toolkit
This is a test of a new feature, for my existing Rust program, for posting to the Fediverse. It's not much to look at, yet, lol. If this works, then just know that I literally sent this from the terminal by typing the path to said program, followed by the name of said function, followed by this message between double quotes. I guess, whether this works the first time or not, this is probably how these things usually start, huh? Gotta start somewhere. Fingers crossed. God, help us all.
EDIT: OH MY GOODNESS!
Released version 1.2.1 of #SeekretService, a simple service written in #Rust for securely accessing #KeePass databases, e. g. from the #cli like #envrc or #direnv.
Get it on GitHub: https://github.com/michix/seekret-service
*Changes:*
- Fixed in-memory encryption (my fault, this got lost and is now there again)
It is available for #Linux, #Windows and #MacOS.
I am happy about feedback!
Cast your vote in the replies! 
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