command-line

Release 0.33 of the LLM tool includes upgrades to OpenAI dependencies, enhanced embedding key support, repeatable prompt templates, and reasoning summary options for Responses API models.

Hax is a minimalist, terminal-native coding agent written in C, designed to be lightweight, memory-efficient, and friendly to local LLM usage, with support for multiple providers.

The author lost their phone and used Claude to generate findphone, a command-line tool that tracks nearby Bluetooth devices by signal strength, demonstrating how AI can quickly create custom utilities.

A community-driven Linux command-line utility that reproduces the official Tamron Lens Utility, letting users view and change settings on compatible Tamron lenses connected over USB.

An educational article explaining shell event designators (history expansion) like !! and !$ to reuse and modify previous commands lazily in bash, zsh, and other shells.

findphone is a command-line utility for macOS that locates nearby Bluetooth devices by signal strength, useful when Find My is unavailable (e.g., under MDM). It offers survey and hunt modes, optional sound feedback, and privacy features like address redaction.

Julio Merino presents an old-new take on argument parsing in Rust, extending the getopts crate into a small framework that prioritizes Unix-style tool integration over language-ecosystem conventions.

A developer shares the journey of building 'amused', a minimal music player with a daemon/client architecture that leverages Unix pipes for playlist manipulation, emphasizing simplicity and composability.

A task-centered guide to iproute2, the Linux networking toolkit, covering ip, bridge, and ss commands with practical usage examples.

Explains the shell colon (null command) and its practical uses like argument checking, setting defaults, and file operations.

Late.sh is a command-line social space for tech enthusiasts, offering radio, games, collaborative art, chat, and work profiles via SSH, with identity tied to SSH keys.

uhubctl is a command-line utility to control USB power per-port on smart USB hubs, supporting a wide range of compatible hubs.

An in-depth article about Git's `--end-of-options` flag, its history, and its importance in preventing argument injection vulnerabilities, including related CVEs.

The author created a bash enumerator tool to replace xargs for command-line enumeration tasks.

DoorDash launched a limited beta of its CLI tool, dd-cli, allowing developers to order DoorDash directly from the command line or via AI agents, enabling agentic commerce.

claude-code-recap is a command-line tool that lists the path, summary, branch, model, and round count of all Claude Code sessions on your computer, and supports one-click session recovery.

A comprehensive guide on building and shipping macOS and iOS apps entirely from the command line without opening Xcode, using XcodeGen and Apple's command-line tools.

An open-source guide to help write better command-line programs, updating traditional UNIX principles for the modern day.

A blog post demonstrates how to fix the error when accidentally typing 'jj jj' in the jj version control system by creating a recursive alias in the jj config file that passes arguments through using 'util exec --'.

Bash4LLM+ is a lightweight, dependency-free Bash wrapper for LLM APIs, offering secure and auditable interaction with Groq and other providers, with features like dynamic model lists, streaming, and extensible extras.