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Making shell history magical with Atuin (Changelog Interviews #579)
Today we speak with Ellie Huxtable, the creator of a magical open source tool for syncing, searching & backing up your shell history. Along the way we learn all about the sync service, why she likes Rust, the branding / marketing of the project, how she quit her job to work on it full time, the business model & so much more.
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Featuring:
- Ellie Huxtable – Mastodon, Twitter, Website
- Adam Stacoviak – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, Website
- Jerod Santo – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn
Show Notes:
- Atuin
- Efficient Linux at the CLI with Daniel J. Barrett (Changelog Interviews #547)
- Here’s how to quickly navigate your shell’s history of commands
- RVM and Ruby Version Managment with Michal Papis (Changelog Interviews #102)
- thoughtbot/rcm: rc file (dotfile) management
- ivaaaan/smug: Session manager and task runner for tmux
- RVM
- Wayne Seguin
- RVM and BDSM (Changelog Interviews #66)
Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!