Changelog Interviews

Modern Unix tools


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This week we’re talking with Nick Janetakis about modern unix tools, and the various commands, tooling, and ways we use the commmand line. Do you Bash or Zsh? Do you use cat or bat? What about man vs tldr? Today’s show is a deep dive into unix tools you know and love, or should know and maybe love.

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  • Featuring:

    • Nick Janetakis – Website, GitHub, X
    • Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
    • Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X

    Show Notes:

    • Modern alternatives to Unix commands
    • Modern Unix
    • bat
    • fzf
    • mcfly
    • envsubst from GNU gettext; envsubst in Go
      • Nick’s blog post on envsubst
      • https://uses.tech
      • NanoVMs let you run your apps faster and safer with Unikernels
      • Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

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