-z might be pointless since you’re transferring files locally.

can confirm, really really good game

https://github.com/shell-pool/shpool ?

There’s nothing inherently wrong with OpenVPN, so if you’re happy with it, just stay with it.

wow so lazy just pressed ctrl-ξ ctrl-ψ

In case you decide to look for alternatives, I would probably go with elastic/filebeat/grafana, a fairly standard log monitoring suite. Not saying it’s better or worse than Victoria Logs, which i have no experience with.

You can start by moving your development workflows (pull requests, issue tracking, etc.) to something like codeberg. You can continue publishing your PyPI package from Github by just pushing your code from codeberg to Github.

Eventually you can also move the publishing pipeline over as well. I don’t know how complicated your library is, of course, but in simplest cases it’s a matter of rewriting a config file in a slightly different way.

I think it depends a lot on what kind of application you’re thinking of. Here are some examples of tools that I particularly remember for having nice CLI interfaces, but they are all slightly different in terms of the number of operations/entities they support.

Single operation, a lot of different types of data: httpie

httpie is a CLI HTTP client. It allows to generate fairly complex requests, choose which diagnostic information you want to see, etc.

Examples:

$ https httpie.io/hello
$ http PUT pie.dev/put X-API-Token:123 name=John
$ http -v pie.dev/get

Several operations, a lot of parameters: Bazel

Bazel is a build system. There are only a handful of operations you typically perform (build, run, test, query), but they all follow the same pattern.

Examples:

$ bazel build //app
$ bazel --quiet build //app -c opt
$ bazel --quiet run //app -c opt -- --port=1234

Multiple entites, multiple operations: LVM

I really liked the interface of Linux Volume Manager tools. They consist of multiple commands that follow the same pattern, and use the same flags for options.

Examples:

# vgcreate -n vg_name
# vgs
# pvcreate /dev/sda
# vgextend vg_name /dev/sda
# lvcreate vg_name -n lv_name -L5G
# lvresize vg_name/lv_name -L+1G
# lvs

Wanted to mention jj too. It follows a fairly standard pattern of ‘<command> <noun> <verb>’, e.g. ‘jj bookmark create’, allows to abbreviate unambiguous commands (e.g. ‘jj b c’), has a lot of QoL features (such as highlighting unique prefixes of change IDs in the output). Really a lot of thought went into CLI design specifically it seems.

ngl, tilda swinton in a video game would be based af

Go to Preferences -> Audio -> Replay Gain mode and set it to “Album” (if you’re listening to whole albums) or “Track” (if you’re mixing it up). This will let VLC read the ReplayGain[1] tags in your files and adjust playback volume accordingly. Chances are high that a lot of your collection already has these tags, and you won’t have to do anything else. If some of your files don’t have these tags, just run a tool (https://github.com/complexlogic/rsgain for example) to generate them.

Nice! I used to do something like this, which avoids xargs altogether:

cat urls.txt | while read url; do echo download $url; done