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xenodium
dwim-shell-command
Emacs Lisp2023–2026
xenodium / dwim-shell-command

dwim-shell-command

Save your shell commands/scripts and apply from Emacs with ease.

2Distinct people
4Mentions
0Explicit recommenders
338GitHub stars
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Save your shell commands/scripts and apply from Emacs with ease.

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This week on Hacker News

Nov 7–Nov 14 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/14/2026, 3:03:16 PM UTC.

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HN mentions by year4 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2023-10-06 23:49:30 UTC to 2026-07-24 19:58:10 UTC.

01232023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 3 mentions; 1 submissions, 2 comments20232024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments20242025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2027-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments. Incomplete calendar period.2026*

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20232023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC312
20242024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20252025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
2026 (partial)2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2027-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101

What Hacker News says

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- https://xenodium.com/an-ios-journaling-app-powered-by-org-pl... - Lately, I'm having a go at building a privacy-focused plain-text-based iOS journaling app. I started building it for someone important in my life but now also using it myself. - https://flathabits.com - After reading Atomic Habits, I wanted a habit tracker but most had more friction than I wanted, required accounts, had distractions, lock-in etc. so I built a privacy-focused app, with little friction and no-lock-in (saves to plain text). - https://plainorg.com - There are a gazillion markdown apps on the App Store, but hardly any supporting org markup, so I built one. - https://xenodium.com/scratch-a-minimal-scratch-area - I wanted a surface where I could just dump text with as few taps as possible. - https://github.com/xenodium/macosrec - I wanted to take either screensh
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ots or videos of macOS apps from the command line, so I could integrate anywhere. - https://github.com/xenodium/chatgpt-shell - I'm far down the Emacs rabbit hole, so I prefer Emacs-integrated tools. Built a ChatGPT Emacs shell to see what the hype was all about ;) tl;dr it really does help. - https://github.com/xenodium/dwim-shell-command - A way to manage and easily apply the gazillion one-liners (and more complex scripts) I've come across. I got close to 100 utils check-in now. - https://github.com/xenodium/ob-swiftui - Play around with SwiftUI layouts from the comfort of my preferd editor. - https://github.com/xenodium/company-org-block - Org block completion. - https://xenodium.com - I tend to scratch own itches and post my solutions here.
In Ask HN: What apps have you created for your own use?
Oh, specially ffmpeg and imagemagick! I have a handful of incantations saved over time. Just today I saved a new one for trimming borders on video screenshots https://xenodium.com/trimming-video-screenshots to https://github.com/xenodium/dwim-shell-command/blob/main/dwi... (that’s my cheat sheet). I wrote an Emacs package that works fairly well for saving commands but also making them reusable from its file manager without the need to tweak input or output file paths https://github.com/xenodium/dwim-shell-command While Emacs isn’t everyone’s cup of tea, I think the same concept can be applied elsewhere. Right click on file(s) from macOS Finder or Windows Explorer and apply any of those saved commands. Edit: More examples… - Stitching multiple images: https://xenodium.com/joining-images-from-the-comfort-of-dire... - Batch apply on file
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