The second half of shipping a CLI: Homebrew tap, Scoop bucket, and the SHA dance
What happens after you publish to npm? For Mac and Windows users, mostly nothing. Here is the packaging side-quest of getting ipwhoami onto brew and scoop.
A short history of the CLI I built to stop curling IP APIs
It was supposed to be a weekend CLI. Then the name got stolen, the providers started disagreeing with each other, the rate limits hit back, and somewhere along the way the simple tool grew its own self-hosted backend.
My family thinks WhatsApp can send anything. So I wrote a Python CLI.
A 2005 wedding video, an 8 GB .VOB file, a family WhatsApp group with unreasonable faith, a small privacy grudge against Google, and the weekend Python CLI that came out of it.
dfree: stop digging with your hands, you've got an axe now
A short story about running out of server space because of academy videos, and the shell tool I wrote so I'd never hear 'Vineeth, we can't upload anymore' again.
Building agent-sessions: a universal session manager for the AI CLI era
Five AI coding agents, five incompatible session formats, one terminal UI to browse them all — and the reverse-engineering it took to get there.
diskdoc and dockit: same problem, two languages, different answers
I built two disk cleanup CLIs — one in Rust with a TUI, one in Go with risk scoring. Here's what each language and design taught me that the other couldn't.