openshovelshack

A blog about open source tools, terminal utilities and the role of technology in our lives. We write about useful tools, share productivity workflows, and explore how technology can enhance daily workflows.

openshovelshack focuses on practical, hands-on content for people looking to optimize their workflows and learn about cool tools.

Blog Posts

• Growing up DVD: A reflection about the magic of movies, technological advancements and the loss of attention
• The agentic whiplash: Breakneck speed and deliberate friction
• The convenience conundrum: Why make it easy if we can do it the hard way?
• Thinking in data: Fuzzy input, structured data and how I started to love DSPy
• The octopus and the rake: Being able to effectively command an army of agents might become an essential skill
• The age of personal computing: this time, it really is personal
• The AI convergence: no matter how you feel about AI, it's starting to take over the public discourse
• Everything, everywhere, all at once: It has never been easier to learn new skills and once it clicks, you feel like you've been handed superpowers.
• Let it marinate: conscious and subconscious contemplation is a powerful thing
• Open source sparks joy: there is no better feeling than finding a great tool that solves one of your problems and then realizing that it's completely open for you to check out
• Getting terminal-pilled: Once you realize how much faster you can do stuff when using a terminal-centric workflow, you never wanna go back!

Tools

• atuin: magical history for you terminal
• espanso: the only text expander you need
• pi: a not so shitty coding agent
• pinokio: the swiss army knife of AI tools
• tinty: switch your color scheme globally with one command
• tmux: create and switch between multiple terminal seesions at lighting speed
• yazi: Manage your files like Chuck Norris

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