Bringing Atuin to the desktop
from Changelog Interviews
Ellie Huxtable's magical shell tool, Atuin, won developers' hearts by syncing, searching, and backing up our shell history with ease. Now Ellie is tackling the desktop with a GUI built to help teams make their workflows repeatable, shareable, and reliable.
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- 0:00 This week on The Changelog
- 1:00 Sponsor: Augment Code
- 4:30 Start the show!
- 5:52 Atuin is so cool
- 7:03 To CLI and beyond
- 8:52 Why desktop
- 10:06 How does it work
- 12:54 Runbooks that run?
- 15:11 Container concerns
- 16:39 Apple losing steam
- 18:59 The hard parts
- 23:19 Sponsor: Outshift by Cisco
- 24:36 Tauri as a platform
- 31:55 CLI monetization
- 34:16 The reception
- 35:54 Jerod's first run
- 39:38 Sharing runbooks
- 42:26 Portability concerns
- 43:45 In the pipeline
- 46:17 Open contribution?
- 48:25 The roadmap
- 49:42 Is the CLI done?
- 51:55 Invisible tools are good tools
- 52:32 Wrapping up
- 54:41 Closing thoughts
- 56:20 Changelog++ (it's better!)
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This episode was published on October 22, 2025.
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