Making shell history magical with Atuin (Interview)
from The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source
Today we speak with Ellie Huxtable, the creator of a magical open source tool for syncing, searching & backing up your shell history. Along the way we learn all about the sync service, why she likes Rust, the branding / marketing of the project, how she quit her job to work on it full time, the business model & so much more.
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- 0:00 Welcome to The Changelog
- 1:05 Sponsor: Sentry
- 4:49 Start the show!
- 5:07 Welcoming Ellie
- 6:25 An intro to Atuin
- 10:23 The sync service
- 12:15 Sync isn't required
- 12:48 Why Ellie likes Rust
- 14:59 How she got the word out
- 16:52 How big of a problem is this?
- 21:19 autin stats
- 24:56 Adam's trust issues
- 29:56 Sponsor: Synadia
- 35:08 Quitting her day job
- 38:54 RVM & Wayne Seguin
- 42:27 Syncing aliases
- 47:45 Ellie's homelab
- 48:31 Sponsor: imgproxy
- 52:00 More on quitting
- 55:20 Building the right thing
- 55:58 Ellie's motorbike
- 57:11 The big dream
- 57:58 Working with Warp
- 1:00:27 On raising money
- 1:02:22 About the name
- 1:04:25 How can we help?
- 1:05:07 Adam's UX advice
- 1:09:06 Thanks Ellie!
- 1:09:29 Up next
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