Making the command line glamorous (Changelog Interviews #481)

This week we’re talking to Toby Padilla, Co-Founder at Charm — where they build tools to make the command line glamorous. We talk about the state of the art, the next big thing happening on the command line and in ssh-land. They have an array of open source tooling to build great apps for the terminal and Charm Cloud to power a new generation of CLI apps. We talk through all their tooling, where things are headed for CLI apps, the focus and attention of their team, and what’s to come in bringing glamor to the command line.

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Featuring:

• Toby Padilla – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
• Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
• Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X

Show Notes:

• charm.sh
• Charm Cloud
• kitty - The fast, feature-rich, GPU based terminal emulator
• betaworks: build better
• Julie Zhang on Twitter

Glamour projects

• GitHub’s CLI

Wish projects

• Wordle clone

Bubble Tea projects

• achannarasappa/ticker
• maaslalani/slides
• mergestat/mergestat
• minio/mc
• supabase/cli
• antonmedv/llama
• dlvhdr/gh-prs
• tendermint/starport
• mathaou/termdbms
• mvisonneau/gitlab-ci-pipelines-exporter
• oz/tz
• trashhalo/imgcat
• maaslalani/gambit

Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!