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I quit my job to work full time on my open source project

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Re: I quit my job to work full time on my open source project

#82
Does Atuin offer ability to save current path (with timestamp as a bonus) for the command as well?

Looking at OP it looks like it does " recording additional command context"

Often (meaning once every few months) I have to SSH to some less used machines and remember a few incantations where path and time is crucial.

In bash there is a hacky way to add current path and timestamp to history, but I've never gotten it to work exactly right. If you add timestamp then it seems to duplicate the timestamp when you repeat the command.

Re: I quit my job to work full time on my open source project

#84
post #34

Has anyone who uses fish shell compared that to Atuin? I suspect that having my entire shell history accessible might not really be necessary.

I use fish with atuin

I only map atuin to ctrl+r and use fish's native up arrow search for simpler stuff

Re: I quit my job to work full time on my open source project

#85
I quited my job as well to work on

https://glicol.org

I have a lot of feelings, but I don't have a blog so far. I feel that universities should alloc some of their funding to many of these open source projects and open source community should be better managed rather than donation. As for me, my plan is to start my own company and work on hardware .

Re: I quit my job to work full time on my open source project

#86
post #80

This is the dream for many of us, but I hope she comes up with a good business model that doesn't rely on the goodwill of people (e.g., open core) because FOSS is terrible for earning money. The reason is that FOSS is essentially part of the commons, but without being maintained by taxes. In general, people just want free stuff, companies rarely pay for support, and SaaS providers will steal your business if they can…

There are grants, but you have to qualify for them. https://opensource.guide/getting-paid/ https://www.state.gov/supporting-critical-open-source-techno... https://new.nsf.gov/tip/updates/nsf-invests-over-26m-open-so...

The EU also has open source grants FYI

Re: I quit my job to work full time on my open source project

#87
post #80

This is the dream for many of us, but I hope she comes up with a good business model that doesn't rely on the goodwill of people (e.g., open core) because FOSS is terrible for earning money. The reason is that FOSS is essentially part of the commons, but without being maintained by taxes. In general, people just want free stuff, companies rarely pay for support, and SaaS providers will steal your business if they can…

There are grants, but you have to qualify for them. https://opensource.guide/getting-paid/ https://www.state.gov/supporting-critical-open-source-techno... https://new.nsf.gov/tip/updates/nsf-invests-over-26m-open-so...

Some grants exists but they are really tiny compared to the amount of FOSS that needs funding.

Re: I quit my job to work full time on my open source project

#88

What should I be using shell history for? I've never wanted to go back in my history but obviously people are getting a lot of value from it.

I'm lazy and I don't want to type

With fish's shell history for example I can just type 's' and it completes it to 'ssh user@host.tld', because that's the last one starting with S I used. If it's not right, I can type it up to 'ssh' and press arrow up to pick the ssh command I want.

Then I might remember that I did this fancy jq thing once to parse a field in a specific way, I can easily use Atuin to look for it with a nice text-mode UI just by pressing C-r and typing 'jq' as the initial filter.

Re: I quit my job to work full time on my open source project

#89

This is the dream for many of us, but I hope she comes up with a good business model that doesn't rely on the goodwill of people (e.g., open core) because FOSS is terrible for earning money. The reason is that FOSS is essentially part of the commons, but without being maintained by taxes. In general, people just want free stuff, companies rarely pay for support, and SaaS providers will steal your business if they can…

She seems aware this is an issue.

Possibly of interest to anyone pondering doing open source:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17824166

Re: I quit my job to work full time on my open source project

#90
post #82

Does Atuin offer ability to save current path (with timestamp as a bonus) for the command as well? Looking at OP it looks like it does " recording additional command context" Often (meaning once every few months) I have to SSH to some less used machines and remember a few incantations where path and time is crucial. In bash there is a hacky way to add current path and timestamp to history, but I've never gotten it to…

Yes it does, both path and timestamp.

You can even filter to commands for your current directory by just pressing Ctrl+R a few times

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