Simon Willison’s Weblog

Shell History Is Your Best Productivity Tool (via) Martin Heinz drops a wealth of knowledge about ways to configure zsh (the default shell on macOS these days) to get better utility from your shell history.

# 10th April 2024, 11:17 pm / zsh, shell

llmc.sh (via) Adam Montgomery wrote this a neat wrapper around my LLM CLI utility: it adds a “llmc” zsh function which you can ask for shell commands (llmc ’use ripgrep to find files matching otter’) which outputs the command, an explanation of the command and then copies the command to your clipboard for you to paste and execute if it looks like the right thing.

# 16th February 2024, 6:19 pm / llm, llms, ai, generative-ai, zsh

direnv (via) A shell extension (for bash, zsh and others) which can automatically set and unset environment variables when you cd into specific directories. Useful for managing things like a project’s GOPATH or automatically activating Python virtual environments.

# 5th November 2017, 7:59 pm / shell, bash, zsh