ellieh

(hi! I worked a lot on atuin desktop)

we saw a bunch of issues with desktop, in no particular order

1. authoring runbooks is difficult, most people barely document their work let alone make it executable

2. keeping runbooks up to date is difficult, they are error-prone across systems

3. agents are now pretty good at a number of the tasks these ideas solve for, and are good at working around issues caused by docs becoming out of date/etc

all these tools are great for your own notes, but are very difficult to scale

we actually have an mcp built on top of this that you can use, no problem!

Ahh yes, we’ve done a lot of performance optimisation since then. We regularly test on >1m records and have no issues

Make sure you’re using the daemon (the install script will handle this) and you should be good to go

Very happy to help if you have any problems. Ellie at Atuin dot sh

(hi! I work on atuin!)

yes, it's improved a lot in the last couple of years! what in particular bothered you?

Hey! Maintainer here! Happy to answer any questions people may have

tbf they are probably looking for customers with cloud spend ending in 'm'

thank you! if you ever have any thoughts or feedback, please let us know <3

Hey! Atuin maintainer here! Happy to answer any questions

Personally I have never been bothered by programs using my home folder. I don’t regularly ls the contents of it, and just browse by path from my shell anyway, so the clutter is barely visible to me

sure, but with unsafe Rust you have a very clear marking for the section of code that requires additional care and attention. it is also customary to include a "SAFETY" comment outlining why using unsafe is OK here

I wish it was easier to know which projects are in desperate need of funding because I love pgbackrest and totally would have donated here, and I suspect many others would have too :/

> I imagine this will push some new users away

I suspect it will gain them more users than it will lose

Most other tools doing this are heavy, buggy, and built on electron

So Atuin actually runs postgresql on the server only - the part that handles sync for many users

On the client, it uses sqlite. As of recently, it also keeps an in-memory Nucleo index to make fuzzy searching much faster

> Codeberg is a German-based nonprofit organization, and it’s hard to imagine going wrong with this choice.

I like what they're doing, however Codeberg's 14 day uptime is _97.05%_. I've heard from many that downtime is normal there, and is worse than GitHub (which is already... bad). This makes them a non-starter imo, until that improves.

With the current trend of things going down all the time, the best way to compete is just to be available.

I’m not sure what you mean here - we never supported fzf, other than a super early prototype in like 2021

This release actually adds support for nucleo, which matches with the same algorithm as fzf and was a common request

as a motorcyclist I often feel more comfortable riding near waymos

at this point I trust that they have seen me, know that I'm there, and won't behave unpredictably

this happens to me so often that I wonder if it's something YC suggest people do

gpui existing in the first place is a result of them raising VC

> In other words: get an actually Linux supported laptop for Linux.

40% battery for 4hrs of real work is better than pretty much any linux supported laptop I've ever used

The main difference otherwise is that Atuin stores much more data + syncs it

We shelled out to fzf in the very early days, but found the initial indexing to be a bit slower + add latency vs SQLite

Let me know if there’s anything I can help with!

You’re very welcome! Glad it’s working well for you

One of the main things we’re aiming to do here is make these manual processes much less manual! I’m a big believer in automating things gradually, which runbooks enable

Not just yet! We support a bunch of features that don’t fit into markdown very well.

We will have better markdown support soon

Very happy to hear you find it so useful! Please do let me know if there’s anything we can do to make it better for you

> It could be interesting to see if it would be enough to add shell history as a completion source.

Atuin runbooks (mentioned in the article) do this! Pretty much anywhere we allow users to start typing a shell command we feed shell history into the editor

this is so cool! really excited to see where it goes

Yes! Working on that soon, the same runtime can be used elsewhere. Wanted to start with the GUI so we could really make it what we want, but up next

1. TUI for interactive terminal runbooks

2. CLI for hands-off execution, CI, etc

Thanks for sharing! Maintainer here, lmk if you have any questions <3

we could absolutely plug it into the codemirror linter! thanks for mentioning

issue: https://github.com/atuinsh/desktop/issues/47