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More of a fun experiment than anything else, but the Pig Shell is worth playing with: http://pigshell.com/ http://pigshell.com/
by straws 11y ago
More of a fun experiment than anything else, but the Pig Shell is worth playing with:
http://pigshell.com/ http://pigshell.com/
- TeMPOraL 11y agoIt's cool, but I always found such things to be cargo-culting and going in the completly wrong direction. You don't want to make a web shell, you want to use normal shell for web. For a proper "Web UNIX" we need: - websites talking in structured data (not just plain text) - less propertiary bullshit (hint: keep sales & marketing people away from APIs) - ability to conveniently pipe them together anywhere (not on a third-party, complexity-hiding, feature-limiting site like IFTTT) When I can start typing things like these in my own, local shell: @twitter.com/me/tweets/latest | sort > tweets.log echo tweets.log | @facebook.com/me/post/new --activity "Feeling: Happy" --photo /tmp/HN.jpg (where @ is a somewhat general web communication utility) then we'll have a web UNIX.