1. dog: A command-line DNS client
2. rich-cli: Command line toolbox for fancy output in the terminal

Article of the week: Building the future of the command line

“The cloud is really a whole lot of Unix machines,” Chu says. “And shell is still the best interface we have for the cloud.”

Tip of the week: Using shuf and xargs to create a simple dicware app:

• /usr/share/dict/words is a builtin dictionary
• shuf randomizes input
• xargs executes a given command on each input (by default the command is echo)

# randomly select 5 words from the dictionary:
% shuf -n 5 /usr/share/dict/words

# join the output into one line:
% shuf -n 5 /usr/share/dict/words | xargs  # this is equivalent to `xargs -I{} echo {}`

# make multiple passphrases at once:
% shuf -n 15 /usr/share/dict/words | xargs -n 5

# change the delimeter from space to a character:
% shuf -n 5 /usr/share/dict/words | xargs | tr ' ' '-'