Hacker News: maaslalani

New comment by maaslalani in "Sheets: Terminal based spreadsheet tool"

maaslalani — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 08:49:04 +0000

Agreed!

New comment by maaslalani in "Show HN: Send Emails from Your Terminal"

maaslalani — Mon, 17 Jul 2023 14:41:59 +0000

You can use the `--to` flag and something like FZF or Gum to populate that from a text file.

`pop --to $(fzf contacts.txt)`

New comment by maaslalani in "Generate invoices from the command line"

maaslalani — Mon, 26 Jun 2023 14:14:44 +0000

Totally, thanks so much! Also I do plan on adding different templates in the future through a --template flag which would write different PDFs based on the value selected.

New comment by maaslalani in "Generate invoices from the command line"

maaslalani — Mon, 26 Jun 2023 14:13:43 +0000

Hey! Author here, I probably would have posted this to HN since this tool is just meant to make invoice generation possible from the command line. Now that we have this tool it's quite easy to add more templates (just another flag) and it can customize the look of the invoice.

New comment by maaslalani in "Generate invoices from the command line"

maaslalani — Mon, 26 Jun 2023 14:12:25 +0000

Same here, finally got around to building it! Thanks for the support!

New comment by maaslalani in "Generate invoices from the command line"

maaslalani — Mon, 26 Jun 2023 14:11:49 +0000

Yes! Soon, there will be JSON / YAML import support. I definitely want to add some more templates as well.

New comment by maaslalani in "Generate invoices from the command line"

maaslalani — Mon, 26 Jun 2023 14:10:15 +0000

Yes, this is definitely possible with troff/groff/latex/etc... I built this tool as I wanted nice looking invoices that could be generated instantly. I want to add templates in the future so that I can change the style as well. I spend most of my time on the CLI so having interoperability with other tools such as `date` and `time` etc... to combine commands and script the generation process was one of my goals.

New comment by maaslalani in "Generate invoices from the command line"

maaslalani — Mon, 26 Jun 2023 14:07:34 +0000

That's a good point. I definitely want to support different formats will probably need to support a --format and --template flag as well.

Rethinking search results ranking on Sourcegraph

maaslalani — Wed, 09 Nov 2022 20:27:32 +0000

Article URL: https://about.sourcegraph.com/blog/new-search-ranking

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33537366

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

New comment by maaslalani in "VHS: CLI home video recorder"

maaslalani — Thu, 27 Oct 2022 18:16:39 +0000

We definitely want to add an option to record a session which would output a generated file for you!

New comment by maaslalani in "VHS: CLI home video recorder"

maaslalani — Thu, 27 Oct 2022 17:11:17 +0000

This is actually really cool. Thanks for sharing this!

New comment by maaslalani in "VHS: CLI home video recorder"

maaslalani — Thu, 27 Oct 2022 17:10:23 +0000

We started off hand rolling the parser and had that fully implemented and then wrote the tree-sitter grammar. If I were to do it again I would probably use tree-sitter for the actual repo so that the implementations were the same for sure.

New comment by maaslalani in "VHS: CLI home video recorder"

maaslalani — Thu, 27 Oct 2022 17:08:47 +0000

Author here. Fair point! Definitely forgot to compress it and make it smaller. Thanks for the call out.

New comment by maaslalani in "Show HN: Gum, a tool for glamorous shell scripts"

maaslalani — Sun, 31 Jul 2022 18:21:10 +0000

Thank you so much for the kind words! It really means a lot.

Show HN: Gum, a tool for glamorous shell scripts

maaslalani — Thu, 28 Jul 2022 13:14:37 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/charmbracelet/gum

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32263827

Points: 55

# Comments: 9

New comment by maaslalani in "Charm – Tools to make the command line glamorous"

maaslalani — Sun, 23 Jan 2022 21:36:13 +0000

I've been using Charm tools and libraries for a while now, truly some of the coolest stuff I've ever experienced on the command line.

New comment by maaslalani in "Slides: Terminal based Markdown presentation tool"

maaslalani — Fri, 05 Nov 2021 03:06:55 +0000

Slides also allows embedding snippets and executing code blocks and displaying results, by the way! Also it can accept input from stdin so you can use pandoc to convert to markdown before piping the output into slides to make that work :D

Show HN: Hawkeye Access – Control your Mac using head movements

maaslalani — Fri, 21 Feb 2020 16:27:10 +0000

Control your Mac using head movements. Rotate your head to move the cursor and make facial expressions to click, drag, and scroll. Powered by your iPhone’s TrueDepth camera.

Try out the Hawkeye Access for Mac beta: https://www.usehawkeye.com/access-mac

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22384330

Points: 7

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