[HN Gopher] Atuin Desktop: Runbooks That Run - Now Open Source
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Atuin Desktop: Runbooks That Run - Now Open Source
Author : digdugdirk
Score : 81 points
Date : 2025-09-30 20:44 UTC (2 hours ago)
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| typpilol wrote:
| Is this supposed to completely replace your docs? Or just
| supplement the commands portion of it?
| grim_io wrote:
| So, jupyter notebooks?
| ashu1461 wrote:
| This is more like a local ci / cd workflow
| jhvkjhk wrote:
| Or, org mode.
| reddit_clone wrote:
| Yep. Org Babel was my first thought.
| adastra22 wrote:
| How?
| ashu1461 wrote:
| What are some of the examples of workflows which people have
| built with atuin desktop ?
| J_McQuade wrote:
| Not directly related to this new Atuin feature, but I need to
| vent:
|
| Last week I was trying to `find` something in some directories,
| failed, `cd`d to my home directory and instinctively hit up-
| arrow+return to run the search again. At some time prior to this,
| Atuin had stopped recording new entries without my notice. Want
| to guess the last entry that Atuin _did_ record?
|
| Go on. Guess.
|
| Yep.
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| `rm -rf *`
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| In my home directory.
|
| Luckily I have backups of everything important and didn't
| actually lose anything, and I'm mainly posting this here as a
| funny anecdote. But - still - after getting myself set up again I
| have yet to reinstall Atuin.
| jasonpeacock wrote:
| I mean, the same thing would happen if Bash stopped writing to
| `~/.bash_history` and its last item was `rm`, right?
| jlengrand wrote:
| when was the last time this happened to you?
| synalx wrote:
| Not a single mention of AI, LLMs, or Agents. I'm impressed :)
| sorenjan wrote:
| This looks really useful. I have a home server with various VMs
| and containers, but I don't do server admin very often, so
| whenever something breaks I have to find out how to fix it each
| time. Having terminals in a document just like you can mix code
| and documentation in a Python notebook can probably make admin
| easier for people like me who do it rarely. And of course in a
| professional setting something like this improves the bus factor
| in a lot of projects if you can keep things documented.
| adastra22 wrote:
| What is the catch? This looks professionally done. Is there a
| paid service behind this? Is the open source teams version
| limited in some way?
| BinaryMuse wrote:
| The backend server, Atuin Hub (https://hub.atuin.sh), isn't
| currently open source, but the open source desktop app can
| still connect to it. We also support offline workspaces if you
| prefer using Git or another VCS to manage and collaborate on
| runbooks, rather than using Atuin Hub.
| j45 wrote:
| Interesting way to manage bash scripts and tooling.
|
| On first glance, I kind of like it - bash scripts are often ideal
| due to being largely universal and can minimize dependancies.
|
| I find and if this can be an in between to let anyone access
| configs, or processes, that might be bearable.
| perpil wrote:
| Also see https://runme.dev for a similar approach or
| https://speedrun.cc if you'd like it to work straight from GitHub
| markdown.
| 4b11b4 wrote:
| org tangle
| 4b11b4 wrote:
| Donald Knuth
| 4b11b4 wrote:
| Literate programming
| zem wrote:
| reminds me a bit of a "gradual automation" project i encountered
| a while ago; the idea was that you wrote a shell script that was
| simply a series of "do this thing and press enter when it's
| completed" prompts to capture a workflow precisely, and then
| gradually replacing steps with automated scripts that did the
| same thing.
| phil-martin wrote:
| I think this is a potential building block for transforming how
| MSP organisations manage documentation and workflow.
|
| Despite the goal of homogenizing each clients environment to
| simplify support, there will always be uniqueness amongst them.
| Having documentation that can be collaboratively edited,
| versioned, that is also runnable to perform management tasks
| would be a HUGE deal.
|
| I understand this isn't the target audience, but its exciting to
| imagine the possibilities of other uses.
| max-privatevoid wrote:
| Careful, it's CLAware.
| ElijahLynn wrote:
| Seems similar to Warp Notebooks!
|
| I love Warp Notebooks. And I'm definitely interested in At in
| Desktop, although, if they are run books, the naming isn't quite
| matching up for me.
|
| #NamingIsHard
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