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A GUI for constructing and executing Unix pipelines

19 mentions on Hacker News by 1 person: 1 story, 18 comments · first 2024-07-02 · latest 2026-01-20

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  1. Would this be something along those lines? https://github.com/williamcotton/guish It's a GUI for constructing and executing Unix pipelines and it shows the output of each step in the pipeline.
    comment by williamcotton · 2026-01-20 · in The Unix Pipe Card Game
  2. …bidirectional mapping between a GUI and a shell pipeline: Screenshots and GIFs for the explanation! https://github.com/williamcotton/guish
    comment by williamcotton · 2025-07-01 · in Code-GUI bidirectional editing via LSP
  3. …Guish, a bi-directional CLI/GUI for constructing and executing Unix pipelines: https://github.com/williamcotton/guish
    comment by williamcotton · 2025-02-24 · in Ask HN: What are you working on? (February 2025)
  4. …complex systems: Guish, a bi-directional CLI/GUI for constructing and executing Unix pipelines: https://github.com/williamcotton/guish WebDSL, fast C-based pipeline-driven DSL for building web apps with SQL, Lua and jq:…
    comment by williamcotton · 2025-02-19 · in My LLM codegen workflow
  5. Guish, a bi-directional CLI/GUI for constructing and executing Unix pipelines: https://github.com/williamcotton/guish WebDSL, fast C-based pipeline-driven DSL for building web apps with SQL, Lua and jq:…
  6. …highlighting, error syntax reporting, etc. Converts AST to postgres ilike, tsvector or pg_search. https://github.com/williamcotton/guish A bi-directional GUI editor for constructing Unix pipelines with bash CLI parsed to graphical modules.…
    comment by williamcotton · 2025-02-03 · in Vibe Coding
  7. …were almost entirely written with LLMs: https://github.com/williamcotton/search-input-query https://github.com/williamcotton/guish Both are non-trivial but certainly within the context window so they're not large projects. However, they…
  8. …non-trivial applications like these that I made with Claude Projects writing 90% - 95% of the code: https://github.com/williamcotton/guish https://github.com/williamcotton/search-query-parser-scratch...
  9. This is almost entirely written by LLMs: https://github.com/williamcotton/guish I was the driver. I told it to parse and operate on the AST, to use a plugin pattern to reduce coupling, etc. The machine did the tippy-taps for me and at a…
    comment by williamcotton · 2024-09-15 · in Terence Tao on O1
  10. …I will be able to guide a computing assistant through the entire process and with great joy! [0] https://github.com/williamcotton/guish
    comment by williamcotton · 2024-08-25 · in The art of programming and why I won't use LLM
  11. …Most of this project was written by Claude where I acted as a very high level architect. https://github.com/williamcotton/guish It benefited from using a Claude Project and keeping the source up to date. It is also a good practice to bail…
  12. …the result of each step in the pipeline's output. Plenty of screenshots, a demo video, and more at https://github.com/williamcotton/guish I'd love feedback, positive or negative!
    comment by williamcotton · 2024-07-23 · in Where should visual programming go?
  13. …with various formats depending on the output type, eg JSON vs CSV. I'd love any and all feedback! https://github.com/williamcotton/guish
    comment by williamcotton · 2024-07-22 · in Glisp: Graphical Lisp
  14. I've been playing around recently with a project I'm calling guish . https://github.com/williamcotton/guish It is an experiment in using *nix pipelines to put languages on an even footing and not just treat them as strings embedded in…
    comment by williamcotton · 2024-07-17 · in Little Languages (1986) [pdf]
  15. …experimenting with some GUI-meets-shell-pipeline ideas with a tool I’ve been working on call guish. https://github.com/williamcotton/guish I’m curious to know if anyone knows of any similar tools or approaches to composable GUIs!
    comment by williamcotton · 2024-07-05 · in The Software Crisis
  16. I hand-wrote perhaps 10-20 lines of this project: https://github.com/williamcotton/guish The rest is Claude 3.5 (with a dash of GPT-4o) with a LOT of supervision! I'd say I'm about 8 hours deep and that this would have taken me at least…
    comment by williamcotton · 2024-07-03 · in AI's $600B Question
  17. …| pngtohtml And then fill in the blanks with an instance of the Monaco code editor, looking like: https://github.com/williamcotton/guish/assets/13163/a5214e93... It's a small program but it's not a trivial task to get the UX working in a…
  18. …the claim that LLMs are not useful. I hand-wrote perhaps 10 lines of code in this entire project: https://github.com/williamcotton/guish I spent most of the weekend playing with my kids in the pool. Three years ago this would have taken…