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{{< tweet "1657139515557920770" >}}
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2. It works with other command line programs via pipes.
3. The "API" is just text over stdin/stdout.

![pipe examples](https://vhs.charm.sh/vhs-7j0LzNCGaBjF6v91QkXJgr.gif "Pipe into whatever you want")
![pipe examples](/content/snips-retro/pipe.gif "Pipe into whatever you want")

But, this isn't just a command line utility. While I love the Unix Philosophy, it is not my creed. Just as much as I believe simplicity is key in software development, the user experience is just as important. This is often a very hard balance.

Under the covers, snips.sh is a stateful remote resource that requires functionality beyond the simple input/output. And that's what the TUI is for. It's a shell into the user's snips. You can use the TUI to view snips syntax highlighted, edit attributes and delete them.

![tui](https://vhs.charm.sh/vhs-1MRS4DCN6XUpxzM2PrqCfL.gif "A user can `ssh` into the TUI to view/manage snips")
![tui](/content/snips-retro/ssh.gif "A user can `ssh` into the TUI to view/manage snips")

As a developer building tools for developers, I know how comfortable most are in the terminal, which is why I chose that as the entrypoint over a web UI. They don't even need to lift their fingers off the keyboard.

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### Open Source

We've had some great contributions like [zstd compression](https://github.com/robherley/snips.sh/pull/46), [arm64 support](https://github.com/robherley/snips.sh/pull/42), bugfixes and more. Dependabot is also carrying the weight a bit with **~65** Pull Requests alone.
We've had some great contributions like [zstd compression](https://github.com/robherley/snips.sh/pull/46), [arm64 support](https://github.com/robherley/snips.sh/pull/42), bug fixes and more. Dependabot is also carrying the weight a bit with **~65** Pull Requests alone.

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[^1]: https://sqlite.org/fasterthanfs.html
[^2]: https://fly.io/docs/litefs/
[^3]: https://github.com/robherley/snips.sh/commit/4982dafd6204d56c7670aa2ef258638e318447f4
[^4]: https://github.com/robherley/snips.sh/pkgs/container/snips.sh
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