Tag: commandline interface

The Hello Machine

Jun 23, 2021

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bernard

in human computer interaction, my work, telecommunications

When I worked in telecommunications as an engineer (late 2000’s) Electronic Switching Systems had been pretty much taken over by software switching systems, but the hardware, closely coupled to that software, was still very much an important component. While the call switching and routing was no longer achieved by thousands and thousands of hardware relays…
Creating rapid CLI prototypes with cli-output

Oct 14, 2020

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bernard

in free open source software, my work, open source designer, prototyping, python pip, python software foundation, user experience

I’m working on the usability of pip (the official Python package manager) at the moment. This short blogpost isn’t about how to design CLIs. It is about creating rapid prototypes with this tool – part “look at this useful tool, part “thank you Pradyun” part feature request list. 🙂 Update After putting together the feature…