
The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source
Bringing Atuin to the desktop (Interview)
Oct 22, 2025 · 56 min · 54.6 MB
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Ellie Huxtable’s magical shell tool, Atuin, won developers’ hearts by syncing, searching, and backing up our shell history with ease. Now Ellie is tackling the desktop with a GUI built to help teams make their workflows repeatable, shareable, and reliable.
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- 0:00This week on The Changelog
- 1:00Sponsor: Augment Code
- 4:30Start the show!
- 5:52Atuin is so cool
- 7:03To CLI and beyond
- 8:52Why desktop
- 10:06How does it work
- 12:54Runbooks that run?
- 15:11Container concerns
- 16:39Apple losing steam
- 18:59The hard parts
- 23:19Sponsor: Outshift by Cisco
- 24:36Tauri as a platform
- 31:55CLI monetization
- 34:16The reception
- 35:54Jerod's first run
- 39:38Sharing runbooks
- 42:26Portability concerns
- 43:45In the pipeline
- 46:17Open contribution?
- 48:25The roadmap
- 49:42Is the CLI done?
- 51:55Invisible tools are good tools
- 52:32Wrapping up
- 54:41Closing thoughts
- 56:20Changelog++ (it's better!)