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Website: https://raycast.com/
Insights: https://twitter.com/dnsmichi/status/1336718843977338882

Blog soon on: https://everyonecancontribute.com/

Script commands: https://github.com/raycast/script-commands
GitLab commands: https://github.com/raycast/script-commands/pull/149

A

And saying hello, everyone.

A

Oh, we should be live now um to our 10th. uh Everyone can contribute kev, kefken or coffee chat, coffee.

A

And I'm I'm really happy um to see a new guest in our in our uh round now who's, currently playing with this camera um nicholas. Do you.

B

Want to give a.

A

Short introduction.

B

In english, well, yes, I'm I'm nicola frankel, I'm a developer advocate at hazel cost I've been a developer or architect or whatever, like I've, been holding technical roles for like 18 years and yeah since two years. I'm a true developer advocate I just code for fun. I I don't have projects with delays of project managers or like like stuff that developers they don't like. I mean I can code for fun final in my life.

B

That's good enough for an introduction, or do you need, like my whole resume? No, you don't want to.

A

For sure I think it's super boring, we can look it up on twitter and linkedin and the like.

A

That's great, but you probably won't understand my austrian.

B

Probably I cannot even swiss german, so yeah australian is just like.

A

It's interesting: um there is another marquee in in this lovely group, who's also from austria,.

B

And you cannot understand each other when you talk german, but.

A

I would ask him to give like two or two words about themselves: um how is the boiler in lower austria.

C

So my name is mike agner, I'm a product manager and a software engineer at the company called cskw, which is placed in little book in low austria and we build headlamps for the automotive industry and I personally be a product manager. Software engineer and I build csd engines and raytracer mainly in clusters, so high performance, computing, stuff and yeah, and do it this for now 10 years now so yeah so nicholas.

D

Yeah, my name is dr smith, I'm senior devops engineer at verity.

D

Typically, my day board is breaking things on infrastructure side for the developers and afterwards fixing it again, but also I have a developer background, so I know a little bit about programming all this stuff, but mostly working in the cloud and doing all the fun stuff, but I literally mostly know in my days I doing blockchain and kubernetes, so all the hot topics in one company um but yeah- that's mostly my from my side.

D

So I will pass over to roon, probably.

A

Yeah, hey there, um I'm I work for a norwegian company. We do some stuff, I've been working with infrastructure for the past 10 years or so, and I have a back history with michael friedrich on the icing. My team.

B

I'm trying to I'm working on defining.

A

Infrastructure as code using uh github as a repository.

A

I'm the crazy one who knows everyone and tries to make like an interesting and entertaining one hour of things to try out, and I think today, mikey has prepared something around raycast. Do you want to go ahead and share a screen.

C

Yeah, michael, so hopefully you see it now. So just the upcoming blog post. It's now draft, but I will push it out, maybe today or tomorrow so um today, I'll like to show you a raycast which is a pretty new project and it's mainly a productivity tool.

C

So if you know macos spotlight like this, where you can type your applications and you can open it and you can search your email and whatsoever or whatnot and raycast is nothing else, but this spotlight on steroids and came it across last week and I've played around a little bit with it. And I really like it because it's now it's really flexible and it can do a lot of stuff which can save you a lot of time during the day and yeah.

C

So, let's start so the first thing it's only available for macos right now so windows and linux is, as I know, planned, but not out yet and with the two guys named thomas paul mann and peter nicole. This, hopefully I spelled right and the simple thing is: let's demo, how raycast works so the normal hotkey is all space and like spotlight. You see an application where you can type some stuff and the cool thing.

C

Is it's a really extendable system so right now it has a lot of built-in extensions so like, for example, you can now use hacker news and you can read hacker news without leaving this application, so the cool thing about race is you don't have to have a lot of contact switches, so you can use the same application really quickly and get your information like. For example, you want to search uh hacker news or like, for example, which is already cool. Is you can also type in?

C

You want to see your github pull request and then you see an overview of the pull requests and then you can select the line you want and then you can press command k and you can use actions based on your selection. So you can open the details. You can open your pull grids in the browser and whatnot and it's really really flexible.

C

So it's pretty productivity tool and it's pretty nice to have such tool, because during the day I have to go to a lot of tools like jira or gitlab or github and whatnot, and it's really cool to have a single place where I can manage all my stuff and I can go deeper into the websites if I want, but not I'm not forced to do so, and so it's really cool to have cheese, wheat and all the cool stuff.

C

It's already on board, so change locks and whatnot and it's a really good productivity tool. So- and this is also the main focus of this whole project- to build an ecosystem around this, so just stepping through so, let's demo how you can set up this, because if you start a recast for the first time, it will ask you as an assistant which extensions you want to start, and you have mostly to configure most of this extension.

C

But if you already have done it, you can go to preferences and just click. Your extension of choice press enable it mostly there's always login flow for most stuff. So you can click login on your system, then you can sign in with your github and I've already signed up. So it's not the big deal for me and now I'm back in the application and I'm logged in and with this step you can see that there is a lot of commands behind it and then you can just use your.

C

I want to see my notifications and what one, what it's really easy to do, but in the beginning it could be a little.

C

You need some time to set it up correctly and but you have, if you have it set up correctly, then it's really really powerful tool and I really enjoyed it for the last couple of days and played around with it and also a nice thing behind it. Is it can script commands? So you have to differentiate between two things.

C

There is, there are extensions, so the extensions are able to use the the list view stuff so that you can see this list view embedded with a nice view, and there are also script commands which are there for doing simple tasks which you do daily and you don't want to do it go to the command line and press press command, so you can make little shortcuts to make your life easier and but the the limitation of another script command is simply it can just print out what to print without.

C

So you don't get the fancy list, views or any sub command from this stuff, but it's it's really powerful to do so and you can use bash script nodejs. You can use python, you can use the most known uh runtimes and it will just work and it's really easy to extend and one word to the extension system.

C

uh It's a recast. It's a no know if I know it correctly, it's now in beta, so it's not officially released in in in in the production version, and so there is right now, no sdk, no api for extension building. So this cool 100 integration is only possible with the extension system, which should start around uh start of the next year roughly, but there will be an announcement on the on on the website and you can join the developers program to get an email if this is available.

C

So that's one thing you have to know so if you start it and you see the cool extensions, you have to know that you can only build script, commands right now, which is a kind of limitation, but it makes ray cost much.

C

It is efficient as it is right now and it will just get better over time and so I've already built, for example, my github to-do list, which is already up in in the scripts repo from something, and I will can just print out my to-do's on gitlab.com.

C

But it takes me a lot of time. I don't have to go to the website if I just want to check what I have to do today and, as you can see, it's just printing out basically out and you can, for example, copy this to your your clipboard or something like that or open another another application. If you wanted.

C

So it's just a fancy wrapper around cli tools. Yeah. This was the main purpose of this stuff and if you like, you can build. If you want a little script, that we can load into a recap and do something interesting with it.

C

D

We could implement a simple command like the docker hub search, so that you can directly search on docker hub. So for that you need to use only the cli, so you can use the press search to search.

C

All the images.

D

C

This should work if you stop my doctor system.

A

C

Yeah should should definitely work um just to show you. There is already a repository from the wake house guys you can find a lot of scripts, so they can use your if you can search for something like already gmail open gmail in the browser, for example, but you can see also the the gitlab example or some of the examples.

C

So let's just try it out. I already prepared my private private repository where I can start, for example, twitter.

C

So so, like twitter.com just go here, press enter open twitter.com, it's not not the fanciest application, but it it will show you how this thing works. So first, you have to know that script today in raycast has to be copied manually.

C

So you can't just clone the repo and just use the script out of the box, so you have to tell um raycast where he where it can find uh the script, and you have also to know that you don't get a recursive directory search, so the script must be in the directory, which should tear weight cards so that they can find it.

C

So the easiest way is: go to preferences, go to script, commands and then press this add more directory search for the directory where the script is already running and if you develop it just check the author reload. It make sure that if you change your script command, it will automatically reload your commands.

C

So you don't have to go into the preferences and press reload every time and I've already told raycast to search through this mini repository script, and so, let's just copy one of these commands and let's call it there is no special naming behind it.

C

Docker search and as you can already see, it's just a normal dashboard, it could be python, it could be noches and the the matchy keywords are behind comments. So you have some of the keywords which you have to type. So if you go to the descriptor repository, you can see whole explanation of which fields you have to fill out which are optional and the most common one is of course the title is the same huge option in recast the order of the ul.

C

If you like the description, what it's doing and the the logo, I can you can search so normally you have your images folder and put your image there and then it's one a really important thing: it's the mode and for modes. You have to know that you have um four options.

C

You can have the full output of the of the gli tool, so you just use the what you print to ftd out and just print it in the right card, and then you have this compact one, which is a post message like uh thing, then this silent, okay, that's the thing which I use for opengmail.com or twitter.com, because I just want to open something and it it doesn't matter.

C

If what says doubt and inline is also a cool option that you can, when you type it, and you see it in line the response and with the inline mode, you also get the refresh time. So you can tell raycast hey uh update this every 10 minutes, so it is opened and it will update the state of this command. So it just so it's one of the most important modes to know the package name is just a group name and the schema version is schema one.

C

So then you see, I have just a simple open command that can open anything like in finder or in this case, what to search so nicholas, won't book a search correctly.

D

We should do also other stuff. It's indiana.

A

C

What should what should we type.

A

We could do a simple dns resolution. The problem is passing dick as an output is not fun.

C

With specials it bashes, the best ship is only good when you have just to print out the doubt. If you have to read it back, I mostly recommend using python or maybe.

A

We could use nslookup if it's is that a white label hey, but if.

E

You're doing dns the demo will not work, so maybe we should do something different.

A

You should don't tell uh chris about this.

A

Used to belgium, you.

D

Should use instead of this, you can use doc. Docker is written in rust. Mostly it's in you um yeah.

A

Yeah, that's true and I think there's a homebrew tab or avoidable for that.

A

But I didn't try it yet it has colors if I record it correctly, um but I think the the most simple thing is to use nslookup gitlab.com. Maybe oh, that prints a long answer.

C

It doesn't matter because we can just show demonstrate if the.

A

Answer is longer.

C

What happens so.

A

Oh, we could use um dick with the short answer, so dick gitlab.com plus short, this only prints the ip address minus.

C

A

Yeah plus plus some parts.

A

Short and plus short only prints like the value and not the header and response, and whatever this one, yeah, okay, yep, it's something you need to remember: it's uncommon that it's a plus.

C

I call it nslookup and just leave the whatsapp logo for now, but if it works correctly, we can now use any lookup press enter and it was a little pop-up uh in the bottom. So we just for now switch to full mode if I type it correctly. Full output, so just look at the full output of the of the command.

C

So just in this lookup press enter- and here you can see just the output of the sdr, so easiest.

A

Yeah next try, after the short, uh do four is a chord, a.

A

Watcher type, uh a big capital letter four four times a of like ipv6.

C

Yeah, ah nothing news.

A

Probably we should rename it to dick yay ipv6.

C

So, and if you have such short answer, you can also go to um compact mode or inline, so we can watch the value. I've never tried the inline myself, which was just in the beginning example. So.

C

You can see the the result on the bottom, so you don't have to leave and that's also cool thing behind the raycast, so it remember your state. So if you leave it, you can switch okay. Normally it works.

C

D

I know no past an argument so that I can enter that lab.

A

Yeah arguments passing would be interesting.

C

Yeah, there is also a possibility for that, so you can enter up to three values, so you can have three arguments. I never tried it myself. I just know that it works, but let's find it out. So, let's type in a text placeholder from city located just for the example and the full cup.

C

No, let's go. How can I enter an argument.

C

Why doesn't ticket one optional parameters, icon.

D

C

D

In the open afterwards they're using um in the command the dollar, with one it's a batch substitution, so it will be the first special argument. So.

C

D

C

The thing is, it has to be visible here and I'm not quite sure where it don't ask for it.

A

Could you remain the ns look up to dick? Meanwhile,.

A

And the docker search is hard to something else. um Oh that's not.

C

Quite sure, because I know that it's working so let's check title search, silent web search, prediction argument.

D

You change the silent mode.

C

Yeah, maybe the reason.

C

Yeah then, you can type here: okay, the the silent model is required or one of the most which is required to do so so um text. Placeholder- and you say I have to use dollar.

D

I think, let's first state only the dollar and for breakfast we will see if we need to do some red radiation metric magic about that.

C

So dollar the one is.

D

The one is the first argument when you are calling the script so search doctor search and passing the first argument. It will be placed in value.

C

Yeah, but to accident bash dollar one, I'm not the regular bash user, though.

D

It's one, so if you're writing it in brackets, it means you're doing a bash substitution so that you can pass the value and um doing some magic was that the percent 20 means probably that they were replacing something yeah, but echo is mean only printing out. It's like printf.

C

Yeah, yes, so I just want to make sure it works. So, theoretically, this should work.

D

Yeah and put the digitlap in the placeholder in the uh line 12 so.

D

C

So I know it can use up to three arguments and you can make it also optional.

C

And, as you can see, it's really easy to extend something with that.

C

And if you want to get a little bit more fancy, you can use python. For example, if you want to read it back, it's much easier to write in python or locate, and you can see this code.

E

I'm thinking about doing one with liverando.

C

Cancer subscription, I couldn't really write it down.

C

I cancelled stuff.

D

So we could use, uh do you know vetera form pizza provider.

E

D

You can order a pizza yeah, you can order a domino pizza, so we can use raycast to trigger this terraform provider, mostly creating terraform file and then.

E

But anyway, so this one is totally out. There is now a domino pizza provider for crossplanar, so you can get.

A

Would it be possible to open up an ssh session or something around it and take logs.

A

So like cluster shuttle in in railcast.

D

That's not sure I don't know that.

A

Yeah, oh just like the the possibility to inspect something remote like remember, inspect a running container, inspect pod locks inspect something you do in your operations and you have no idea how to access it. But you could like abstract it away in a certain way.

E

So doing a cat remotely, why not I'm not sure about tailing unlock if this works.

C

D

Big transfer problem needs to actually uh finish right, so yeah.

C

You have just the the repeat mechanism, but yeah, it's I'm quite sure it has to end, but I never tested it if it runs it's just printing out after the application were before, but I I guess it has just take to exit that display. That's there.

A

Okay, but I put, for example, fetcher ci pipeline job output. This should be possible if the pipeline finished this should be possible or just like an easy, iteration and saying hey. Please give me the current running pipeline for this project and we color some output or something around this. I don't know if you have done this already with your plugin um I've.

C

I've I've filled the script, the the the thing you have to notice uh when you use the descript commands um that there is a guideline that you have to market this template. If you have to do something because, as you know, if you want to access the gitlab api, you have to provide an and personal access token. So uh there is right now, no mechanism which can handle this for you, so you have to update the scripts.

C

So that's what I mentioned at the beginning that you have to copy the scripts together as a as far as you know, they're planning to do something to do this for you, but right now it's a manual task.

C

So, typically, when you have this template dot pi, it requires don't find this file and I've done this with python so that I can use this uh gitlab to do gitlab, issue list and metric quest list. So it's more likely what you see in gitlab's I like that corner and I've just used a config file. Typically, it's um you have to make sure uh or make sure it's designed that the script is self-contained, so that everything you have to know is in the script.

C

It's mostly built around the concept that you have multiple files and but it's possible, as you can see, I've just used this. You can copy the files to your script. Folder fill in the temp, uh the the config file, with your personal access token and you're good to go so and then you can use anything you like so, for example, to do is just a simple, a simple request to gitlab I've just built a simple glass in the helper. I just used the normal v4 api.

C

I just cut back the the chase and then just formatted it with strings. So it's pretty easy to do so, and shell scripts for me is good for, for something I want to just print out or just to execute.

C

You can do anything with dash crypto, mostly, but I'm more a python guy. So for me, it's much easier to work with python and it's the same example just make sure that you're shipping in the beginning, and also that you have, if you can use here as I know, really anything, but you have to make sure that the raycast parameter at the front and also that is that your rap time is installed. So the thing is bash is portable on mac.

C

So you don't have to remember anything if you use dock and you have no docker installed yeah, you have to install docker before daily business, but there is no real limitation and it's really really awesome because for me the whole thing with with the seducing or hacking is reading. It's really awesome because it's just to type into commands and they can just visit the stuff and then don't have to leave something which is really awesome. So.

A

Just provide you with like interacting with hacker news, so you can post something as well. No.

C

That's what's just only for the extension which is not out now for third parties, okay, so this is in the beginning of next year, so maybe so.

A

Yeah and I've also read on the um on the website that for now it's like an open beta or something around this and they might go the way of the the basic functionality is free, and then there is some extended power pack of workflows, which alfred also has um where you need to pay for something around this. So there should be a sustainable business model around it.

C

Definitely yeah, but it's cool because uh years ago I've tried all for it, but that was never the biggest channel for it and I come across raycraft's greatcast and I really liked it because it's really powerful and it's super easy to extend so script. As you seen, it's not the big deal, and I I just can't wait for for the for the sdk the api to build complete integrations to recast, because you can build a lot of stuff with it and right now you can, for example, you can.

C

As far as you know, you can create issues.

C

You can fill out the form and it works pretty well so.

D

Yeah, this is the same it I use it for jira almost now my working flow, but you can't use it right now to edit tickets or something like that or what I was seeing. So, for example, I have an open t-shirt right now open. I can read only the ticket issue and all the stuff and the um rest, but when I want to identify it, I need to open the browser, but for this case it's really fine.

D

For me, it's enough mostly because when someone is asking me something I need only to look in, the ticket can read all this stuff and then okay, okay, probably we go that way. All that way.

D

um I found it. Okay, that I can't edit directly into that or the screw. You can also create your um issues directly out of railcars yeah. That's also good.

C

You can also filter stuff, so you can can make some combo boxes to switch so and oh this, this whole uh action thing is also really cool, so it seems it has forms and and and lists, but it seems to have to be able to integrate a lot of stuff for this, as nicholas said, um simple tasks or overview tasks yeah, and it's really nice to don't leave this application and it's just one click and one keystroke to to get there.

C

So it's just the beginning. Definitely.

A

B

A

And I will definitely share it with our teams at gitlab, um especially the extension, and we probably should be working together on improving that when, when we use it on a daily basis, of course, um one thing about alfred and that I've told you this before somewhere else. um I've been a heavy user of alfred, mostly because it's easier to lock the screen on mac os, which is kind of not so easy.

A

As far as I know- um and I use emojis a lot and you can use gitlab or tweetdeck, where you just type the column and then something pops up and you type something or slack. um But if you want to just go ahead and use twitter, twitter, web or twitter whatever or linkedin, even you always need to search emojis, and I found the power pack of a plugin for alfred, which provides that. But it's not up to date.

A

So so the latest and the greatest whatever emoji pack- um and this is probably the workflow I've- been using the most I'm not using uh java and and idiom anymore. So previous previous job, um so the workflow is gone and the alfred ecosystem is nice. But the problem is, there is no.

A

There are different, sdks or different libraries for golang for php and for python things around, but it's super hard to discover extensions and also discover extensions which work with the current version. um So it's I've tried to create one in python. I failed. I've tried to create one and goal and I failed, um and after a while I said I have no, I have no interest um writing a simple best script and doing some ops tasks. Your assistant main tasks, uh which which make your current workflows or life easier, is super super amazing.

A

um But if you want to go deeper and say hey, I want to use the python library for gitlab, for example, to create a rest api, so you're, okay, but you need to provide the output in a specific format, and this is yeah. It doesn't feel so so intuitive and recast looks way more.

A

I would say: developer focused, making it easier, building an ecosystem and probably also using a more modern technology around this. So.

C

You can you can use definitely the lock screen command, so this is already available in in in recap, and I'm I really. I think there is an script uh about the motives yeah, I'm not quite sure, but I think there is one in the script repo already.

D

There's already one you can search and copy uh emojis with retriever.

A

How does this work.

D

Let's, let's test it out so.

C

Yeah so we give the descript commands repository github.com, waycast subsequent, and then you have to go search your uh thing. I would get this immediately.

D

Now go back go back to the readme, because the reason is really awesome in the script commands. No, not in this re read me going into the chromats directory.

C

Oh the command right, okay,.

D

Yeah and there's the list of all the stuff and there's a special for emojis. Those.

C

Search emojis and search and copy first related.

A

I I think our social media team needs that.

C

So I go with search so then you are in this motion directory and as I told you, uh it's a self-contained script most. It's designed that is a self-contained script, so you in the minimum you just have to copy the script.

D

Yeah, you need to have more, but.

C

Do you need more normally.

A

You have to use.

C

A

Okay, let's see can can I just like clone the entire repository and simulate that or just use.

C

It note that for most things it doesn't work, it's mostly some manual picking if you it could work so it so this one should work. Definitely this would.

A

Be an interesting feature request like if I use all my status age. um It also asks me from time to time to update and get pull and do whatever, and then it pulls and it's automatically there, and this could be a way to to update your installation. If you just like get pull and then you get the newest version, we.

D

Should make this command for that.

C

Yeah, you can do a script command itself and also you have to make sure that this works really well for for um for things we don't have to configure, but for the gitlab stuff we have to provide an api token. This is not that easy. So, with the environment,.

A

C

It it's blocking it for security reasons. uh We will introduce something like that, but they try to make sure that it's it's it's secure by default and not unsecured by default.

A

That is true, because.

C

You can do a lot of yeah, not too good stuff with it. So I understand it. It makes it a little bit more tedious now, but I guess it's just a matter of weeks or months that this problem will go away and.

A

I already, I think I've read something about querying the wallet or the osx keychain integration, somehow so that you can like provide access for this specific command or extension, then say hey. I want to use my gitlab token, and this is stored in my keychain, and only this application can access this and mac os allows it, but I'm not sure if that's already implemented I've. I think I've read it somewhere on the website.

A

C

Think they make sure that it's a pretty solid basis for the full production, and I would guess that if you have to provide some api tokens, something like that, that scripting is not the recommended way. So I think it's. The extension way is much better because they use normally overflow.

C

So it's pretty easy to do so, so I'm not quite sure how they will handle this script, but the extension api seems to work with javascript or typescript, or anything like that. So it shouldn't be that hard to write something.

A

Oh one, one code also automate certain image: conversion, things and screenshot renaming and other tasks like tasks with uh image, magic and so on. Yeah, because some uh sometimes for block force. We often use unsplash and you get like a free uh cc, license picture, which has like uh ultra ultra hd resolution, which has like three megabytes. It's too much to surf on the block and what I know what I'm normally using is either like the ui, which is a bit like I don't know which, which menu to click.

A

um But there is the possibility, when you install email image magic that you. I think I've documented that somewhere in our handbook um that you can use, convert as a command um to automatically resize an image or something like that.

A

Let's see if I have that.

A

Match resize yeah. I think I've documented that since I'm working at gitlab and documenting everything um even more than before, resizing images.

A

Oh, yes, I'm sending you a link um so.

C

Should we uh use this example.

A

C

A

Yeah, the emotion first emotion.

C

And try to resize something the simple way you can clone it. You can download the zip file. I just copy paste it it's much easier to place it in my my repo, so I just have to make sure that paste it into the.

C

C

I've just make sure that it's in the directory, which is which I've told wake up before and I have checked, also the auto mechanisms. So the only thing I have to make sure now is that it's executable, just probably in yoshi. So now I will theoretically recast. What's the name of it, search and copy first search and copy first, so search for, I know nicholas like tada, so hopefully it's working.

C

Yeah copied emoji and now I'll set it down. Emoji.

D

So but the drawer was tried lauren.

A

Can you search for fox.

A

No, just I want to see the fox emoji, emoji fox or whatever you what's, the name.

C

Of this emoji, I'm not sure, do you know.

D

But is it pastable.

C

Yeah, it's that was basically so.

A

Actually, maybe it's using a different library.

C

Fox yeah emoji, I'm not that regular emoji user. So let's try the full one. It's interesting that this could take me so long.

A

It's using a web api, so I I I have an extension which is, I think, a binary copy of all the emojis out there, and this is like a local cache then, and I think this one does a web look up.

C

Yeah experimental dns problem is experimental: okay, okay! So, let's check out this. Oh, I.

A

Promise I agree.

C

C

I've never used this library before or july yeah. Then you get to spec. So it's it's, not the problem of recast. It's the problem of this emoji library, which is used.

A

Here maybe maybe we can reverse engineer that um another another emoji.

A

C

C

Yeah it seems that, but I'm not quite sure if this is the right answer.

C

The slider is really strange.

C

D

Probably you inside right now I may well.

C

Yeah, it looks like this.

D

There were central credit cards.

C

ah There are multiple ones, that's the reason why it's called the first first related.

C

But you can do it if you like, you just have to use the right library christmas tree.

C

It's called christmas tree red hog.

C

Harp love heart.

C

Should we try something else.

C

I have one thing I forgot to mention: if you like to don't type anything out, you have the possibility to make sure alias comments. Oh that's true. I can.

A

C

Gl and then I can.

A

ah Yeah this this is interesting because I think, with alfred, we always like for using two two or three things to type make. It short, so you don't forget anything and the cool thing is.

C

You can also record a hotkey, so you can make a global hotkey for it, and I understand it correctly.

C

So if you have something you do really regularly, you can map it on your keyboard, which is pretty nice. So I've never touched this previous stuff.

D

So what is the difference between a global hotkey and the alias.

C

Just a shortcut on your keyboard, the the alias is just for typing, I cannot type gl and then it's just.

D

A short I break it literally because I use for jira active, spruce, I use j and it breaks.

C

Something for the issue.

A

Oh, I I can see that there is a speed test uh command. This is interesting system activity is also interesting, because when the macbook is using lots of resources, um you either inspect the activity, monitor and see that either zoom or docker slack is taking all the resources. um This would be interesting.

C

You can check the bitcoin price if you like,.

A

Yeah countdown to christmas, create countdown. Oh, it's like pop-ups developer, youtube, ssh key you can. You can check the weather.

C

Know they were.

A

Encode and decode base64.

A

B

A

C

Yeah, which kind of you ready.

A

Pretty fire chase and pretty prince the jason currently in the clipboard.

A

Because I normally use a um a chrome extension to pre-define all the trace and output. I get.

C

This should be script which you can, which you can.

A

um There is p a 11 y, which is p accessibility. Probably um you can run a web access. Accessibility tool specify the ui you can use.

C

Productos or outdated listing so pretty cool.

A

Who is is technically useless because many many details are not accessible anymore, with gdpr, at least in europe, so you won't get much detail out of who is bro? Oh, you can run blue commands directly.

C

Okay, yeah, it's just a script repo because I don't know you have a lot of commands just like already existing extensions, so just check out this system thing.

A

Do you know if it's possible to show a png or an image?

A

C

Would guess it doesn't work right now.

A

Asking for a friend who uses.

A

C

But you can join the the reika slack channel with austin.

A

I think I'm in there, um but I'm.

D

And what's like, did I miss slightly there.

A

um It should be either on the website or I got an email from from the founder um after downloading.

C

Anywhere, I'm not question, though, so.

D

I it should be that it's a public directly, so oh.

C

Yeah connects like on the bottom of the website.

A

Yeah, you need to kind of get an invite to something like that.

A

Oh, you can totally specific system items and you can, for example, list the largest cpu process.

A

I can see that uh caleb's staffer stuff.

B

A

I don't know um he's a really a really good person love it.

C

He do he do a lot of uh script.

A

And obviously it's easy. It's easy um so like seeing seeing not only like the raycast name in the author column. Put more people like, um where is the michael eichner guy.

A

Can you can you search for mike liagna, calling calling michael eichner, oh gmail as well interesting, gmail and.

C

The gitlab command.

D

Today I tried the uh slick stuff, but uh I was too late a little bit because you need to set an oauth token to get access to the circle api, which was a chromebook stack api to set the status.

C

Yeah, okay, you.

D

Now the most important is text to rgb r, so.

E

A

An alpha value.

D

So that you can also see the transparency.

A

You know the most the most important one is url encode and decode trust me, especially when you want to use angel brackets in markdown.

B

A

Want to know that, meanwhile I know it's uh ampersand gt or lt and semicolon um like less than or greater than, but still it took me like five years to remember this exact encode um cool. If.

C

You can you can copy the lorem ipsum to your clipboard.

A

Hey you can search in figma. This is cool for our designers.

C

So recaps can do a lot they're, the only thing with which is not that nice right now is this thing with that. You have to swim, link it or to do this manually, so it would be really nice if there is an minimal packet management or something like that behind it, and I also wish to do this for the extension system so that you can bundle the stuff.

A

And it would probably make sense to maybe have a library or just some some interfaces and a version system, and then you say hey, I want to like pin the version or have the dependency on this extension. Maybe, um but only this version, something like that um and if I, if I do, an uh update action or an update, raycast event.

A

However, that looks um I could just like it does the magic for me and I'm up to date and when it detects that something would break it. Doesn't it doesn't update anything.

C

And the cool thing is uh the scripting. You can easily share with your colleagues with the rear viewer kit, repo, because then you can define what is in your git repository because yeah that you have secrets problem but anything which doesn't need any secret. You can just easily share your kit, because then you can just pull your your changes and you're fine.

A

Can you uh can you like open the script comma, the commands again and scroll to browsing? You can screen screenshot a website.

C

Screenshot the website yeah.

A

A chrome feature it's using page rest um and saves it to the desktop. I don't know what uh what exactly is going there screenshot.

C

The website paper- never, oh, maybe it is using um puppeteer, something like that.

C

Then the next unsecured stuff just check this before.

C

A

uh Mark, like not talking about rikka step in a live stream.

A

Wait, uh I I'm sending you the link and soon so you can open it up in the live.

A

Stream, where is the chat window yeah.

C

C

Searching this one yeah.

A

So everyone needs to follow thomas.

C

Yeah, definitely it's a really nice guy.

C

Just to like it.

A

He's living in london and was previously working at facebook, interesting.

C

Just based on this and there's some images behind it, no no images behind it.

C

Oh, it's also by caleb.

C

C

So what is it called? Screenshot screenshot the website. uh Let's get me gitlab.com.

A

Yeah, just go I'll go for it, I don't know if it works, but.

C

It seems not to work pages command requires.

C

C

A

Npm, oh so you're getting like everything in the system now.

C

Yeah, so I have to to to wipe it.

A

Afterwards, how big is your node modules directory? Oh, it's just two gigabytes! Oh.

C

C

So failed now we know that it used property in the background.

A

C

But I'm not quite sure why this is working, but I think we have not that much time to to fix puppeteer. But uh puppeteer is already deprecated or old-school.

A

Can you can you scroll up? There was in an e-access error above code, excess and cardio. So there is a permission problem creating this in user, lib user, local lib for some reason.

C

A

It again, maybe you cannot install it with dash dash global, yet.

C

But normally the artful has worked so.

A

Is this uh thing avoid it or that the software is this available in homebrew as well.

C

I didn't know it's just available in notepad or in with him, so I'm not quite sure why I think there's a script behind it which is triggered after the install, because normally you don't have two things here.

B

C

Oh, it wants to download a chromium version. This seems to fail, for whatever reason they could download, uh probably a normal pub you can use puppeteer to to um it's. Just an uh puppet is uh built by the chromekey, so you can use it to to use chrome headless or something like that, but I'm quite sure that puppeteer is not not developed anymore, because there is playwright or something like that, which is the successor of of puppeteer, which are made to work with h5.

A

I don't know, is there or does this rapist support, something like uh a boot up sequence where you can like when you start it? It starts up some docker containers which are needed for your workflows, so you don't have them have to restart them any. Every time like you could use this entire page rest thing in a docker container, not populating your system. It just the container goes up when you start your mac os um and then you could like instrument everything with like a bridge docker container or something like that.

A

This would be a nice idea or.

C

You can use stucco runner.

D

C

D

Up every time, a new process of a container, but you can do the same way like you're running a container in background mode, with detach and using a docker exit to start a separate process in the container and then call them pages on that.

A

I was thinking in that direction, so you don't have to wait. So I know a container startup is quite fast, but if the container does for some reason some installation or whatever is needed, um you could just start it when the app is started like the boot up sequence and then whatever you do, and you want to screenshot the website, it just does docker exec and presents you an svg or something like that.

A

But still it's interesting to know that this is possible, um even if it might break for some reason. Yeah.

C

So I I would guess anything you can do with the with the shell should be more or less doable with recast.

A

And I think the great thing is that everything is in a single contained repository where you can contribute. um So it's you.

C

Can you can create your own ones so.

A

Yeah, well, I think that the beauty is in like contributing together and improving it together, because otherwise you spread it around the marketplace and everyone has their own repository, and this is like.

A

So I personally have the problem with a huge marketplace, and I have no no idea what to start what what is good. I need a recommendation system somehow and I also need like quality, and this is something I personally didn't like about mario's and the singer, and all everything which is plugins.

A

Everyone can write some, but the quality is really hard to figure out. So there is no like you need to try five different plugins after the sixth version works. Maybe, and the quality is not so good, then you start writing your own. I think this is not so efficient in in comparison to having a central maintained repository with the script commands yeah and I'm.

C

I'm I hope that the extension system, uh so the the api will also provide ways, because if they use javascript or something like that, it should be easy portable to do other wastes as well and also scripting could be easy, and then you can use the whole ecosystem behind it. We like npx or something like that, and then it should get easier.

C

So they don't have to reinvent the wheel.

A

And it would be interesting if you could package raycast in a docker contained environment as a whole and and it just does the magic around this so like a syscall or a file. Io thing is just mapped and it doesn't matter because I I don't know is, can you get python on windows? Currently yeah you can manually install it? Is it? Are you ready to bring chocolate?

A

C

I use it for years, so python 2- I can, I don't know, but I use python in windows since I get 3.3 and now we have 3.8.

A

A different example: php works.

C

But the thing is.

D

When they, when they.

C

Use javascript the base layer for the for the sdk. uh It could be a good starting point. Yes, the the npm mass import problems are there, but you can use young, for example, to let it out.

C

Maybe it's a good starting point, because I would love to see this in in windows as well, because I at work, I have to use windows a lot so and if you have shell scripts and all this kind of stuff, it could get hard to port. This.

C

But yes, it depends on the system.

C

The hope that they have some kind of uh extension hub plans behind it so that you can upload your extensions like with code or whatever system you like, so that it's easy to search for extensions, like you mentioned, with all fixed that it's hard to find something.

A

Yes would be, I don't know if a rating system is the best way to do it, but it would. It would need some like tech, it's an officially approved, plug-in or or extension or is it like? Is it any good like the typical question, because um when I kind of when I buy a product or when I want to use a product, um the research storyline should shouldn't take too long, and especially when the website says well, we have everything for you and afterwards you figure out oh yeah.

A

Actually I need to like search a lot and create my own extensions and integrate everything myself. um This is this. Should this shouldn't happen, I would say because otherwise the users might just say yeah, I'm not interested, I'm just closing and uninstalling it again. um So really, I really like the the way that many workflows are already integrated and you don't need to care about it or extensions.

C

But for, for example like for gitlab it having this to, do is really helpful for me now, but to have this more integrated like the github extension right now would be much easier because creating tickets here with my code here. So it's it's just a command line in knights in a nice format, and you can call your commands pretty easy though, and I like the hackness reader, it's really.

A

Awesome yeah, I know I know someone. Some people also will love that.

A

Okay, do we have anything else which could be interesting? um You can get your download link on the website and you can join.

C

If you click the the recast, I can you can just click join record community just like.

A

Channel, uh okay, yeah, I I already did that um there is a blog yeah. The the twitter account is very active. I've seen um so like subscribing for updates. Yes, um it's really easy.

A

And what else do we have on the website? They do have a developer program and also manifesto like explaining what the next steps are and where they want to go. I really do like that. So the expectation is.

A

I have it opened, you have, it also opened if you click on manifesto in the in the in the menu, um so they respect your privacy and they also like building a business. um So you don't fall into the trap of saying hey. This is free forever, so you know that this is something which needs to get funded and sponsored.

A

Yeah the thing is, we were at native code, it's also nice to know, especially because there won't be any how to say that you won't use a framework which is made to work on every system, and then you get only half of the the working things most often times, but it's purely like optimized for mac os and maybe in the future, for windows and other distributions or linux linux, I don't know, should be possible, probably.

C

Anywhere the website they mentioned that the deploy they want to port it to linux and windows as well. But I would guess it's not next view.

A

Okay, there is the developer program mentions the the api and access, and I bet you are already in there.

C

I've already joined the developer programming, of course, because I want to build the the gitlab stuff so that I can impact usually.

A

That's amazing, so I don't need to do anything and I'm just saying hey, michael, please do it.

D

I have a new feature request, so.

A

Everyone on the team says we need that um we, we kind of um so I can.

A

um I can make you addicted to a gingerbread from nuremberg um should be on your way somehow. um But I have no idea about the the maybe mid-order thing which is currently going on. Sometimes it works within four days. Sometimes it takes three weeks um so yeah and before the gingerbread reaches you, we will have 10 different feature: requests for the gitlab uh extension.

C

One is to other two other drift uh trashy kitty.

A

Yeah you could, you could actually like try to figure out whether austriansupermarket.com has a rest api um or something around that, and then you just like uh you need yeah. First off, you need to write a monitoring uh job for prometheus, which monitors that russia kxc um current status or how many packages do you have in store or in your kitchen.

A

um I think I think I have half a kilo left in a in a package um and once you get that you can query that you need to see the nice grafana dashboard within raycast and when, when the threshold is going well, that sounds a little strange when the threshold is going uh below a certain number. You just have the amazon echo button thing which auto orders and you get get a new package.

A

There would be a cool business idea.

A

Okay, yeah: it's it's getting a little late.

A

Okay, yeah, I would, I would love that everyone who's watching or maybe watching this later on, um is, uh will be trying out uh downloading a recast joining. Maybe even the trinity developer program um creating their own extensions script commands um and we are trying out, especially the gitlab extension and, let's work, let's work together on it um and improving it from our daily business.

A

I would say, and thanks thanks michael for creating this uh thorough presentation and demo, um the blog post will be out in the coming days on everyonecontribute.com and like you will always find it on twitter, and we can also link it in the in the video description then later on um with that, I would say, bye, bye,.

A

And see you next week.