[danso]

I interpreted the premise of the article as weaning people off of GUI with everyday trivial tasks that can be done via CLI. I myself do almost all my work from the CLI, but it was this blog post [0], specifically the open, pbpaste, and screenshot commands, that got me into dabbling with my shell, before I understood the power and convenience of shell scripting.

I try to get novices interested in the shell via youtube-dl, which is very useful and has no good GUI counterpart. However, for a lot of people, downloading copies of video are just not an everyday task like checking the weather or dictionary.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10143143

[weaksauce]

There are a few worthy webextensions that can do the basics of what youtube-do does. Enough to only need the command line for batch stuff or more advanced conversions.