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by Zetaphor 55 days ago
I've got Opus crunching on it now, will update when I have it finished and published

Edit:

https://github.com/Zetaphor/whatcable-linux

Running on my Fedora KDE machine right now. Also includes a CLI so you could wrap your own widget

I still need to figure out publishing, doing this in between work meetings.

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This is so cool that we can port useful stuff like this in minutes, thanks for sharing!

I packaged it for Arch Linux AUR: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/whatcable-linux

I do not use KDE and wanted just command-line version of it without any Qt dependencies, so I've burned some tokens and produced just that:

https://github.com/vzaliva/whatcable-linux-cli

Sorry, I'm late to the party but there's no rust port yet, so ..

https://crates.io/crates/whatcable

Thanks to the previous implementers/clauders.. I don't take any credits.

I have Claude working on a port to Intercal. Says it may take awhile, I'll post updates when they're available.
> Swift --(claude)--> Plasmoid --(claude)--> CLI --(claude)--> Rust-Port --(claude)--> Intercal

Is this the human centipede of programming?

Yes, as long as there are humans reviewing and quality-gating the outputs at every stage.

Otherwise, it's just a very long exoprosthetic digestive tract.

Seems so.

--> GnomeShell/js --(claude)

https://github.com/abrauchli/usbee - it uses the rust port so I feel it's a legit addition to the centipede ;)

Interesting. GPT-5.5 implementation was simpler with Python and a QML code.
Python was a choice offered during the ideation phase but I chose to go with the C++ implementation