Terminal of the future

gm legends, happy Friday.

Today’s lineup: a tiny helper in your terminal that turns plain English into shell commands for your actual setup, a Mac menu bar switchboard that flips all the settings you poke every day into one click, and a global radio dial that pulls in live stations from random corners of the world while you grind through your inbox.

nlsh is a command line helper that turns plain language into shell commands that actually fit your system. It looks at your OS and shell, talks to whatever OpenAI-style backend you’ve wired up, and suggests one-liners tailored to your setup. It never runs anything on its own, you review and hit enter from the same prompt.

🔥 Our Take: If your flow is “try to remember the flags, give up, open a tab, copy a Stack Overflow answer,” this is the lighter lift. You stay in the terminal, get a sensible command for your machine, and still keep a human in the loop before anything dangerous happens.

fmerian kicked off a poll asking a simple question: if you write code with AI every day, which model are you actually picking. The options range from Sonnet 4.5 and Gemini 3 to GPT 5.2, Composer 1, Devstral 2 and a few China models, with Sonnet currently way ahead in the votes.

Replies are where it gets interesting: founders share what they run under the hood in tools like Tonkotsu, some people swear by Opus 4.5 even though it is not on the poll, others mention combos like Genie 2 plus Cubic for catching bugs, and Alina points out the boring reality that pricing and latency are shaping choices as much as raw capability.

If you’ve got a daily driver for coding, this is the thread to drop it in.

1Setter is a tiny macOS menu bar app that gives you one-click access to system settings you actually touch more than once a year. Toggle hidden files, tweak Dock behavior, flip common options and system tasks without spelunking through System Settings every time. You can also bundle actions into “modes” for things like meetings, focus, or gaming so your Mac snaps into place with a single click.

🔥 Our Take: Digging three menus deep just to flip the same handful of switches gets old fast. Parking those actions in the menu bar and letting you fire off a whole mode in one tap is exactly the kind of tiny quality-of-life tweak that quietly makes your Mac feel more like it’s set up for you, not for Apple’s defaults.

Roam FM turns your Mac menu bar into a tiny global radio dial. It streams live audio from over 40,000 stations across more than 200 countries, drops you into a random corner of the world, and pins the station on a 3D globe so you can see where those voices are coming from. By default it skips languages you already understand, so background sound actually feels foreign instead of the same local talk rerun.

🔥 Our Take: Remote work can feel like the same room, same soundtrack, forever. Letting some random station in Lima or Helsinki run while you work does a weirdly good job of breaking that loop. No playlists to curate, no algo to train, just whatever the world is broadcasting right now while you answer emails.