Adding 1Password Secrets to Flox Environments
Having access to 1Password secrets in your Flox environments puts the world at your fingertips, but making it work everywhere you go takes a few simple tricks.
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Pair with Claude in Your Shell Using Anthropic + Flox
With Flox's new pre-built environment, you can pass prompts to Anthropic's Claude models and get on-point results right within your terminal.
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bpftrace: A Scriptable Magnifying Glass with X-ray Vision for Linux
bpftrace hooks into the eBPF runtime built into the Linux kernel to give you unparalleled insight into what's happening on your machine.
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Totally Transform your Terminal Workflow with broot and Flox
broot has it all: Fast, intuitive file navigation, search, and management capabilities; built-in support for cp, rm, and other common commands; plus the ability to integrate with your Git workflow
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Get Perfectly Good Terminal Multiplexing with Byobu and Flox
Byobu is a terminal tool you can use to split your screen, run multiple sessions, and reconnect to sessions, even after you log out or or disconnect. I’d call it a terminal multiplexer, but it isn’t, quite, because it stands on the shoulders of giants.
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No Runtime Required: Get Containers on macOS and Windows with Colima and Flox
Not everyone wants to install a resource-intensive container runtime on their local system, especially on desktop platforms like macOS and Windows.
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Turbocharge Your Productivity with Crispy Doom and Flox
Just in time for Halloween: Get a prebuilt Flox environment that runs anywhere for playing the shareware version of Doom. Or any of the Doom add-ons available in the Flox Catalog. Or any old-school DOS-based game!
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Auto Environment Activation with Direnv + Flox
With Flox, the set of packages you're using can change depending on the directory you are working in. Using direnv and Flox, environments can autoactivate so you can effortlessly navigate the different parts of your stack.
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Free Up Just Enough Storage with Diskonaut and Flox
Diskonaut is a terminal-based tool for visualizing disk usage as an interactive treemap, making it easier to identify large files and folders. Flox makes it easy to get and run.
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Get Warm and Fuzzy Search in Your Shell with fzf and Flox
Need to find just the right file—fast? Fzf filters search results dynamically as you type, enabling super-fast incremental search. It's a cinch to install and use in a workflow with Flox.
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Get Secure GitHub CLI Auth You Can Take with You Anywhere
The GitHub CLI gives you a way to perform most GitHub-related tasks in your terminal. Get it with a prebuilt Flox environment wired for transparent auth with GitHub.
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Get GitHub in Your Terminal, No Browser Required, with gh-dash and Flox
gh-dash is a visual, intuitive terminal-based tool you can use to manage GitHub pull requests, issues, and code reviews.
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Studying Projects with Gource and Flox
Using Gource, you can get a unique sense for your project's history. It gives you a way to visualizes your Git repository's history as an animated tree of commits, contributors, and file changes.
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Create Colorful Stylish Splashy Terminal Apps with gum and Flox
If you author shell scripts or create software that runs in a terminal, gum should probably be in your toolkit, especially if you’re building stuff for other people. You want what you build to look and feel good, right?
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Psst: Want a Pretty + Polished + Powerful SQL IDE for Your Terminal?
Harlequin not only has an extremely pretty terminal UI, it’s got an oh-so-pretty terminal UX, too, with point-and-click mouse support, command-completion capabilities, and other goodies.
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Using Flox and jless to Automate All Kinds of Tasks
Jless is a big time-saver when you need to work with JSON and jq, and is just a generally helpful tool. Plus, you can build jless-powered workflows into Flox environments to automate all kinds of tasks.
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Get a Journal in Your Terminal with jrnl and Flox
jrnl is a plain-text command-line journaling application that allows you to store multiple journals, tag entries, and more.
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Using Jupyter Notebooks with Flox
Using remote environments from FloxHub, you can start a Jupyter Notebook server on bare metal...without installing anything.
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Get Kubernetes on Your Laptop with kind and Flox
Kind is a lifesaver if or when you need to emulate a production Kubernetes environment on your laptop. And with Flox, you can create and share a preconfigured kind environment that runs ... anywhere.
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Building and Debugging AWS Workflows Locally with Flox, LocalStack, and Colima
Do your teams need a reproducible, collaborative way to manage AWS secrets and authenticate with AWS services across disparate systems and environments? Fear not! Flox has got them covered.
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Creating a Reproducible BI and Analytics Stack That Just Works Anywhere with Flox
Flox makes it simple to build and ship a runtime environment for data work. Build locally, on your own system, with direct access to local resources. When you're ready to ship, just push to GitHub or FloxHub, or a container registry.
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Create and Manage VMs in Your Terminal with nEMU and Flox
Think of nEMU as kind of like a TUI complement to virt-manager, just cooler and awesomer because you can run it in your favorite terminal emulator!
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Level Up Your Nix Experience with This Trio of Tasty Tools
Whether you are using Nix or Flox, tools like nix-du, nix-tree, and nix-top are so useful that you’re probably going to want to have them close at hand.
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LLMs in Your Project with Ollama + Flox
Ollama is an amazing way to work with LLMs. Installing it isn't exactly hard...but adding it to your project's stack and sharing it with colleagues? That can be tricky unless you use Flox.
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Supercharge Your Shell with OpenAI + Flox
Adding the power of ChatGPT to your shell can make you more efficient, and it's easy with a Flox remote environment.
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Run Containers Easily with Podman + Flox
You can run containers using Podman and Flox without installiing any heavy desktop applications or starting daemons.
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Train Your Own Mechanical Turk with repomix and Flox
Described as a tool for working with large language models, repomix is useful for anyone working with AI or machine learning platforms that rely on structured text inputs for analysis or processing.
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Step into Christmases Past with Flox and Random Access Memories
What does console emulation have to do with building, testing, and shipping software? The trick lies in creating a partially turn-key emulation environment that Just Works across OSs and CPU architectures. For Flox, this is its superpower!
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Ad Hoc Filesharing Made Easy with Sharing and Flox
Ever find yourself shelled into a remote server and you just want to grab a few files without all the scp-hopping? The sharing package is built for you.
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Transform SSH Host Management with sshs and Flox
sshs is a clean, simple TUI tool that lets you visually scroll through your SSH connections—identifying, selecting and easily establishing just the connection you want.
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Get a Portable Turn-Key RAG Stack with Verba and Flox
Use Flox, Weaviate, Ollama, and Verba to create a portable, reproducible RAG stack that Just Works—without VMs or containers.
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Jump Around! From Directory to Directory with zoxide and Flox
zoxide is a fuzzy-matching directory-jumping tool that styles itself as a “smarter” replacement for cd. It also pairs nicely with another featured package: fzf.
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