@PhillHarmonix @a_Shell_iOS pip install -U --pre yt-dlp[default] yt-dlp-apple-webkit-jsi

A-Shell is currently available for beta-testing, with two big Python-related changes: - Python moves from version 3.11 to 3.13 - adds support for scipy, sciait-learn, seaborn… https://t.co/A951MnS1j4

@tkanthh It’s the stock iOS keyboard, the toolbar above it is part of @a_Shell_iOS, which is such a Swiss Army knife for me

By the way, we're also present on other social networks: a-shell-ios on Bluesky.

And now I have to get back to everyone who asked for h.265 encoding, to whom I replied: "I can't do it, libx265 is GPL", and update the reply with: "actually I did it, using libkvazaar, which is BSD-licensed" (thanks, guys). Encode your videos with: "-c:v libkvazaar -tag:v hvc1".

Two big news today: - a-Shell has reached one million installs (cumulated for both apps: 539k for a-Shell, 461k for a-Shell mini) - we have a new version on the AppStore: 1.15.9 What's new: h.265 encoding for ffmpeg and HEIF decoding for ImageMagick, updated bc, plus bug fixes.

The changes also mean that ripgrep is now compatible with the Wasm3 engine. You'll have to reinstall it (pkg install rg), but once it's done, it's blazingly *fast*.

Sorry for this backward incompatibility, I'm trying really hard to avoid them but this one was just unavoidable. It reverts a bad decision I made 4 years ago. On the plus side, a-Shell is now immune to the year 2038 bug.

Version 1.15.7 is out on the AppStore. It fixes issues with the WebAssembly interpreters: how they scan directories, and how they set modification/acces dates. The bad news is there's a backward incompatibility: if you installed zip or xz, you'll have to reinstall them.

Wasm3 was incorporated in a-Shell recently, resulting in a 10x speedup for some commands (xz, unzip). It's an awesome piece of code, and the best WebAssembly interpreter I've tried.

The fix in version 1.15.3 was to always use “(as a copy)” on iOS 18, which was safer, but had also other issues (doesn’t work with large files, doesn’t give metadata). The new fix gives users the freedom to choose… with a risk. I hope the bug will be fixed in iOS 18.1.

Another update to a-Shell, v. 1.15.6. We’re still dealing with an iOS 18 bug where “Get File” sometimes deletes the file (!). In this new version, “Get File” works as before, which means it *can* delete the file. If it happens, there’s the option (as a copy), which is immune.

Version 1.15.3 is also out for a-Shell mini (since version 1.15.4 fixes an issue that only happens in a-Shell, there’s no need to make this release for a-Shell mini)

Two quick updates to a-Shell: - version 1.15.3 fixes an issue with Shortcuts and iOS 18. - version 1.15.4 fixes an issue with TeX and clang that was introduced with XCode 16. The same updates are still “waiting for review” for a-Shell mini.

If a WebAssembly file has the suffix .wasm3, then a-Shell will use the wasm3 engine, otherwise (no suffix or .wasm suffix) it will use Apple's engine. The biggest change is with the xz command: xz.wasm3 is 10x faster.

Version 1.15.2 is out on the AppStore. It improves a lot of things with WebAssembly execution, and adds a second WebAssembly interpreter, wasm3 (@wasm3_engine ). It is faster than Apple's engine on some commands, slower on other commands, so the choice is up to the user.

iPhoneでweb page からコピったデータを加工するのに a-shell mini のvim が思うより便利だった。computer 好きな人は暇な時に unix 系の知識を身につけておくと、思わぬ時に役立つのでおすすめ。

a-Shell users are a tiny minority among iOS users. Scheme users are also a tiny minority. But for those who belong to both minorities, here comes scheme-for-iOS, available in a-Shell with “pkg install scheme-s7”. It’s a direct port of S7: https://t.co/Re2cu3SZu3

Nice review of a-Shell (from 8 months ago, I’m glad I fixed some of the bugs he shows in the meantime…):

Version 1.15.0 is out on the AppStore (both apps). It has an updated ffmpeg (v 7.0.0), an updated clang (v 18.1.5) aaaand: the ability to run “in Extension” Shortcuts that access application data (such as bookmarks or Python packages). Plus tons of bug fixes.