Viddy: A modern watch command. Time machine and pager etc.

Hi, I&#x27;m owner of the project. I am honored to be featured on HackerNews.<p>I&#x27;ve been busy and haven&#x27;t been very active, but I&#x27;m trying to resume maintenance. If you have any requests, please mention them in GitHub Issues.

watch supports shell aliases if you put the following in your bashrc:<p><pre><code> alias watch=&#x27;watch &#x27; </code></pre> You probably want to do the same for sudo.<p><pre><code> alias [-p] [name[=value] ...] [...] A trailing space in value causes the next word to be checked for alias substitution when the alias is expanded.</code></pre>

What is that logo supposed to be?<p>Looks like a golang gopher getting eye drops while being injected with syringes.

This is really neat. Reminds me of `lnav` which is a really awesome way to tail a logfile.

Useful, installed.<p>I&#x27;m a bit annoyed at the trend of not having man pages though.

This is lovely - pleasing to the eyes and nice features such as time machine<p>I see its in nixpkgs - think I&#x27;ll alias it to watch right now

I&#x27;d suggest logging to sqlite to provide later replays and speed estimations at keypoints. It might be nice to also add some cascading signature of the timestamps for tamper evidence (ex: merkle tree)<p>Usecase: storing timestamped proof of execution, automating metrics history<p>User story: &quot;after feature X got implemented, deployment became twice as slow as we can see from the viddy logs&quot;.

I am eternally grateful for the Clockwork Orange reference.

You can do the diff output with watch by using the -d option.<p><pre><code> watch -d &lt;command&gt; </code></pre> The rollback feature seems useful.