ZSH Commit message generator

2026-05-04T00:00:00Z

One of the main things i use AI (Claude) for is for shellscripts.

One of the most tedious tasks is to write git commit messages. So i wrote a little zsh function i can use within a git repository, that reads all the changes and suggest to you, a commit message. The script make use of Gum to make it all a bit more glamorous.

function commit() {
  commitMessage="$*"

  if gum confirm "Execute git add . ?" --default=No; then
    git add .
  else
    selected=$({ git diff --name-only; git ls-files --others --exclude-standard; } | sort -u | gum choose --no-limit --header "Select files to stage:")
    if [ -n "$selected" ]; then
      echo "$selected" | xargs git add
    fi
  fi

  if git diff --cached --quiet; then
    gum style --foreground 196 "Nothing staged. Aborting."
    return 1
  fi

  if [ "$commitMessage" = "" ]; then
    gum style --border rounded --padding "1 2" --margin "1 0" \
      "$(git diff --cached --stat)"

    diff_input=$(echo "=== Summary ===" && git diff --cached --stat && \
                 echo -e "\n=== Diff (truncated if large) ===" && \
                 git diff --cached | head -c 50000)

    commitMessage=$(echo "$diff_input" | gum spin --spinner dot \
      --title "Generating commit message..." -- \
      claude -p "Write a single-line commit message for this diff. Output ONLY the message, no quotes, no explanation, no markdown. Max 80 characters, prefix chore etc if valid.")

    gum style --foreground 212 --bold "Generated message:"
    gum style --foreground 86 --italic "$commitMessage"

    if gum confirm "Use this commit message?"; then
      git commit -m "$commitMessage"
      gum style --foreground 46 "✓ Committed successfully!"
    else
      commitMessage=$(gum input --placeholder "Enter commit message..." --value "$commitMessage")
      git commit -m "$commitMessage"
      gum style --foreground 46 "✓ Committed successfully!"
    fi
    return
  fi

  eval "git commit -a -m '${commitMessage}'"
  gum style --foreground 46 "✓ Committed successfully!"
}

mymarks.net - Bookmark generator

2026-05-01T00:00:00Z

At some point in 2025 I got tired of fighting with other people's bookmarking tools and just built my own.

I'd tried Pinboard, Pocket, Raindrop - you name it — they all do the job to some degree, but none of them felt quite right. And when you've been a PHP developer since the mid-90s, there's a point where "I could just build this myself" and it became a fun sunday afternoon project.

That project is mymarks.net.

What It Is

Save links, tag them, find them again later. No algorithm deciding what's relevant. No ads. No tracking. Just your bookmarks, organised the way you want them.

It's hosted in the EU, and your data stays there. That matters to me, and I figured it probably matters to others too.

Under the hood it runs on Symfony with a clean frontend built in TailwindCSS. Nothing exotic — just solid tools used well.

Adding Links Is Easy

The whole point of a bookmarking tool is that saving something should take two seconds, not interrupt your flow. There are three ways to do it:

Firefox extension — grab it from Mozilla Add-ons
Chrome extension — available in the Chrome Web Store
Bookmarklet — for every other browser, one click setup

Why I Made It

Honestly? Mostly because I could, and because I wanted something that worked the way I think. But it turned out to be useful enough that I opened it up for anyone to use.

If you're looking for a no-nonsense bookmarking tool that respects your data and doesn't try to be a social network — give it a try.

Hasse Ramlev Wilson

ZSH Commit message generator

mymarks.net - Bookmark generator

What It Is

Adding Links Is Easy

Why I Made It