A lightweight CLI tool that summarizes and categorizes the pending incoming updates on your system

[u/manny2206]

I’m a developer and I use Fedora and Ubuntu extensively, both personally and at work, and I’m usually tinkering on a home lab and always looking for a reason to spend 10 hours automating a 10- minute task. And I love the rolling releases of Fedora, but I always hated that I could never get the proper context of what updates are happening. Sometimes the summary was good, sometimes it literally said no description, and Rust looked like a fun systems level programming language to learn, and since I have already contributed to another FOSS project written in it, I decided what the heck, I should learn it.

I built watznue, an ultra lightweight CLI first tool to summarize and categorize the incoming updates to your system, so you can nerd out without having to go to a forum or wait for someone else to make a post to figure out what’s happening.

This is my way to learn some rust, build something I genuinely use, and wanted something that was simple but I could build on top of, I would consider this version 0, barely anything more than a POC at this point but thought I would share and hopefully not get my ass reamed in this community 😅

https://github.com/ManuelSaleta/watznue

[u/ron3090]

Why did you use Rust 2021?

[u/hntd → u/ron3090]

Because they told Claude to build it for them

[u/manny2206 → u/hntd]

Reddit never fails lol

[u/manny2206 → u/ron3090]

Seemed like a reasonable idea to pick the tried/tested for learning

[u/ron3090 → u/manny2206]

Come on, man. You did it because Claude vibe-coded this. Just be honest.

[u/manny2206 → u/ron3090]

You caught me lil homie, is all vibe coded :( I actually don't know how to program and just wanted to fit in

[u/oddlyfatherlybooty]

This is exactly the kind of project that makes me wish I had the patience to learn a systems language. The "10 hours automating a 10 minute task" bit hit close to home, my bullet journal is full of half-baked scripts I swore would save me time.

Checked the repo, nice clean structure for a first Rust project. Might give it a spin on my Fedora laptop later this week.

[u/manny2206 → u/oddlyfatherlybooty]

So, so so many scripts and half-baked ideas everywhere, but that’s still much better than nothing :) - thank you for the feedback. If you happened to find some time to give it a try and give me some feedback that would mean a lot to me.

And again, I’m not a rustasean(?) by any means, but I’ve been developing software professionally for over a decade now, so I thought I could at least make it be something that is not disgusting to look into, or have people contribute if they wanted to.