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guscoon Ask HN: What are you working on? (November 2026)

Still building the file manager I've always wanted: https://intestinate.com/gusco/

Added an audio player this past month for all fellow file hoarders out there.

Also, you can now choose if you want Gusco to live in your terminal or run as a native-yet-texty app.

Was pleasantly surprised how well turning a Bubble Tea TUI app into a GUI-ish bundle works with Gio UI.

guscoon The history of development of Norton Commander (2011)

Norton Commander set me on the path to building Gusco: https://intestinate.com/gusco/

NC tribute theme included.

Give it a shot if you wish Midnight Commander felt closer to Total Commander.

I remember when Total Commander (originally Windows Commander) arrived and immediately made NC on Windows obsolete.

Symantec really knew how to trash a good product.

While I haven't had to deal with Windows professionally for a very long time, I still miss the feel of Total Commander and DOS NC.

guscoon Show HN: Two-panel file manager where everything else is a plugin

My file manager does MTP: https://intestinate.com/gusco/

Install with homebrew to get the needed aft-mtp-cli dependency.

Xverb does indeed look nice!

guscoon Ask HN: What are you working on? (September 2026)

https://intestinate.com/gusco/

TUI file manager with Bitwarden/SFTP/S3 support written in go.

Runs pretty much anywhere.

Current feature in the works is built-in audio player.

As someone who still likes to purchase and organize music in files and directories, I couldn't resist the itch to code a worthy competitor to Cubic Player :)

guscoon Ask HN: What are you working on?

Just added a new theme to my TUI file manager Gusco https://gitlab.com/intestinate/gusco

Here are a few things I'm curious about: Is direct manipulation of files and the file system becoming abstract for the younger generation?

Are Windows/Mac users no longer using file managers?

Is File Explorer/Finder good enough, even for a fairly technical crowd?

guscoon Ask HN: What are you working on? (August 2026)

Very pleased with https://intestinate.com/gusco/ My orthodox file manager which now doubles as a Bitwarden client.

Feedback has been good so far, next up is proper vim modes/bindings.