dustinblackman

dustinblackman is an indie developer who concentrates on minimalist, command-line tools that slip quietly into professional workflows. The catalogue is small but purposeful: the flagship utility, oatmeal, turns any terminal into a keyboard-driven chat client for large language models. By wrapping local engines such as Ollama or remote APIs in a lightweight TUI, oatmeal lets DevOps teams, researchers and technical writers converse with Llama, Mistral or CodeLlama without leaving Vim, Neovim, Emacs or VS Code. The tool keeps context, threads and code blocks in a side pane, so users can iterate on shell commands, refactor snippets or draft documentation while their editor stays open in the background. Typical use cases include generating Git commit messages, querying internal knowledge bases, converting natural-language requirements into Terraform, or simply offloading quick Q&A when GUI chat services are blocked by corporate policy. Because the program is written in Go and distributed as a single self-updating binary, it installs in seconds on Windows, macOS or Linux and respects proxy settings, SSO tokens and air-gapped environments. oatmeal is the first public release under the dustinblackman signature, yet it already integrates with shell pipelines and clipboard managers, hinting that future titles will follow the same philosophy of unobtrusive, keyboard-centric productivity. The publisher’s software is available for free on get.nero.com, where downloads are delivered through trusted Windows package sources such as winget, always pull the latest build, and can be queued for batch installation alongside other utilities.