Plock: Use a local LLM from anywhere in your OS
After seeing a cool demo of a hack on Twitter, I built a cross platform version of it that works well and uses streaming. From anywhere on Mac and Linux, trigger Ollama and optionally feed it your clipboard. I built it yesterday and it's already very useful to me. I'm pretty excited about it and wanted to share!
Plock: Use a local LLM from anywhere in your OS launched on January 21, 2024 with 6 votes, #2,120 of 4,437 launches that month and more than 50% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 2 years on.
What it does
From anywhere you can type, query and stream the output of any script (e.g. an LLM) - jasonjmcghee/plock
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