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yaronn01

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About yaronn01

https://twitter.com/YaronNaveh

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    Comment #14578477

    There are some valid use cases here, I hope this will not affect users of wopr ( https://github.com/yaronn/wopr ).

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    Comment #11745626

    curling the markup is not for realtime. sometimes you can get away with curling in a loop with some sleep, and depending on the latency / scale you will get the same effect. howeve…

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    Comment #11745309

    so try https://github.com/yaronn/wopr

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    Comment #11496294

    To visualize weather in the terminal you can also use: $> a=$(curl -Ls "bit.ly/1OuRPDJ"); curl --data "$a" "tty.zone?cols=${COLUMNS}" (via https://github.com/yaronn/wopr )

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    Comment #10496752

    That's a shortcut for the wopr page

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    Comment #10495277

    one use case is when ssh-ing machines you can see visual reports rather than text and numbers (think cpu metrics or app specific).

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    Comment #10494623

    Another example is US weather map: $> a=$(curl -Ls "bit.ly/1OuRPDJ"); curl --data "$a" "tty.zone?cols=${COLUMNS}"

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    Comment #10494593

    IMO JSON is less readable for this kind of document. XML is more explicit (at the cost of being chatty) but it's actually good for markup. For example nesting is easier to visually…

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    Comment #10494455

    this uses xterm, so it's more accessible to most users than the other alternatives you mentioned. also note wopr is not just about the graphs (like https://github.com/yaronn/blesse…

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    Comment #10494339

    XML is a standard format for markup (e.g. HTML). When XML is used where it shouldn't (object serialization) it adds complexity. Here it signals that creating a report is as simple …

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    Comment #10494208

    Hi everyone, I am the author. Feel free to ask me anything or come up with suggestions!

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    Comment #10089974

    Shutdownify github page now leads to 404. You would think they should know better than that. Stay classy, S9Y.

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    Comment #10066456

    True, thought in some parts of the world it's not sabbath anymore

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    Show HN: US Weather Map in the Terminal

    $> a=$(curl -Ls "bit.ly/1OuRPDJ"); curl --data "$a" "tty.zone?cols=${COLUMNS}"

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    Comment #9923124

    For me the main thing is not how to sleep after a day of coding but how to stop the day of coding from becoming a night of coding. It's really tempting to slide into the night when…

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    Show HN: Simple markup for rich terminal reports

    I have built WOPR - a simple markup for rich terminal reports, presentations and infographics You can try it: $> curl tty.zone/1\?cols=$((COLUMNS)) (if you experience firewall issu…

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    Comment #9278600

    blessed is an amazing engineering work! I hoped the name blessed-contrib to show the project roots. termui is built upon termbox-go in a similar way that blessed-contrib builds on …

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    Comment #9276879

    HN discussion about the Node.JS implementation (blessed-contrib) a couple of months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8888089

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    Comment #8894295

    in the node-drawille dependency: https://github.com/madbence/node-drawille

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    Comment #8894006

    I was asking myself the same yesterday... I think I have memories from an old platform I used a few years ago that had a "gauge". Maybe Delphi?