Haxor News: Hacker News in the terminal

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Post by nothrowaways » Sat, Jan 01, 2022, 3:28 PM UTC

Haxor News: Hacker News in the terminal
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Re: Haxor News: Hacker News in the terminal

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Post by BrianOnHN » Sat, Jan 01, 2022, 4:13 PM UTC

I used to question alternative CLI ui/ux.

Not anymore:

> Coworker who sees me looking at something in a browser: "Glad you're not busy; I need you to do this, this, this..."

> Coworker who sees me staring intently at a command prompt: Backs away, slowly...

Well played.

Re: Haxor News: Hacker News in the terminal

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Post by acqbu » Sat, Jan 01, 2022, 4:17 PM UTC

This is neat!

Re: Haxor News: Hacker News in the terminal

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Post by netizen-936824 » Sat, Jan 01, 2022, 4:18 PM UTC

BrianOnHN wrote: post #2

I used to question alternative CLI ui/ux. Not anymore: > Coworker who sees me looking at something in a browser: "Glad you're not busy; I need you to do this, this, this..." > Coworker who sees me staring intently at a command prompt: Backs away, slowly... Well played.

Always be running emerge --sync and emerge --update --verbose in some window

Noted

Re: Haxor News: Hacker News in the terminal

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Post by pkdpic » Sat, Jan 01, 2022, 4:23 PM UTC

BrianOnHN wrote: post #2

I used to question alternative CLI ui/ux. Not anymore: > Coworker who sees me looking at something in a browser: "Glad you're not busy; I need you to do this, this, this..." > Coworker who sees me staring intently at a command prompt: Backs away, slowly... Well played.

That is such a good point. Applies to spouses and toddlers too for the work from home crowd.

Re: Haxor News: Hacker News in the terminal

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Post by jacquesm » Sat, Jan 01, 2022, 4:26 PM UTC

pkdpic wrote: post #5

BrianOnHN wrote: post #2

I used to question alternative CLI ui/ux. Not anymore: > Coworker who sees me looking at something in a browser: "Glad you're not busy; I need you to do this, this, this..." > Coworker who sees me staring intently at a command prompt: Backs away, slowly... Well played.

That is such a good point. Applies to spouses and toddlers too for the work from home crowd.

Toddlers that know the difference between browsers and command prompts should be enlisted.

Re: Haxor News: Hacker News in the terminal

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Post by nvr219 » Sat, Jan 01, 2022, 5:01 PM UTC

BrianOnHN wrote: post #2

I used to question alternative CLI ui/ux. Not anymore: > Coworker who sees me looking at something in a browser: "Glad you're not busy; I need you to do this, this, this..." > Coworker who sees me staring intently at a command prompt: Backs away, slowly... Well played.

Boss keys[1] should be standard for every website. The March Madness[2] one for example. There are some good ones developed for Reddit to look like Outlook[3], shell [4], etc.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boss_key

[2] https://www.ncaa.com/march-madness-live/boss

[3] http://pcottle.github.io/MSOutlookit//

[4] https://redditshell.com/

Re: Haxor News: Hacker News in the terminal

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Post by grogenaut » Sat, Jan 01, 2022, 5:19 PM UTC

BrianOnHN wrote: post #2

I used to question alternative CLI ui/ux. Not anymore: > Coworker who sees me looking at something in a browser: "Glad you're not busy; I need you to do this, this, this..." > Coworker who sees me staring intently at a command prompt: Backs away, slowly... Well played.

With 5 monitors one always has code and another terminals/slack. The third always twitch or baseball. No one can tell.

I'll leave games open and an idea full screen on the Central monitor. What am I doing? Even I don't know

Re: Haxor News: Hacker News in the terminal

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Post by nichochar » Sat, Jan 01, 2022, 5:34 PM UTC

This is awesome! Actually, building a HN CLI client is my goto "Todo list app" exercise when I learn new languages.

Here are my versions for elixir: https://github.com/nichochar/CLHN and golang https://github.com/nichochar/clhn-go

(they are much more lightweight than the presented one, but work well)

Re: Haxor News: Hacker News in the terminal

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Post by nlh » Sat, Jan 01, 2022, 5:36 PM UTC

This is excellent!

And also - I think that building HN utilities / clients is like the modern nerd FizzBuzz (in a good way). Is it strictly necessary? No, but it’s a great intellectual exercise, it’s something many of us have thought about, and because there’s a common API underlying, it gives folks a chance to learn about lots of creative ways to attack the same fundamental problem space.

Keep it up everyone!