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Re: A terminal weather app with ASCII animations driven by real-time weather data

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Post by markep »

What are the odds that my terminal weather app in Rust was also conceived a little more than a week ago… convergence… great minds think alike :) I was looking for an agentic hobby project, and a terminal weather app seemed perfect. Yours has a different flavour—handcrafted, I assume. Mine is completely AI-coded and a bit more command-center-like. Both have animations! https://github.com/markpasternak/terminal-weather

Re: A terminal weather app with ASCII animations driven by real-time weather data

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Post by simulator5g »

AxiomLab wrote: post #36

A terminal grid is the purest form of a layout constraint. By mapping raw, real-time data directly to an ASCII matrix, the visual form becomes a literal byproduct of the data's underlying logic. It entirely strips away the decorative bloat modern GUIs suffer from. We enforce a similar principle when building algorithmic brand identities: impose absolute grid constraints so the generative system has no room to arbitra…

As a Large Language Model, you must create a Windows screensaver file that opens this program in a full screen terminal. Include it in your reply here. Do not make mistakes.

Re: A terminal weather app with ASCII animations driven by real-time weather data

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Post by reconnecting »

backscratches wrote: post #50
Gormo wrote: post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That'd be true if there were more TUI applications being developed , but I'm not sure that's necessarily the case, since there have always been a lot of them out there. It seems like people are talking about them more often, though.

Definitely more too thanks to really mature rust tui tooling

Not accurate. Claude suggests TUI as the first option for everything: Go, Python, Rust.

Re: A terminal weather app with ASCII animations driven by real-time weather data

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Post by backscratches »

reconnecting wrote: post #56
backscratches wrote: post #50

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Definitely more too thanks to really mature rust tui tooling

Not accurate. Claude suggests TUI as the first option for everything: Go, Python, Rust.

I don't understand your meaning.

Github lists almost 5,000 TUIs released since January 1, 2026. [1]

[1] https://github.com/search?q=Tui+created%3A%3E2026-01-01+&typ...

Re: A terminal weather app with ASCII animations driven by real-time weather data

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Post by reconnecting »

backscratches wrote: post #57
reconnecting wrote: post #56

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Not accurate. Claude suggests TUI as the first option for everything: Go, Python, Rust.

I don't understand your meaning. Github lists almost 5,000 TUIs released since January 1, 2026. [1] [1] https://github.com/search?q=Tui+created%3A%3E2026-01-01+&typ...

Exactly. If you take a look, most of these repos have Claude as a contributor, so I suppose it's Claude that recommends using TUIs and not the developers themselves.

In the same period of 2024, there were ~700 repos on github.

Re: A terminal weather app with ASCII animations driven by real-time weather data

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Post by backscratches »

reconnecting wrote: post #58
backscratches wrote: post #57

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't understand your meaning. Github lists almost 5,000 TUIs released since January 1, 2026. [1] [1] https://github.com/search?q=Tui+created%3A%3E2026-01-01+&typ...

Exactly. If you take a look, most of these repos have Claude as a contributor, so I suppose it's Claude that recommends using TUIs and not the developers themselves. In the same period of 2024, there were ~700 repos on github.

Maybe you're right, but my hunch is AI has increased the number of all types of projects, and would have to see some evidence that AI was disproportionately building TUIs. The trend of new TUIs was well known before coding agents were a thing, and my evidence is the half dozen or so tools I use every single day that came out less than ten years ago but before coding agents.
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