Why choose 'gauge' over the widely used 'progress bar'? Keep up the good work, it looks sleek.
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?
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#52This is pretty neat. I think it's telling that after 50 years, and all the work on GUI's, this is still a good idea.
> I think it's telling that after 50 years, and all the work on GUI's, this is still a good idea.
While definitely neat, I'm not that sure that this is actually a good idea.
I agree that it is telling that this project exists and excites, but I'm not sure what about. Maybe about the poor state of remote GUIs. Generally I consider ncurses (and other non-line oriented terminal stuff) to be an ugly hack. For example a better solution might be if you could easily run an adhoc webapp on a server (or other remote host) and have it tunneled (over ssh) straight to your local browser without needing to manually fidget with tunneling and ports and urls and whatnot. But that would require some scaffolding to make it happen and I don't really see the community moving to that direction.
Re: Show HN: Building terminal dashboards using ASCII/ANSI art and JavaScript
#53Where does it call that Braille font you are talking about?
Re: Show HN: Building terminal dashboards using ASCII/ANSI art and JavaScript
#54Where does it call that Braille font you are talking about?
in the node-drawille dependency:
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#55This is great. I want to find a reason to use this. I have been doing some retro looking visualizations on an oscilloscope lately. I need to learn more about programming vectors to sound frequencies.
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#56This if fantastic!