TTE: Terminal Text Effects

Incredibly goofy, I like it. Especially the demo gifs on the page. Wonder how long until I see it be the default output for a CLI I'm using. Got surprised to see someone using lolcat in the wild before.

Re: TTE: Terminal Text Effects

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Post by PhilipRoman » Tue, May 28, 2024, 6:32 PM UTC

Great work, this will make a lovely splash screen for my tty-only machine.

Re: TTE: Terminal Text Effects

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Post by mickeyp » Tue, May 28, 2024, 6:34 PM UTC

In a similar vein in Emacs: M-x zone

Every time you run it, it triggers a random screen saver effect. Fun when it's on a timer and triggers so your work colleagues wonder wth is going on.

Re: TTE: Terminal Text Effects

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Post by behnamoh » Tue, May 28, 2024, 6:35 PM UTC

Next time someone donks Python for being incapable of building decent CLI tools, I'll burn their terminal using TTE.

I know Go has the crown for creating TUI apps, but Python isn't that awful. If the app doesn't need concurrency (like a terminal file manager [0] does), then Python is fine.

[0]: Yazzi (Rust) eats Ranger's (Python) lunch and dinner combined.

Re: TTE: Terminal Text Effects

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Post by benrutter » Tue, May 28, 2024, 6:40 PM UTC

I freaking love this library! It reminds me of a time that I don't even know happened when computers seemed like a scifi possibility come true. So happy to see it on the front page.

One of the coolest things is not just the ability to pipe cat outputs into it, but that it doubles up as a python library- next time you're making a throw away CLI with print outs and prompts, why not make it insanely jazzy?

Re: TTE: Terminal Text Effects

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Post by xoac » Tue, May 28, 2024, 6:44 PM UTC

Someone will add this to their javascript framework cli

Re: TTE: Terminal Text Effects

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Post by sciencesama » Tue, May 28, 2024, 6:46 PM UTC

Now we need this in esp32 !!