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WTF – A personal information dashboard for your terminal

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Re: WTF – A personal information dashboard for your terminal

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Post by tamrix »

hultner wrote: post #139
atarian wrote: post #138

Why are so many of these command-line tools/dashboards written in Go?

I haven't used Go much but I've gotten the impression that tooling is very good, it's easy to create a self-contained executable and startup time is low. All this while the language itself aims for simplicity and doesn't include a plethora of features rarely used or needed creating an almost python-like simplicity.

I can't be the only one. I just don't see a lack of features being a feature.

You can easily statically link most languages by passing switches to the linker.

Python like simplicity is a far stretch. Golang basically just C with co routines and some of the annoying syntax cleaned up.

Re: WTF – A personal information dashboard for your terminal

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Post by Terretta »

carokann wrote: post #53

Neat. For people looking at alternatives for configurable dashboards i suggest sampler[0]. It has a weird license but free for personal use. You can report any output of a terminal command with a custom time rate. E.g. you can SSH and pipe HTOP of a remote system, query your local DB and do a timeseries etc. all in one place. [0]: https://github.com/sqshq/sampler

Well, neat, but why would sampler call a series of vertical bars sparklines?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sparkline

In 2006, the term sparkline itself was introduced by Edward Tufte for "small, high resolution graphics embedded [inline] in a context of words, numbers, images". Tufte described sparklines as "data-intense, design-simple, word-sized graphics".

See the Usage section for an example.

Re: WTF – A personal information dashboard for your terminal

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Post by TheSpiceIsLife »

nvrspyx wrote: post #48
enedil wrote: post #37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That's because Safari disregards this option, as it is hostile towards users.

The site does mess up inertial scrolling on iOS Safari though.

Internal scrolling works fine here.

Re: WTF – A personal information dashboard for your terminal

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Post by stjohnswarts »

Kaiyou wrote: post #72

My first impression was that it looks cool, but than I tried to think of a use case and failed. It still looks very cool, though. If I want to look anything up I just look it up, no need for something to run somewhere to occasionally glance on.

You're probably not the typical user. This comes in handy for someone who always has a bunch of data inflow like a sysadmin, devops, tools person, etc. Or just an overworked programmer.

Re: WTF – A personal information dashboard for your terminal

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Post by lamby »

hultner wrote: post #145
shay_ker wrote: post #77

Honestly curious - why do people live mostly in their terminal? Is it a productivity thing?

Everything can be done with the keyboard and is generally scriptable, leading to high productivity but also superior ergonomics is a big part for me. My wrist joint have a tendency to crack loudly (not sure if this is the correct English term), which feels unpleasant and have been a driving reason for me personally to avoid the mouse unless absolutely necessary. Additionally to basically living in my terminal I use v…

> Everything can be done with the keyboard

This is it for me, really. Whilst it makes it me two or three orders of magnitude slower when I have to "drive" someone else's machine, not having to switch to a mouse/trackpad really just smoothes things over and prevents jumping me outside of my "zone".

Re: WTF – A personal information dashboard for your terminal

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Post by Kaiyou »

stjohnswarts wrote: post #165
Kaiyou wrote: post #72

My first impression was that it looks cool, but than I tried to think of a use case and failed. It still looks very cool, though. If I want to look anything up I just look it up, no need for something to run somewhere to occasionally glance on.

You're probably not the typical user. This comes in handy for someone who always has a bunch of data inflow like a sysadmin, devops, tools person, etc. Or just an overworked programmer.

No, sorry, I was unclear. I do see the need for a dashboard (at work), just not for monitoring the things this one offers. And for my private workstation, which I was thinking of when posting before, I don't see the need.
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