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Charm – Tools to make the command line glamorous

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Re: Charm – Tools to make the command line glamorous

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No idea if the tools are any good, but I absolutely love your branding. Opinionated, but perfect for the demographic.

I really liked their web design.

Side note on web design: uBlock blocked nothing. Usually when a page that looks like this comes up, I notice 10's to 100's of blocked requests.

On top of that, I disabled JS out of curiosity, and the site worked completely fine, sans expected failures (the only thing that stopped working was the little videos by the libraries)!

I think this is the first site with this level of "Design" (Which I usually hate, but they did a really good job of here here) where both of these things are true.

Re: Charm – Tools to make the command line glamorous

#27

Is this like, a framework for making command line apps, the way Spring is a framework for making web apps? Is Soft Serve for people who don't want to use GitHub?

> Is Soft Serve for people who don't want to use GitHub?

There's no web UI for soft serve, it's strictly a command line and config driven git repo manager. It's more of a direct comparison to look at gitolite (also a script/CLI driven repo manager).

If you're looking for a run your own web UI for git, check out gitea.

Re: Charm – Tools to make the command line glamorous

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post #16

No idea if the tools are any good, but I absolutely love your branding. Opinionated, but perfect for the demographic.

What is the demographic you think this is perfect for?

Just curious who this appeals to. It's not for me but that's OK I like opinionated things and recognised that that this is aimed at someone who probably will love it.

Re: Charm – Tools to make the command line glamorous

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I love Charm; doing `ssh git.charm.sh` is a lot of fun and really sparks the imagination about SSH apps. They also have usable solutions for auth and storage, which like, if you're thinking of writing something like this are the first things you'd start reaching for. They also work hard to enable you to run all your own services, so you don't rely on the Charm cloud for everything. Definitely a good model for future…

The dynamic intuitive interface provided by `ssh git.charm.sh` is a wonderful example of how text-based user interfaces do not need to be limited to REPL. I wonder if there is space for a new text-based web browser that adopts some of the design features showcased by Charm.

A Gemini client might benefit:

https://gemini.circumlunar.space/

Re: Charm – Tools to make the command line glamorous

#30
Damn. I am generally not a fan of command line applications, but these libraries look amazing. I'm definitely going to be checking out Bubble Tea.

And the design of everything is really great. It's unique but not outlandish. Just clean, simple, and cute. Really impressive stuff here.

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