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Re: The HTTP TTY

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Post by archimedespi » Mon, Sep 14, 2015, 3:12 PM UTC

rmetzler wrote: post #15

giancarlostoro wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

From my own experience: Sometimes installing an entire programming language just to use one tool is not worth the time I could possibly waste just trying to figure out how to get it working (assuming it works). Instead looking for alternatives built around tech that's already available in my system makes more sense to me, because of a higher chance of familiarity and the benefit of less time possibly wasted. There's…

> Sometimes installing an entire programming language just to use one tool is not worth the time I could possibly waste just trying to figure out how to get it working (assuming it works). That's why I would love to see more Docker containers and docker-compose.yaml files for tools shared on HN. A Docker container for this would be super simple to build using an official Ruby Docker container and it would save so muc…

I'm so sick of people wanting to package literally everything as a Docker container. That assumes:

- You're running Linux (or have access to a Linux box)

- The box running Linux is x86_64

- You have a modern kernel set up

- The box has a bunch of ram

- The box has a bunch of disk space (for installing Docker)

Docker forces you to have modern Intel-based hardware. Which excludes people with stuff like the Novena[1] or an old Thinkpad (because 32bits).

- [1]: https://www.crowdsupply.com/sutajio-kosagi/novena

Re: The HTTP TTY

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Post by xfalcox » Mon, Sep 14, 2015, 3:57 PM UTC

Very good!!!

Can I pre-setup a environment? To debug my service I need to go always to some address, set a referer header, disable SSL and set a cookie before starting. I would be awesome to save a state e continue from it everytime.

Re: The HTTP TTY

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Post by blacksmith_tb » Mon, Sep 14, 2015, 4:13 PM UTC

gear54rus wrote: post #6

Looks cool! Any non-ruby alternatives with similar features?

I like httpie a lot personally, but I have also used Bat (if you like Go better than Ruby or Python)

https://github.com/astaxie/bat

Re: The HTTP TTY

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Post by cryowaffle » Mon, Sep 14, 2015, 4:35 PM UTC

zcdziura wrote: post #28

Slightly off topic, but does anyone know the name of the ASCII Art font used in this application's banner?

I don't think there is any special font used for the ASCII art...

You aren't asking for a font that produces ASCII art are you? If so then you might misunderstand how ASCII art is produced.

Re: The HTTP TTY

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Post by merlincorey » Mon, Sep 14, 2015, 4:37 PM UTC

zcdziura wrote: post #28

Slightly off topic, but does anyone know the name of the ASCII Art font used in this application's banner?

It's two different ones.

"HTTY" appears to be written in fraktur. "The HTTP TTY" appears to be written in "grafitti"

The standard figlet fonts are here: http://www.figlet.org/examples.html

Here's the entry on fraktur from the figlet fonts library: http://www.jave.de/figlet/fonts/details/fraktur.html

Re: The HTTP TTY

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Post by merlincorey » Mon, Sep 14, 2015, 4:38 PM UTC

cryowaffle wrote: post #34

zcdziura wrote: post #28

Slightly off topic, but does anyone know the name of the ASCII Art font used in this application's banner?

I don't think there is any special font used for the ASCII art... You aren't asking for a font that produces ASCII art are you? If so then you might misunderstand how ASCII art is produced.

You're quite confused - please see my response, but he was looking for the FIGLET fonts that produced the "ascii art" text.

Re: The HTTP TTY

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Post by dmd » Mon, Sep 14, 2015, 4:38 PM UTC

cryowaffle wrote: post #34

zcdziura wrote: post #28

Slightly off topic, but does anyone know the name of the ASCII Art font used in this application's banner?

I don't think there is any special font used for the ASCII art... You aren't asking for a font that produces ASCII art are you? If so then you might misunderstand how ASCII art is produced.

I think you're the one misunderstanding things here. There are most certainly such things as ASCII art fonts. Here's a very simple one: https://gist.github.com/dmd/6c57d30c1a38c611a99b

Re: The HTTP TTY

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Post by jonesetc » Mon, Sep 14, 2015, 4:53 PM UTC

corobo wrote: post #23

rmetzler wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Sometimes installing an entire programming language just to use one tool is not worth the time I could possibly waste just trying to figure out how to get it working (assuming it works). That's why I would love to see more Docker containers and docker-compose.yaml files for tools shared on HN. A Docker container for this would be super simple to build using an official Ruby Docker container and it would save so muc…

Docker for a command line tool? I thought docker was more for your public facing service sort of thing. Does it even have a full on terminal, being a container? I'll be honest I've not been keeping up with Docker. It shows, right?

-t when running a docker container allocates a pseudo-tty.

Docker is useful for trying out cli interpreters like this, iojs, or any thing else of the sort. I wouldn't want to use docker if I planned on keeping it around to use more than a couple of times though.