I'm intrigued by these TUI posts I see, but I'm wondering how everyone uses more then one at a time. Do you all keep multiple terminal windows or tabs open with these apps all day or just open these TUI apps when needed?
A terminal weather app with ASCII animations driven by real-time weather data
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Re: A terminal weather app with ASCII animations driven by real-time weather data
#32I'm intrigued by these TUI posts I see, but I'm wondering how everyone uses more then one at a time. Do you all keep multiple terminal windows or tabs open with these apps all day or just open these TUI apps when needed?
I'm already running tmux. Opening a new window is easy.
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#33I watched the animated gif in the readme and let out a shout of delight when I saw the lightning strike, and on the second loop appreciated how it also lit up the surroundings. Lovely attention to detail! I looked at the snow one and almost expected snowdrifts to start accumulating.
For me (in firefox) whole screen froze for a sec/two when lightning hit.
I disabled hardware acceleration due to some DRM reasons and notice heavy JS graphics will lag the browser.
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#34TUI twice (1) a day. Interesting tendency. 1. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47075124
I'm convinced we are cycling through the stages of programming as it becomes commoditized.
That'd be true if there were more TUI applications being developed, but I'm not sure that's necessarily the case, since there have always been a lot of them out there. It seems like people are talking about them more often, though.
Re: A terminal weather app with ASCII animations driven by real-time weather data
#35I'm intrigued by these TUI posts I see, but I'm wondering how everyone uses more then one at a time. Do you all keep multiple terminal windows or tabs open with these apps all day or just open these TUI apps when needed?
I keep htop and some vim buffers open regularly, and I keep some tools open while a work on a project e.g. https://github.com/Canop/bacon.
But everything else is opened as needed. Especially toys like this weather thing.
EDIT - I use a 4k monitor and the window manager niri, so it's easy to fit multiple terminals on a screen
Re: A terminal weather app with ASCII animations driven by real-time weather data
#36A terminal grid is the purest form of a layout constraint.
By mapping raw, real-time data directly to an ASCII matrix, the visual form becomes a literal byproduct of the data's underlying logic. It entirely strips away the decorative bloat modern GUIs suffer from.
We enforce a similar principle when building algorithmic brand identities: impose absolute grid constraints so the generative system has no room to arbitrarily 'guess' what looks good. Elegance is subtractive.
Re: A terminal weather app with ASCII animations driven by real-time weather data
#37The background layer of snow that creates a 3D depth effect is really cool.
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Re: A terminal weather app with ASCII animations driven by real-time weather data
#40A terminal grid is the purest form of a layout constraint. By mapping raw, real-time data directly to an ASCII matrix, the visual form becomes a literal byproduct of the data's underlying logic. It entirely strips away the decorative bloat modern GUIs suffer from. We enforce a similar principle when building algorithmic brand identities: impose absolute grid constraints so the generative system has no room to arbitra…
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