I'm not sure I would find all of this terribly useful, but it does remind me of a little addition I made to my status script - the time in UTC as well as local time. If you use a system where you are easily able to add arbitrary text to your status bar, I highly recommend this addition. If you do not use such a system, I highly recommend a change ;)
WTF: A personal information dashboard for your terminal
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#42Earlier quoted context omitted.
At what point do we just say why not 'install a modern GUI'?
I have yet to see a modern GUI that didn't put pretty little animations a higher priority than being modular and configurable and having as much or as little data density as I desire. Command lines, on the other hand, do it natively if not intuitively.
My point was that at some point adding more desktop-like functionality to Terminal you essentially create a GUI.
I could argue that OSX / Ubuntu are modular and configurable and easily allow you to control data density too.
Ultimately it's obviously whatever tool makes you most productive. My comment was more of a flippant observation of the nature of human endeavour.
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#43I'm not sure I would find all of this terribly useful, but it does remind me of a little addition I made to my status script - the time in UTC as well as local time. If you use a system where you are easily able to add arbitrary text to your status bar, I highly recommend this addition. If you do not use such a system, I highly recommend a change ;)
Anyone wanting to do something like you describe in the menubar should check out Hammerspoon. Brilliant stuff.
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#44I don't know any go. I was able to read everything, like I wrote the code. Is go usually that easy? If yes, I think I should learn it.
Yes. One of go's strengths is that there are very few tricks and the language is heavily biased towards easy reading over compact code.
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#45This is pretty neat. A dashboard screen isn't my style, but I've taught my assistant program to answer a lot of the same questions.
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#46Earlier quoted context omitted.
I have yet to see a modern GUI that didn't put pretty little animations a higher priority than being modular and configurable and having as much or as little data density as I desire. Command lines, on the other hand, do it natively if not intuitively.
Have you seen GKrellM? http://gkrellm.srcbox.net/
Their example demonstrates how cluttered the GUI is. I suppose you could change skins to something less gaudy but I bet that winds up looking like a terminal application.
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#47I don't know any go. I was able to read everything, like I wrote the code. Is go usually that easy? If yes, I think I should learn it.
they designed the language to have the effect you just described
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#48Brilliant project!
Re: WTF: A personal information dashboard for your terminal
#49Earlier quoted context omitted.
I have yet to see a modern GUI that didn't put pretty little animations a higher priority than being modular and configurable and having as much or as little data density as I desire. Command lines, on the other hand, do it natively if not intuitively.
My point was that at some point adding more desktop-like functionality to Terminal you essentially create a GUI. I could argue that OSX / Ubuntu are modular and configurable and easily allow you to control data density too. Ultimately it's obviously whatever tool makes you most productive. My comment was more of a flippant observation of the nature of human endeavour.
In my experience, OSX is not modular and configurable out-of-the-box. You need to install plugins.
Ubuntu is the red-headed stepchild of Linux which wants to be Windows. I use it at work. I hate it. I'd rather use Fedora.