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The next generations of Bubble Tea, Lip Gloss, and Bubbles are available now

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Re: The next generations of Bubble Tea, Lip Gloss, and Bubbles are available now

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Post by taurath »

tokioyoyo wrote: post #22
zelphirkalt wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This has led to a completely overblown design of at least their website. All these cutesy pictures of bubble tea, way too big graphical wrappers, no simple page that is labeled "screenshots", no explanation what "bubbletea" actually is, ... One would think it to be a simple task to mention somewhere that this is a TUI library, where one can see it at the first glance. But apparently not. Instead I am seeing: Your new…

From my interactions with younger engineers, this is what "they're looking for". I think we're just used to a different format, so our expectations don't match the reality. Our instincts are different, maybe? Not sure.

No, it still sucks, it’s genAI and the author uses twitter. Younger engineers veer the heck away from stuff that “looks” of a culture but isn’t.

Re: The next generations of Bubble Tea, Lip Gloss, and Bubbles are available now

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Post by jasongi »

My favourite library from these folks is gum (https://github.com/charmbracelet/gum). The basic premise is simple - instead of using hardcoded variables or in addition/instead of using CLI flags, call gum and capture the STDOUT to get the selected input value(s). Great for turning a bash script into a TUI, uses these libraries under the hood.

I find the pattern of showing interactive TUI if required options/flags are omitted much nicer than showing an error/help output.

Re: The next generations of Bubble Tea, Lip Gloss, and Bubbles are available now

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Post by beart »

I love this design language to death. I know a lot of engineers prefer a no-frills, straight to the point readme (as reflected in these comments), and I get that. But I also don't want to live in a world made out of nothing but boxes.

It feels a bit like visiting Fallingwater and complaining that there are no arrows pointing to the bathroom.

Re: The next generations of Bubble Tea, Lip Gloss, and Bubbles are available now

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Post by nsonha »

monster_truck wrote: post #33

Branding aside, if I have to use -50% magnification to get to a readable text size, your text is far, far too large. Why is this website yelling at me Why is it so hard to figure out what any of this does? I just want some screenshots

Is is just me or this is the first website with a sensible text size (relative to the lenght of the content) and every other (legacy) sites on the internet has way too small text?

Re: The next generations of Bubble Tea, Lip Gloss, and Bubbles are available now

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Post by skybrian »

oDot wrote: post #45

Shameless related plug for my recent project Trolley, which lets you package a TUI as a desktop app, for your non-technical users or otherwise: https://github.com/weedonandscott/trolley

What does it look like? Any screenshots?

Re: The next generations of Bubble Tea, Lip Gloss, and Bubbles are available now

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Post by oDot »

skybrian wrote: post #47
oDot wrote: post #45

Shameless related plug for my recent project Trolley, which lets you package a TUI as a desktop app, for your non-technical users or otherwise: https://github.com/weedonandscott/trolley

What does it look like? Any screenshots?

It launches whatever TUI you give it with just window decorations. Here's the Linux one with one the debugging examples I use

https://imgur.com/St8O8Gm

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