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Just redesigned my personal site with a TTY-style interface
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Re: Just redesigned my personal site with a TTY-style interface
#62Nice! I did the same a while ago: HTTPS://BI6.US/ . I've been using the VT220mod and VT323 typefaces for various projects for a while. It just made sense to make my vanity site look like a terminal from the 80s. Links to the fonts can be found at HTTPS://BI6.US/A.HTML and the whole thing is creative commons licensed. Feel free to use the boilerplate for your own non-commercial projects, though I ask for attribution.
Re: Just redesigned my personal site with a TTY-style interface
#63Very cool! Note: This doesn't work with Vimium installed, since only certain keystrokes make it through to the page. I think the input would need to be an input field in order for that to work.
You should be able to press 'i' to enter 'insert' mode then the site should work.
Re: Just redesigned my personal site with a TTY-style interface
#64This is awesome. I should copy that for https://offpunk.net
Re: Just redesigned my personal site with a TTY-style interface
#65I did this like 15 years ago for my personal site too! Looks great.
Re: Just redesigned my personal site with a TTY-style interface
#66This is a dangerous path! I once did the same and it grew to become https://masswerk.at/jsuix ;-)
(Historical note: pixels were bigger, in 2003. Feel free to zoom in / increase the text size.)
Re: Just redesigned my personal site with a TTY-style interface
#67Nice! It would be good if help displayed specific help for that command.
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#68Nice work!
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Re: Just redesigned my personal site with a TTY-style interface
#69I did something like this myself a little while back, knownothing.dev It’s fun to put together nonstandard interfaces. I had the idea of streaming in text like you were connected by an old modem to a remote system. Never experienced it myself, as I am not old enough, but I found the idea aesthetically pleasing.
> streaming in text Nowadays people would think your site is an LLM page, since ChatGPT implemented this and now every LLM apparently has to do the same...
You know, I hadn't really considered that.
I do find the text streaming aspect of LLM interfaces to be a charming solution to the latency issue. What's old is new again.
Re: Just redesigned my personal site with a TTY-style interface
#70I'm going to represent the critical opinion and say: this is cute and I like the idea in theory, but if I encountered this in the wild, I would just leave the page. I explore most informational websites with a mouse or a touchscreen - I don't want to type to navigate your website! A middleground might be to make the commands clickable, so that clicking on "help" automatically inserts and runs it, and clicking on any…
Agreed, a better option would be SSH / Telnet server in addition to a web page, perhaps with auth instructions given on the web page to keep the majority of bots out.