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What is the demographic you think this is perfect for? Just curious who this appeals to. It's not for me but that's OK I like opinionated things and recognised that that this is aimed at someone who probably will love it.
Perhaps it's developers who are looking for some validation from and engagement with their eight year old daughters?
Charm – Tools to make the command line glamorous
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Re: Charm – Tools to make the command line glamorous
#92I love the general renaissance of terminal UI tools we are seeing in the last few years. I can't quite put my finger on what I like about it so much. Something to do with the simplicity and directness of these UIs, guaranteed optimised for efficient keyboard nav, widespread adoption of vim-like navigation keys, and the fact that they link directly with my terminal shell so I can stay entirely in a stream of thought w…
I use tmux's scroll/select/copy/paste with vim bindings Alacritty has this too, but I have never tried it because I use tmux.
Re: Charm – Tools to make the command line glamorous
#93I love the general renaissance of terminal UI tools we are seeing in the last few years. I can't quite put my finger on what I like about it so much. Something to do with the simplicity and directness of these UIs, guaranteed optimised for efficient keyboard nav, widespread adoption of vim-like navigation keys, and the fact that they link directly with my terminal shell so I can stay entirely in a stream of thought w…
I've recently gotten into the habit of running my xterm inside Vim. At any given point I can do a `ctrl-\ ctrl-n` and edit the entire terminal history in Vim.
Very useful.
Re: Charm – Tools to make the command line glamorous
#94I love the general renaissance of terminal UI tools we are seeing in the last few years. I can't quite put my finger on what I like about it so much. Something to do with the simplicity and directness of these UIs, guaranteed optimised for efficient keyboard nav, widespread adoption of vim-like navigation keys, and the fact that they link directly with my terminal shell so I can stay entirely in a stream of thought w…
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The dynamic intuitive interface provided by `ssh git.charm.sh` is a wonderful example of how text-based user interfaces do not need to be limited to REPL. I wonder if there is space for a new text-based web browser that adopts some of the design features showcased by Charm.
A Gemini client might benefit: https://gemini.circumlunar.space/
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I really liked their web design.
Could you say a bit more about your demographic and what you like about it? It's definitely not for me, and I'm entirely ok with that. But I'm really curious about who it works for.
Demo: Early 20's male who likes tech.
Other examples of sites I like:
jwz (.) org (recommend typing this one into address bar, don't follow links from HN.
https://xxiivv.com/
http://100r.co/site/home.html
https://tildeverse.org/ , and most pages linked to from
https://tildeverse.org/members/
http://9front.org , especially the FQA:
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#98No idea if the tools are any good, but I absolutely love your branding. Opinionated, but perfect for the demographic.
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I am the demographic in that I love using the command line and want to see it get modernized. I thought the design was terrible. Noisy and pointless and frankly hard to see what is on offer. It’s pretty and stylish but absolutely awful if you care about the content, and that makes me worry that the components themselves will be similar.
Maybe it's aimed at a younger demographic and not just all devs that use cli tools. The design doesn't appeal to me but the several animated examples and quick blurbs about functionality seemed to showcase what was on offer pretty well.
Imagine if Amazon had a landing page with headings like 'eShopping', 'Internet', and 'Cashierless Shopping' to describe what the company did. (And worse, then obscured them behind fun but not descriptive names.)
It's a nice page, a lot's gone into making it obviously, but it could be about just one project, each section that's currently a different one instead explaining a feature or aspect of it. Or as it is, the big headings should be the class of thing each project is, not its 'fun but not descriptive' name, IMO. (Underneath: 'FunName approaches blah differently by ...', sure, just not the big eye-catching heading when I'm just scrolling trying to see what's on offer.)
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> I can't quite put my finger on what I like about it so much. I can. Doesn't require a 1.5GB build directory to make a 500MB binary that uses 3GB of RAM to display a chat client/music player/etc.
The node-based CLI tools kind of do though.