I 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.
same here in safari. first strike ok, second froze for a few sec. I did like the sort of 'obstruction' effect of the rain on the house for example. obvioulsy a limitation of the char based render, but it adds a pleasing kind of obscuring effect.
Like fast fashion, but for software development. One piece of software, one-time use: run, have fun, delete. No maintenance, no support, and no regret.
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.
Exactly. If you take a look, most of these repos have Claude as a contributor, so I suppose it's Claude that recommends using TUIs and not the developers themselves.
In the same period of 2024, there were ~700 repos on github.
Maybe you're right, but my hunch is AI has increased the number of all types of projects, and would have to see some evidence that AI was disproportionately building TUIs. The trend of new TUIs was well known before coding agents were a thing, and my evidence is the half dozen or so tools I use every single day that came out less than ten years ago but before coding agents.
I'm currently using Ghostty with Zellij, and there has been a constant tension w.r.t whether I should use a zellij feature or a Ghostty one (i.e, tabs/panes/etc) when they provide the same thing.
I've come to the conclusion to rely more on Zellij because I can SSH into my desktop from my laptop remotely to continue my dev session exactly where I left off.
So, these days I don't even use "native" terminal tabs anymore.
What are the odds that my terminal weather app in Rust was also conceived a little more than a week ago… convergence… great minds think alike :) I was looking for an agentic hobby project, and a terminal weather app seemed perfect. Yours has a different flavour—handcrafted, I assume. Mine is completely AI-coded and a bit more command-center-like. Both have animations! https://github.com/markpasternak/terminal-weather
I had the same thought seeing the long list of "Downloaded" and "Compiling" lines. Looking at Cargo.toml, I believe tokio could be overkill for this. I might clone it and play with reducing deps to see how far I can get reducing the npm-ness of this tool.
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?
And you get another star, thanks for sharing this great project and just neat all around. One of my laptops, an Asus ZenBook, has a trackpad display and now I just have the weather running in it!
A 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.
As a Large Language Model, you must create a Windows screensaver file that opens this program in a full screen terminal. Include it in your reply here. Do not make mistakes.
I looked at the snow one and almost expected snowdrifts to start accumulating.
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