A Go module (and standalone binary) to make the output of coloured/formatted text in the terminal easier and more readable. You can use it in your Go programs, and bash etc. too.

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Microsoft is launching a new command line app for Windows, dubbed Windows Terminal. It’s designed to be the central location for access to environments like PowerShell, Cmd, and the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL). Microsoft is adding multiple tab support alongside theming and customization for developers who want to tweak the Terminal app. It officially launches in June, but the source code is already up on GitHub so you build it yourself today.

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Hyper 3 is finally out! The primary focus for this release is performance. The latest version includes several enhancements that make Hyper really fast. For those of us who spend a significant amount of time on the command line, this release is a total game changer.

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Wireshark is awesome when you have a packet capture on your local machine, but what if you’re on a remote machine and you need to study a pcap? Enter Termshark.

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I’ve wanted something like this for so long that I forgot I wanted it. Insta-install!

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John D. Cook: I’ve long been impressed by shell one-liners. They seem like magical incantations. Pipe a few terse commands together, et voilà! Out pops the solution to a problem that would seem to require pages of code. Are these one-liners real or mythology? To some extent, they’re both. Below I’ll give a famous real example. Then I’ll argue that even though such examples do occur, they may create unrealistic expectations. I agree with his overall argument, but the good news about the command line is you don’t have to become a wizard to get value out of it. Start small and go from there.

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While googler is extremely popular among cmdline users, in many forums the need of a similar utility for privacy-aware DuckDuckGo came up. DuckDuckGo Bangs are super-cool too! So here’s ddgr for you!

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On our recent text mode episode, we mentioned learning from other people’s dotfiles. Adam found this awesome-dotfiles repo and included it in the show notes, but I thought I’d log it as well to call more attention to it. Also, did you like my idea near the end of the show to produce some videos of smart/interesting developers walking us through their dotfiles? Holla back in the comments…

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We’re talking all things text mode with Lucas da Costa — we logged his post “How I’m still not using GUIs in 2019” a guide focused on making the terminal your IDE. We talked through his Terminal starter pack which includes: neovim, tmux, iterm2, and zsh by way of oh-my-zsh, his rules for learning vim, the awesomeness of CLI’s, and the pros and cons of graphical and plain text editors.

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Start off your Monday by working on your Tetris skills right inside your terminal.

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“GUIs are bloatware” — Terminal rules…a guide to the terminal… In this post, I’ll walk you through everything you need to start making your terminal a complete development environment: how to edit text efficiently, configure its appearance, run and combine a myriad of programs, and dynamically create, resize and close tabs and windows.

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This has a lot going for it: works with PowerShell, CMD, WSL or custom shells has tabs and multiple windows can be themed and configured to the hilt supports importing iTerm themes includes a fullscreen mode and more…

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By utilizing a simple and minimal usage syntax rels enables you to easily view various analytics & stats regarding the releases of any GitHub repository, displayed in a clean & concise manner, right from within your terminal.

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That gif is worth 1k words vs me trying to explain it to ya 👇

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This post from Daniel Weibel not only explains how macOS uses an outdated version of Bash, but also how to upgrade to the latest Bash via Homebrew. One thing that many macOS users don’t know is that they are using a completely outdated version of the Bash shell. However, it is highly recommended to use a newer version of Bash on macOS, because it enables you to use useful new features. $ bash --version GNU bash, version 3.2.57(1)-release (x86_64-apple-darwin18) Copyright (C) 2007 Free Software Foundation, Inc. The reason Apple uses this old version of Bash has to do with licensing. Bash 4.0 and newer uses the GNU General Public License v3 (GPLv3), which Apple doesn’t support. There are some discussions about this on Reddit. Version 3.2 of GNU Bash is the last version with a license that Apple is willing to accept, and so it sticks with it.

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uses a colored output to distinguish different categories of bytes (NULL bytes, printable ASCII characters, ASCII whitespace characters, other ASCII characters and non-ASCII).

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I put Terminus’ tagline in scare quotes because while it’s intriguing, I do not know for sure whether it delivers on that promise. In more of its own words, Terminus is: …heavily inspired by Hyper. It is, however, designed for people who need to get things done. Them sound like fighting words. But what does “designed for people who need to get things done” mean, exactly? From the feature list in the README, I think maybe it means that it takes Windows more seriously than Hyper and handles printing output more quickly. But that’s just a guess… I’d love to see a roundup and comparison of this new breed of Electron-based terminals. Anybody game?

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That’s a big claim (but well-hedged with the use of ‘probably’). What else does nnn bring to the table? It integrates seamlessly with your DE and favourite GUI utilities, has a unique navigate-as-you-type mode with auto-select, disk usage analyzer mode, bookmarks, contexts, application launcher, familiar navigation shortcuts, subshell spawning and much more. See for yourself in the demo video.

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You can pair with a friend without setting up a proxy server, debug servers behind NATs, and more. WebTTY also works in-browser. You can connect to a WebTTY session from this static page: https://maxmcd.github.io/webtty

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I find it a bit odd that so many of these terminal-focused tools/libraries are written in JavaScript. Why is this? Atwood’s Law, perhaps?

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This is a bit difficult to explain, but the Gif is worth 2^10 words.

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Lots of options and features packed in to this little tool. You can even add a watermark to the output, for those of us whose terminal use is Serious Business™.

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Gorgeous! Get it on the Hyper Store.

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A Linux terminal recorder written in Python which renders your command line sessions as standalone SVG animations.

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Spend most of your day at the command line? WTF lets you build a dashboard so you can check your Google calendar, GitHub repos, New Relic deployments, and of course: the weather 🌧

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