Here’s how Tom Payne describes his project:

chezmoi is a popular dotfile manager (currently over 4.5K stars on GitHub and increasing quickly). chezmoi helps you get your prefered environment synchronized across multiple machines (e.g. your home desktop, your work laptop, and a temporary development container in the cloud) while easily coping with differences from machine to machine and keeping all your secrets safe either with your password manager or encryption. Using chezmoi feels very much like using git (and indeed it builds on git). chezmoi is easy to install, quick to start with, runs everywhere, and scales from managing a handful of files on one machine to complex multi-machine set-ups with hundreds of dotfiles and plugins.

Getting a new machine set up looks like:

$ sh -c "$(curl -fsLS git.io/chezmoi)" -- init --apply <github-username>

My dotfiles “manager” is just a combination of git clone and setup.sh, but if I used many machines I’d probably reach for something more robust like this. If you’re already using a manager for yours, here’s a comparison guide of how chezmoi stacks up to other popular options.

A while ago I did a blog post about using fzf in Vim, so this is a nice complementary post on how to use fzf in the terminal. It should be super useful to folks who dwell inside the command-line on a day-to-day basis.

The gang talks about thier favorite software and hardware as developers. Brian Douglas joins to share his unique and open GitHub Actions flow.

Lip Gloss takes an expressive, declarative approach to terminal rendering. Users familiar with CSS will feel at home with Lip Gloss.

I love how much love is going in to terminal UIs these days 👏

This is a spare time project, so keep that in mind. It runs on Linux, macOS, Windows 10, and FreeBSD.

I wouldn’t advise obsessing over your GitHub stats, but if you’re going to do it anyway… might as well do it with this rad looking terminal UI! 😆

I can’t imagine why anybody would be building an awesome stock market terminal right now with loads of features such as stock discovery, market sentiment analysis, research tools, FA, TA, DD, and more.

Maybe they just like the stock? 😏

Fatih Arslan takes you through his journey to bring dark mode to his macOS terminal apps.

Now you can live that Terminal Life and that WSB Life at the exact same time. 👌

tmpsms is a command line utility written in POSIX sh that allows you to get a temporary phone number and receive SMSes. It uses Upmasked temporary SMS service in order to receive the messages. This is a very useful tool for those who use are testing applications during bug bounty hunting or just need some privacy and don’t wan’t to use your personal phone number.

I don’t know when I’d ever use this, but I love that it’s POSIX compliant and depends on just a few other CLI tools (curl, jq, and fzf).

As both a researcher and a programmer, switching between word processors, programming environments and file explorers was a pain. In this blog post, I show how I streamlined this process to where I never have to leave my terminal to write papers in LaTeX and Markdown, run code snippets directly from my scripts to a REPL, and save sessions and layouts so in just a few clicks.

DevTerm is a post-modern, digital minimalist lifestyle. The A5 notebook size integrates complete PC functions with a retro-futurism design, a 6.8-inch ultra-wide screen, classic QWERTY keyboard, necessary interfaces, high-speed wireless, long battery life, and even includes a practical thermal printer.

It even includes a printer?! This thing is bonkers. Pre-order today. Shipping “before April 2021”.

Ox is a code editor. It was written in Rust using ANSI escape sequences. It assists developers with programming by providing several tools to speed up and make programming easier and a refreshing alternative to heavily bloated and resource hungry editors such as VS Code and JetBrains. Ox is lightweight so it can be used on older computers.

Bear in mind, this is a personal project and is nowhere near ready to replace your existing tools just yet.

Ox is stealing good ideas from existing editors and provides a rundown of what that means in the README. It works on Linux, macOS, and Windows via WSL.

Use it to discover markdown files, read documentation directly on the command line and stash markdown files to your own private collection so you can read them anywhere. Glow will find local markdown files in subdirectories or a local Git repository.

By the way, all data stashed is encrypted end-to-end: only you can decrypt it

Bubble Tea is built with Go, but it’s based on the Elm Architecture so it might not seem very Go-like at first, but the author thinks hopes you’ll see past that and realize that many of Go’s idioms are at play as well.

Bubble Tea is in use in production and includes a number of features and performance optimizations we’ve added along the way. Among those is a standard framerate-based renderer, a renderer for high-performance scrollable regions which works alongside the main renderer, and mouse support.

This font is derived from the x3270 font, which, in turn, was translated from the one in Georgia Tech’s 3270tool, which was itself hand-copied from a 3270 series terminal. I built it because I felt terminals deserve to be pretty.

duf does for du what htop did for top.

In addition to the eye candy output you see below, you can also call it with the --json flag and pass the output to other programmer-y things.

Written in Go. The code that implements the game logic can be found right here.

Sometimes you just need a throwaway email and you can’t be bothered to leave the terminal, I get it.

tmpmail tmpmail is a command line utility that allows you to create a temporary email address and receive emails to the temporary email address. It uses 1secmail’s API to receive the emails.

The Analog Terminal Bell isn’t for sale, but that isn’t going to stop Aaron “Tenderlove” Patterson from trying to sell it to you in this epic infomercial. “It even works with /dev/urandom” 😆

To try the live SSH demo: ssh vtm@netxs.online

Everyone’s (or at least my) favorite system monitoring tool is still alive and kickin’ with a big 3.0 release. In addition to a new display option to show CPU frequency in CPU meters, optional vim key mapping mode, and many other goodies, the big news is this:

New maintainers - after a prolonged period of inactivity from Hisham, the creator and original maintainer, a team of community maintainers have volunteered to take over a fork at htop.dev and github.com/htop-dev to keep the project going.

Open source FTW!

More good news: Hisham has agreed to join us on Maintainer Spotlight!

Write your slides in Markdown and play pre-recorded code blocks with codio.

the eDEX-UI project was originally meant to be ”DEX-UI with less « art » and more « distributable software »”. While keeping a futuristic look and feel, it strives to maintain a certain level of functionality and to be usable in real-life scenarios, with the larger goal of bringing science-fiction UXs to the mainstream.

It might or might not be a joke taken too seriously.

Confession: I’ve shared this before. Sorry not sorry. It’s too cool!

Level up your SSH game with this nice rundown of tricks. How to: add a second factor to your SSH login, use agent forwarding safely, exit from stuck sessions, share a remote terminal session with a friend, and more.