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.

Nice little function to add to your .bashrc:

function mv() {
  if [ "$#" -ne 1 ] || [ ! -e "$1" ]; then
    command mv "$@"
    return
  fi

  read -ei "$1" newfilename
  command mv -v -- "$1" "$newfilename"
}

Click through for usage examples and a lively discussion in the comments about other ways of achieving similar things.

3mux is a terminal multiplexer with out-of-the-box support for search, mouse-controlled scrollback, and i3-like keybindings.

Sign me up ✋

A fun post where the author shows 4 ways you can randomly add some flare to your clear command. I’m a sucker for The Matrix, myself, but the Twilight Zone one is tight, too. Here’s the idea:

alias clear='[ $[$RANDOM % 10] = 0 ] && timeout 3 cmatrix; clear || clear

(assuming you have cmatrix installed)

This is a fantastic collection of Unix/Linux/BSD commands useful for IT work or for advanced users. System commands, processes, file system, SSH, SCP, rsync, encrypting files, SSL certificates, databases, disk quota…and more.

You can even print it for reference offline.

I logged this almost exactly 1 year ago, but nnn is worth another look:

it is also a disk usage analyzer, a fuzzy app launcher, a batch renamer and a file picker. The plugin repository has tons of plugins and documentation to extend the capabilities further. You can plug new functionality and play with a custom keybind instantly.

This is rad!

📅 Never miss CFP deadlines again. conrad remind
📊 Query and explore events using tags, names, locations, and dates conrad show --cfp
🔄 Crawlers upsert (update + insert) events once a week

Data sources include papercall, pydata/event-schedule, and python-organizers/conferences

The DDG team created a fun terminal interface… for your web browser. You know what’s even cooler? A DDG terminal interface… for your terminal. 😉

Onefetch is a command line tool that displays information about your Git project directly on your terminal. Onefetch supports almost 50 different programming languages. If your language of choice isn’t supported: Open up an issue and support will be added.

Jeffrey Paul shares a ⛴ load of goodies. I particularly like this idea:

I have a Makefile in my home directory… that I use to store common tasks related to my local machine… The one I use most often, though, is make clean, which takes everything in ~/Desktop and moves it into ~/Documents/$YYYYMM (creating the month directory in the process if it doesn’t exist), and also empties trashes.

Reader beware: 4154 words, approximately a 23 minute read