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We live in a time of a Renaissance of terminal tools. I recently discovered Himalaya[1], a command line tool for email, and I really like it. I'm also intereste
by djha-skin 4y ago
We live in a time of a Renaissance of terminal tools. I recently discovered Himalaya[1], a command line tool for email, and I really like it. I'm also interested in exploring a new tool for calendar called qcal[2]. I'm kicking around writing a chat client for GroupMe for the terminal right now. That way I could finally ditch pidgin.
Like the OP, I spend all day in tmux these days, which is in many ways the most superior UI[3]. As a bonus, CLI tools are often cross-platform and very easy to write.
1: https://github.com/soywod/himalaya https://github.com/soywod/himalaya
2: https://shttps://sr.ht/~psic4t/qcal/r.ht/~psic4t/qcal/ https://shttps://sr.ht/~psic4t/qcal/r.ht/~psic4t/qcal/
3: http://www.catb.org/~esr/writings/unix-koans/gui-programmer.html http://www.catb.org/~esr/writings/unix-koans/gui-programmer....
- zozbot234 4y agoThe terminal tools of today are still extremely primitive compared to the TUI-based apps of the 1980s and early 1990s, not to mention networked BBS's that could be just as complex as any modern website. They came with entire UX interaction paradigms based on the terminal that have yet to be replicated on modern machines.
- pitched 4y agoLooks like the qcal link got double-pasted. Here it is if anyone else is interested: https://sr.ht/~psic4t/qcal/ https://sr.ht/~psic4t/qcal/
- rakoo 4y agoIf you like Himalaya, you'll probably like mblaze as well (https://github.com/leahneukirchen/mblaze https://github.com/leahneukirchen/mblaze) I also find fzf to be very good for building simple UIs. In fact I saw ways to do 80% of burgr with a few lines of fzf; composable tools really are the bee's knees