Turns out I recently wrote a dashboard client (quick hack in Ruby, soon converted to Go) for our status monitor app server (in Go, exposes only an API to get th

Turns out I recently wrote a dashboard client (quick hack in Ruby, soon converted to Go) for our status monitor app server (in Go, exposes only an API to get the results). The monitor is on Digital Ocean and the dashboard is on premises and runs on ArchLinux (on an old spare machine, soon a RPi because noise and thermal exhaust, and why wwe'll convert the client to Go, to lower overhead as much as possible), switches to vt8 on boot and does its thing straight into tty8. It can also be run locally, is responsive to resize, and triggers notifications via the bell (pcspkr on the dashboard machine, terminal bounce+tab icon on OS X Terminal.app) when something bad happens. Learning about terminal escape sequences and capabilities (SIGWINCH, alternate screen, doing coloring non naively, clear part/all of line/screen) was quite fun and not that hard. Going terminal/VT is incredibly interesting for us when building such tools because the setup is extremely simple, robust, secure, and portable. This package will certainly allow us to go to the next level much more easily.