derasterize
Windows Terminal
derasterize | Windows Terminal | |
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6 | 507 | |
103 | 93,619 | |
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1.8 | 9.7 | |
over 3 years ago | 4 days ago | |
C | C++ | |
GNU General Public License v3.0 or later | MIT License |
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derasterize
- C source file, that is also a valid shell script
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Terminal Graphics for the 21st Century
Far far better than caca.
The subset of usable characters (glyphs) roughly defines how accurate the picture can be represented: if all you have is - and _ and you want to represent an horizontal pipe, it'll be ugly.
Of course it's more complicated than that, but caca uses ascii, while chafa uses a larger unicode range.
The example is illustrated in picture on https://github.com/csdvrx/derasterize where the left is the original basicidea.c using only unicode halfblocks, and the right has more candidate of different shapes.
Derasterize lets you select the width of the range you want to use, to improve encoding time say for video - but ideally, you would be able to test that whatever font you are using contains the glyphs you want.
- Rust Is Portable
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Everything you ever wanted to know about terminals(but were afraid to ask)
She's not only done work with sixels but she's the maintainer of the highest quality tool for rendering images as unicode blocks. https://github.com/csdvrx/derasterize
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Alacritty with sixel
On the application side, there is as yet exactly one terminal multiplexer that can handle images inside multiple terminals, but someone (saitoha?) did make a dev branch of tmux that could do it. /u/csddvx has I think the most recent version of that ; and her derasterize can make sixel work with non-sixel terminals which is a really neat trick.
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Show HN: I wrote a rust program to translate images into textual line art
For better quality, check https://github.com/csdvrx/derasterize
Example in Windows Terminal:
Windows Terminal
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Ask HN: Interesting TUIs (text user interfaces), maybe forgotten ones?
A Microsoft employee recently (~6 months) opened a Github issue to discuss a command line editor for Windows: https://github.com/microsoft/terminal/discussions/16440
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Deleting Software I Wrote Upon Leaving Employment of a Company
> convince management of the value
This presupposes that such convincing is even possible. Many, many companies have leadership that are simply terrible at identifying value. If you've never been part of a majority of developers advocating for, if not outright begging for, some huge ROI initiative to get the green light, you are very fortunate.
There are great counterexamples, like Valve, which is known for giving developers an extreme degree of autonomy, and they benefit greatly from that approach. For each Valve, though, there are dozens of companies that manage to succeed despite themselves.
Take Microsoft, for example. One tiny, yet representative, example: the way the Windows Terminal team handled a suggestion from Casey Muratori to take their software from abysmally slow to lightning fast:
https://github.com/microsoft/terminal/issues/10362
A quote from one of the Terminal developers, dismissing the suggestion:
> I believe what you’re doing is describing something that might be considered an entire doctoral research project in performant terminal emulation as “extremely simple” somewhat combatively…
Just how difficult was such an endeavor in actuality? Well, given that Casey implemented his own terminal emulator from scratch and incorporated the functionality he was proposing in a mere weekend... not a whole lot. Relatively minor effort for a huge return on investment. It took Casey explaining the concepts, then providing a working proof of concept, and finally a bunch of backlash online towards the Terminal team to get them to do the right thing for themselves and their users.
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A glimpse into the universe where Windows died with the 1980s
At this point ConHost.exe is open source [0] so it is maybe not a stretch to expect Microsoft to open source CMD.EXE at some point.
Though with PowerShell being cross-platform and already open source, I personally don't think there's enough to gain in some sort of better open source CMD.EXE fork. I'd be interested in being proved wrong on that, but I'm also happy enough with PowerShell these days I'm not in a hurry to return to CMD.EXE.
[0] https://github.com/microsoft/terminal/tree/main/src/host
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Windows 11 looks to be getting a key Linux tool added in the future
"Users of Linux and macOS may well be familiar with the sudo command, used regularly in the terminal, and it looks like Windows may finally be getting its own version."
More Linux tools are coming to Windows, especially Windows Server because the tools are good and they make it easier to administer a Windows Server.
They are looking at adding a default TUI text editor (https://github.com/microsoft/terminal/discussions/16440) and now they are adding sudo.
I would not be surprised if systemd or something like it gets ported or reinvented for Windows simply because it makes managing services so nice.
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Overview over Microsoft's developer tools for Windows
GitHub
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On Being Listed as an Artist Whose Work Was Used to Train Midjourney
>We are allowed to view and consume it, to be influenced by it, and under many circumstances even outright copy it.
People keep saying this but it's actually much more complicated, and in many cases you can't view copyrighted content.
An example, MicroSoft employees are not permitted to view or learn from an open source (GPL-2) terminal emulator:
https://github.com/microsoft/terminal/issues/10462#issuecomm...
Another example is proprietary software that may have it's source available, either intentionally or not. If you view this and then work on something related to it, like WINE for example, you are definitely at risk of being successfully sued.
If you worked at MicroSoft and worked on Windows, you would not be able to participate in WINE development at all without violating copyright.
If you viewed leaked Windows source code you also would not be able to participate in WINE development.
An interesting question that I have, is whether training on proprietary, non-trade-secret sources would be allowed. Something like unreal engine, where you can view the source but it's still proprietary.
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Terminal Smooth Scrolling
Windows Terminal is pretty good and a new terminal emulator written in the last few years. No smooth scrolling, here's the GitHub issue requesting it: https://github.com/microsoft/terminal/issues/1400
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Microsoft defends Edge's predatory practices with cringe reply on X
Assume its related to this:
https://github.com/microsoft/terminal/issues/10362
It's nothing serious just microsoft engineers writing slow as shit code and reacting poorly to someone trying to help.
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Should Windows have a default CLI editor?
"There are plenty of offline scenarios where this would be incredibly useful. For disconnected environments, etc. There are some environments that will never connect to winget."
Source: https://github.com/microsoft/terminal/discussions/16440#disc...
- Windows Feature Exploration: Default CLI Text Editor
What are some alternatives?
tv - Quickly view (satellite) imagery directly in your terminal using Unicode 9.0 characters and true color.
Tabby - A terminal for a more modern age
sixel-tmux - sixel-tmux is a fork of tmux, with just one goal: having the most reliable support of graphics
cmder - Lovely console emulator package for Windows
blessed - Blessed is an easy, practical library for making python terminal apps
pyroscope-rs - Pyroscope Profiler for Rust. Profile your Rust applications.
PowerShell - PowerShell for every system!
rules_closure - Closure rules for Bazel
starship - ☄🌌️ The minimal, blazing-fast, and infinitely customizable prompt for any shell!
chafa - 📺🗿 Terminal graphics for the 21st century.
refterm - Reference monospace terminal renderer