A Guide to the Terminal, Console, and Shell

• notcurses

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  blingful character graphics/TUI library. definitely not curses.

For those interested in learning more about terminal emulators and character graphics, checkout Nick Black's book Hacking the Planet (with Notcurses): A Guide to TUIs and Character Graphics[1].

While the overall focus of the book is on programming with Notcurses[2], the author shares a wealth of related info and history throughout its pages. Note also that Notcurses has evolved quite a bit since the book was written, but it's still a nice resource.

[1] https://nick-black.com/htp-notcurses.pdf

[2] https://github.com/dankamongmen/notcurses#readme

• arcan

  33 1,496 8.0 C

  Arcan - [Display Server, Multimedia Framework, Game Engine] -> "Desktop Engine"

See https://arcan-fe.com/, in particular Lash: https://arcan-fe.com/2022/10/15/whipping-up-a-new-shell-lash...

• InfluxDB

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  Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

  

• sixel-tmux

  34 455 0.0 C

  sixel-tmux is a fork of tmux, with just one goal: having the most reliable support of graphics

> For images and videos you want SIXEL support. Quite some terminal emulators support this nowadays.

And if they don't, https://github.com/csdvrx/sixel-tmux will give you the best rendering it can do

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