TTE: Terminal Text Effects

1. notcurses

   1 106 3,882 9.2 C

   blingful character graphics/TUI library. definitely not curses.

   

   Rather reminds me of Nick Black's Notcurses library.

   https://nick-black.com/dankwiki/index.php/Notcurses

   https://github.com/dankamongmen/notcurses

2. InfluxDB

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   InfluxDB – Built for High-Performance Time Series Workloads. InfluxDB 3 OSS is now GA. Transform, enrich, and act on time series data directly in the database. Automate critical tasks and eliminate the need to move data externally. Download now.

   

3. bupy

   2 2 13 5.3 Python

   The Butane Python Toolkit

   

   I was thinking about how fun it would be to add this my Python CLI [0] I made for launching Fedora CoreOS locally with QEMU for testing ignition, but with a flag that is turned off by default. Using the burn effect in TTE when launching a VM with my CLI would be so cool.

   This instantly reminded me about Ansible and how it annoyed me that ANSIBLE_NOCOWS had to be enabled to disable the default output of Ansible with cowsay [1].

   [0]: https://github.com/quickvm/bupy

4. Ansible

   3 410 64,942 9.7 Python

   Ansible is a radically simple IT automation platform that makes your applications and systems easier to deploy and maintain. Automate everything from code deployment to network configuration to cloud management, in a language that approaches plain English, using SSH, with no agents to install on remote systems. https://docs.ansible.com.

   

5. ponysay

   4 8 1,240 0.0 Pony

   Pony rewrite of cowsay.

   

   On a further tangent, that reminds me of two of my favorite things to install on a Linux system, ponysay and ascii-pony/systempony. I set each of my systems to a different character to show on bash logins with systempony (WSL instances included)

   https://github.com/erkin/ponysay

   https://blog.yjl.im/2016/01/ascii-pony-systempony-screenshot...

6. libcaca

   5 9 573 0.0 C

   💩 Colour ASCII Art Library

   

   Does this have some overlap with libcaca? cacademo and cacafire are especially impressive. Also has Python bindings.

   https://github.com/cacalabs/libcaca/tree/main

7. no_color

   6 31 276 6.4 HTML

   Website data for no-color.org

   

   It'd be good if it recognised https://no-color.org/ and just didn't do anything. Or maybe replaced with

   Maybe it does, I didn't check.

8. mintty

   7 9 1,664 9.2 C

   The Cygwin Terminal – terminal emulator for Cygwin, MSYS, and WSL

   

   > (There’s precisely one thing like this I’m aware of terminal emulators adding in recent memory: clickable links, ca. six years ago.)

   And they are often disabled by default, as a potential security risk. We don't get to have fun things, do we? (also worth read: CVE-2003-0063, abusing escape seq is unfortunately a valid concern against adding more stuff).

   On other hand, more and more emulators are adding support for various graphic protocols (sixel, iTerm2 format, kitty format).

   > I’ve been waiting for one or more terminal emulators to get together and add some ridiculous new escape codes[...]

   Well, it's not much, but mintty apparently has some interesting stuff like audio support[0], and codes for font size and font family[1][2].

   iTerm2 also has a bunch of custom escape sequences of varying level of usefulness starting from displaying fireworks animation on cursor position to sending system notifications (although sadly I could not get the last one to work for me).

   For some semblance of forms, you can check bubbles[4] and gum[5] (binary to easily incorporate the components into shell scripts).

   [0]: https://github.com/mintty/mintty/wiki/CtrlSeqs#audio-support

9. SaaSHub

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10. bubbles

    8 14 6,275 8.7 Go

    TUI components for Bubble Tea 🫧

    

11. gum

    9 48 19,621 9.3 Go

    A tool for glamorous shell scripts 🎀

    

12. floss-various-contribs

    10 3 - -

13. wezterm

    11 156 20,276 9.7 Rust

    A GPU-accelerated cross-platform terminal emulator and multiplexer written by @wez and implemented in Rust

    

14. notes_public

    12 4 - -

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