Just fresh out of the oven, release 0.16.1 of the poezio TUI XMPP client!

Mostly fixes and internal stuff, but also adds the ability to see redacted/moderated messages if you wish so – particularly useful if you are the one moderating –.

https://blog.mathieui.net/poezio-0-16-1.html

#xmpp #tui #terminal #python #jabber

I remember in the olden days, before iCloud was much of a thing, the Notes app in MacOS and iOS would sync to your email account, so they were always in sync, and even somewhat viewable from your ordinary email client, IIRC.

Just curious, in case something happens to #SimpleNote or my favorite client, #sncli, is there a cross-platform solution for syncing notes with email? Something that can work on #Android, #GUI, and #TUI/command-line?

Any good #TUI to query #databases ?

#rust #DB

Big news for rats! 🎉🥳

🐁 Ratatui is now running on Nintendo Switch 🔥🎮

🦀 Powered by Rust & @ratatui_rs's mousefood backend

⭐ GitHub: https://github.com/sermuns/ratatui-on-nintendo-switch

#rustlang #ratatui #tui #nintendoswitch #embedded #gamedev #opensource

The new version of "Mousefood" is out! 🧀🥳

🐁 **Mousefood** — A Ratatui backend for embedded devices

🦀 Build TUIs for microcontrollers, e-ink displays & more using Rust!

📟 Tested on ESP32, STM32, RP2040
💯 Now supports blinking cursor & lilygo T5 e-paper
⭐ GitHub: https://github.com/ratatui/mousefood

#rustlang #ratatui #tui #embedded #microcontrollers #esp32 #rp2040 #stm32

What about a nice Midnight Commander-style TUI to manage cells interactively? 🤔

https://netbsd-cells.petermann-digital.de

#netbsd #cellsfornetbsd #tui #devops #modernretrocomputing

@reiddragon problem is that allegedly #vim also does the same, not only #neovim.

• Maybe someone will just yeet all the #claude commits and do a nvim-ng or nouveauvim instead?
  • Cuz personally I think the ability to turn it into a real #CLI / #TUI-based #IDE with #Lua instead of #VimScript really made it nice.

Espechally with #nvChad being a nice default…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c4OyfL5o7DU

#OS1337 #NoAI #AntiAiAction #NoSlop #Enshittification #AI #AIslop

SSD not CSD

The nice thing about that period, is that everything was keyboard driven and the mouse was only used when it was handy. The great thing about that period, is that you could do everything literally everything with your keyboard and the user interfaces were much more simple to design, modify and to expand, because it was much easier for the programmers to determine what you want based upon the fact that you are using the keyboard as input.

It started to go downhill when the scrollwheel was added.

Three buttons were enough.

Everything degenerated to CSD, while SSD is the proper way to go, and we now have hacks to force SSD in different Linux distributions. Hopefully the BSD flavours have such hacks too

If you still want SSD as much as possible, you need to use fluxbox as your DM / WM and use the considerable tweaks that @rl_dane has suggested to me in another toot in this thread, get firefox to behave normally again. You should also disable all the silly LLM stuff in ffox...
Im going to put the tweaks at work here on this SBC Pi5, I'm currently on

@tragivictoria  @Radio_Azureus @magitian

#GUI #TUI #design #40years #fvwm #twm #Xorg #programming #technology #DE #desktop #environment #WM #window #manager #FluxBox #XFCE #KDE #GNOME #design

GUI TUI

Your response sheds a clear light on what's wrong, deeply wrong in this matter.

I stick to DE and window managers which feel and look like they're from decades ago. In those I don't face the horrible points you stated. I glanced at the theme on it's own and did not take these points into account.

From the perspective of UI design, many GUI's have been deliberately broken with the thin and disappearing scroll bars which are a *PITA and the removal of the menu bar by default in this bloody browser I work in ATM within standardnotes. There is so much broken in those things I would need to type a whole book full, yet very few would read it.
I always find workarounds which is what I stated in the previous stansa.

You're right that 40 years of meticulous UI design, craft and tweaking should be cherished and expanded. I wonder why this trend started

I loved working in fvwm & twm and did it for years

Are there still Window and Desktop Managers left which are currently maintaned and follow the priciples as strickt as possible? What do you think of KDE in this light?

Note:
I use XFCE as my DE and love the other light one in the MX Linux distro FluxBox. The older it is the better I can fly thorugh it with my keyboard and windows behave in a standard way

@rl_dane @Radio_Azureus @magitian

#GUI #TUI #design #40years #fvwm #twm #Xorg #programming #technology #DE #desktop #environment #WM #window #manager #FluxBox #XFCE #KDE #GNOME #design

This release brings fixes for OTR detection, OMEMO startup, overwriting new accounts when running multiple instances, reconnect when no account has been set up yet, adds a new /changes command that allows the user to see the modifications of the runtime configuration vs. the saved configuration among many other fixes and improvements. Make sure to have fun!

https://github.com/profanity-im/profanity/releases/tag/0.16.0

#PoweredByXMPP #RUNJBR #Jabber #TUI #Linux #Chat #Messenger

@moses_izumi

I'm like the very worst #vim user. I've used it for a quarter century and maybe understand a tenth of its abilities. XD

I'm absolutely addicted to the vi-style modal controls for editing, as it feels like a superpower, like you're becoming one with the editor. Everything else about vim/neovim seems rather inscrutable to me, and I honestly found WordPerfect 5.1 (1989) easier to use. :/

Honestly, the people who write #TUI applications for linux and other Unixy OSes should seriously look at 1980s #DOS applications. They were actually easier to use, learn, and master, and I'm saying that as someone who hated DOS. XD

Please take note, #CLI / #TUI devs.

Some of us still like 80x25, and would like our tools to be usable at that resolution.

#kthxbai

P.S. 80x24, what was I thinking??? 😂🤦‍♂️

Alt...

"If you don't love me at my / then you don't deserve me at my" meme If you don't love me at my (photo of VT320 with the text "80X25" superimposed over the screen) then you don't deserve me at my (Photo of a Hollywood/NORAD-style multi-monitor hacker/security-type fictional terminal-ish setup with the "HACKERMAN" at the bottom

Built bsddialog from git (thanks to @alfonsosiciliano@bsd.cafe for the project) and wired it into my tty1 session menu — this is what my login screen looks like now.

Clean fonts, proper spacing, no GUI toolkit… it really feels like a real BSD-style installer, not just “dialog in a box”.

#BSD #Slackware #TUI #Unix

@jbz

I gotta say, modern #TUI design has not caught up to 1990, at all.