There’s a TUI for that (Friends)

The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source

Nick Janetakis is back and this time we’re talking about TUIs (text-based user interfaces) — some we’ve tried and some we plan to try. All are collected from Justin Garrison’s Awesome TUIs repo on GitHub. This episode is “AI free.”

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Featuring:

• Nick Janetakis – Twitter, GitHub, Website
• Jerod Santo – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn
• Adam Stacoviak – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, Website

Show Notes:

• Justin Garrison’s awesome-tuis repo
• aristocratos/bashtop - Linux/OSX/FreeBSD resource monitor
• aristocratos/btop - A monitor of resources
• “Getting started with tmux” on YouTube
• Changelog Interviews #511: The terminal as a platform (with Will McGugan)
• LazyDocker - manage everything Docker
• Superfile - fancy and modern terminal file manager
• Ranger - VIM-inspired filemanager
• Elia - TUI for interacting with large language models
• Atuin - Making your shell magical
• Warp - the terminal reimagined

Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Chapitres

1. Let's talk! (00:00:00)

2. Sponsor: Sentry (00:00:38)

https://sentry.io/

3. Hanging with Nick (00:03:55)

4. Reading blogs on YouTube (00:09:03)

5. Missing plot hole? (00:10:18)

6. One machine to rule them all (00:16:47)

7. TUI talk (00:21:17)

8. Ratatui (00:22:38)

9. Terminal tools, tips & tricks (00:24:37)

10. Sponsor: Cronitor (00:29:20)

https://cronitor.io

11. Still rockn' Atuin (00:33:42)

12. Pitching Adam tmux (00:45:27)

13. Diving deep into tmux (00:49:34)

14. bashtop (00:55:14)

15. One layer deeper (btop++) (01:00:30)

16. What exactly is a TUI? (01:03:58)

17. VisiData for tabular data (01:11:32)

18. Sponsor: Paragon (01:13:02)

https://www.useparagon.com/changelog

19. Beyond DevTools (01:16:41)

20. Docker stats (01:30:21)

21. Moar TUIs! (01:32:19)

22. LazyDocker (01:33:50)

23. Should we TUI-it? (01:40:31)

24. Adam enjoys a good TUI (01:42:31)

25. Get the install right (01:43:30)

26. This was fun. We're done. (01:48:50)

27. Outro (01:49:37)

28. BTW, Nick loves our T-Shirts (01:51:08)