TUI Challenge Rules & Tools

[fabean]

Hey, I figured a github issue would be a good place to to discuss rules and tools to try.

For me the only rule I will not be able to comply with is "No modern GUI applications are allowed" which I see is a pretty big one. For me I'm a web developer, so I have to run a browser to work, no way around that but I do see how having one installed or open is a slippery slope.

I can code in VIM or Helix, I can look at tickets using a Jira TUI like jira-cli, I can clock my time with the Harvest API (haven't found a working TUI yet), for Slack I think the only real solution is Matrix bridge then a Matrix Tui as I don't think any of the slack tuis really work anymore but I personally cannot get past using a browser at least for work. I can try brow.sh and it might work for certain projects I work on but not sure I can properly test a website with that.

A cool thing I found when looking for TUI tools is nb command line and local web note‑taking, bookmarking, archiving, and knowledge base application. Using instead of Obsidian, it syncs with git so sync should actually work.

[ben-kuhn]

20 years ago I was watching Star Trek in the TUI using mplayer with fbcon support while waiting for my Gentoo system to finish building X and KDE.

MPV is cheating :-)

[stevemoon]

Boss mode: don't use a gui at all, just the console like an animal. Bonus if you can fix the font to give a 50 line console. Bonus if you use frame buffer to show graphics or videos eg old school mplayer with frame buffer output...

[HankB]

I plan to submit a task related effort that I'm working on right now. I don't particularly have an interest in some of the tasks in the challenge but have a task that's particularly TUI heavy. I'm configuring a Raspberry Pi 4B from the ground up to run Debian and several containers (including Home Assistant) without a keyboard or monitor. It's more of a headless challenge. Much of the initial work is done by ansible-playbook on my laptop and once booted, everything is via SSH (on an install w/out a DE like X that can forward GUI tasks.)

It's not going to reap top points but I thought it might be interesting to some.

And I have to add... (brag, really) that my previous submission for the BSD challenge was a series of scripts to provoke a bug in certain ZFS operations. These have led to the closing of a years old BR for OpenZFS openzfs/zfs#12014 and for that I am wildly ecstatic.

[timstoodt]

Don't forget mc Midnight Commander.