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

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