--- title: "m9a devlog 1" description: "It's sad to see textualize.io close the doors, but textual is still alive and maintained as a n open source project. I tried to use it very early, and..." date: 2025-05-11 published: true tags: - python - markata - textual - tui template: blog-post --- It's sad to see textualize.io close the doors, but textual is still alive and maintained as a n open source project. I tried to use it very early, and struggled, this was before docs and tutorials really existed, before a lot of the widgets and components existed. Then as we all do I got busy and moved on to other things in life and did not have the capacity to build TUIs. ## I like tuis I like tuis, I like staying in the terminal. I use [lf](https://github.com/gokcehan/lf) daily to move files around when I want something more than `mv` and `cp`. I use [k9s](https://github.com/derailed/k9s) hourly to monitor and manage my kubernetes cluster. ## Are they worth the effort?? As awesome as tui's are, they are more effort to build, and less automatable. I feel like the first stage into automation of a project really needs to be a good cli, and this is often good enough for the project and I move on. ## m9a (em - nine - ah) _inspired by k9s_ Like I said I really like k9s and use it all the time, It really makes running kubectl commands a breeze and much less verbose. I don't know how useful this will be, but as a learning exercise I am working on a k9s experience for my blog generator markata. ![m9a-1-trimmed.webm](https://dropper.waylonwalker.com/api/file/53671f5a-acc5-4d17-aa2d-2e9ac6db5674.webm) ## Learning So far this is just for learning and not quite the most useful thing, I am not sure if there is a way to do it, but I am interested in the idea of some sort of framework (maybe just widgets) that can more easily turn pydantic objects into this kind of tui. I don't quite know how it would work, or if it could work, for now just exploring the idea, and I think I hit a fairly crude clone of k9s so far.