GitHub - kraanzu/smassh at terminaltrove
Smassh your Keyboard, TUI Edition. Contribute to kraanzu/smassh development by creating an account on GitHub.
GitHub · github.com [1]
smassh is the coolest monkeytype tui clone, its impressively accurate. Easy to install and run, all the same themes appear to be there and everything. maybe a good way to get a few reps in while agents are running these days.
35102587-dffe-48ec-920a-a037917e7776.mp4 [2]
I need to go back and brush up on my skills I’m down a good 20wpm from what I should be doing.
Note
This post is a thought [3]. It’s a short note that I make
about someone else’s content online #thoughts
References:
[1]: https://github.com/kraanzu/smassh?ref=terminaltrove
[2]: https://dropper.waylonwalker.com/file/35102587-dffe-48ec-920a-a037917e7776.mp4
[3]: /thoughts/
Posts tagged: tui
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9 posts
latest post 2026-04-02
Publishing rhythm
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Atuin desktop sounds dope AF, tried to install it off the AUR [1] and it was broken for me. Seems early and the dev team is all in on mac. They have an official .deb and .rpm. I’ll have to try again later, maybe the binary will work.
The idea of building out runbooks from my Atuin data sounds dope AF. It sounds like a mix of markdown and executable cells like a jupyter notebook, but not. Really pitching hard to those of us in the system administration, dev ops, SRE space. Having something that you walk through when a system goes down and you are feeling panicked in DR mode sounds relieving.
Note
This post is a thought [2]. It’s a short note that I make
about someone else’s content online #thoughts
References:
[1]: /aur/
[2]: /thoughts/
I’ve been working on
ninesui [1],
inspired by k9s see thoughts-633 [2].
I want a good flow for making video for the readme and I am using charm.sh [3]’s vhs [4] for this.
Its running in an archBTW distrobox and looks gawdaweful.
sort.mp4 [5]
The over saturated colors give it a really retro look, seems fine, but not my
cup of tea. I tried to change the textual theme to tokyo-night and it might
have made it a bit better, but still over-saturated.
After # [6]
What I found is that vhs has themes, setting it to dracula made everything much better.
# sort.tape
Output assets/sort.mp4
Output assets/sort.gif
Require echo
Set Shell "bash"
Set FontSize 32
Set Width 1920
Set Height 1080
+ Set Theme 'Dracula'
sort.mp4 [7]
NinesUI # [8]
I’m using these in my ninesui [9]
project, right now they are in the readme, but maybe some docs will grow
eventually. Right now its hardcore explore phase.
References:
[1]: https://github.com/WaylonWalker/ninesui/blob/main/README.md
[2]: https://thoughts.waylonwalker.com/post/633
[3]: https://charm.sh/apps/
[4]: https://github.com/charmbracelet/vhs
[5]: https://dropper.waylonwalker.com/api/file/e86047ed-6881-43f7-8e3a-30411d51afaf.mp4
[6]: #after
[...
m9a devlog 1
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 # [1]
I like tuis, I like staying in the terminal. I use
lf [2] daily to move files around when I
want something more than mv and cp. I use
k9s [3] hourly to monitor and manage my
kubernetes cluster.
Are they worth the effort?? # [4]
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) # [5]
inspired by k9s
Like I said I really like k9s and use it all the time, It really makes running
kubectl commands a ...
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X (formerly Twitter) · x.com [1]
This new demo of textual is wildly awesome, so many widgets and features being added into the main library. The themes and animations are on point and far surpass my expectations of a tui.
Note
This post is a thought [2]. It’s a short note that I make
about someone else’s content online #thoughts
References:
[1]: https://x.com/willmcgugan/status/1849831271289012463
[2]: /thoughts/
There’s a TUI for that with Nick Janetakis (Changelog & Friends #53)
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 o...
Changelog · changelog.com [1]
50 minutes into this episode they start a discussion on seo, and naming posts. They give Jerod the task of googling for tmux and see how high up the ranking they find Nick, expecting a number one post, and he cant even get to Nick.
The problem? Jerod is such a beginner he doesn’t even know what to search, he starts with a long query about getting started with tmux, but all of Nick’s videos are why you should use advanced features of tmux, but Jerod has yet to discover that these exist.
As experts we often come up wtih a post title for the exact thing that we are trying to teach someone how to do, but yet, they haven’t discussed that they need that feature yet, they just want the getting started guide, or tell me why I should start using tmux. Not why sessions are better than windows, and tabs suck all together.
Definitely an eye opening conversation listening to two experts sit in...
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X (formerly Twitter) · x.com [1]
This looks like a sweet tui postman clone. Darren is really rolling with these tui’s. Cant wait to see where this one goes.
Note
This post is a thought [2]. It’s a short note that I make
about someone else’s content online #thoughts
References:
[1]: https://x.com/_darrenburns/status/1797763563270095006
[2]: /thoughts/
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X (formerly Twitter) · twitter.com [1]
Textual is so sick, Will just made a live markdown editor in the terminal!
Note
This post is a thought [2]. It’s a short note that I make
about someone else’s content online #thoughts
References:
[1]: https://twitter.com/willmcgugan/status/1729158038551220477
[2]: /thoughts/
Textual - Center things
Textual is a TUI framework for Python, inspired by modern web development.
Textual Documentation · textual.textualize.io [1]
How to center things in textual. Textual has a very unique way of styling text user interfaces for the terminal using css. If you know css it feels natural.
@willmcgugan, has put together a great article on how to center things in textual
here the final result
from textual.app import App, ComposeResult
from textual.widgets import Static
QUOTE = "Could not find you in Seattle and no terminal is in operation at your classified address."
class CenterApp(App):
"""How to center things."""
CSS = """
Screen {
align: center middle;
}
#hello {
background: blue 50%;
border: wide white;
width: 40;
height: 9;
text-align: center;
content-align: center middle;
}
"""
def compose(self) -> ComposeResult:
yield Static(QUOTE, id="hello")
if __name__ == "__main__":
app = CenterApp()
app.run()
Note
This post is a thought [2]. It’s a short note that I make
about someone else’s content online #thoughts
References:
[1]: https://textual.textualize.io/how-to/center-things/
[2]: /thoughts/