The fixed width font terminal has a certain aesthetic to it that appeals to me. Most likely it’s some misplaced nostalgia for primitive computing, even though I started out my computer journey enamoured of GUIs.

Whats the weather like?

$ curl wttr.in

Weather report: Medford, Massachusetts, United States

      \   /     Clear
       .-.      +51(48) °F     
    ― (   ) ―   → 9 mph        
       `-’      9 mi           
      /   \     0.0 in         

https://github.com/chubin/wttr.in

OpenSCAD

It’s a text driven CAD tool.

A lot of us have used CAD, and CAD is the poster child use case for graphical interfaces.

There are many grainy videos of amazing computer demos from the 1960s. Some historical guy is demonstrating this amazing thing they’ve built that pushes the ancient computer technology to it’s limit, and it is almost always about how no one is going to use keyboards any more.

They will be using mice, or light pens or haptic gloves. And the poster child application is often a CAD. Look how we can design this rocket by drawing three dimensional cylinders!

So it is all the more breathtaking to find a modern CAD application that is text driven.