Texttop
Dev tools
terminal desktop renderer
SHOW HN2016
How HN took it
3 positive, 3 neutral or asking, 1 mixed, 4 critical, out of 11 comments about the project. Thread score -0.04.
Design: 2 for, 0 againstExecution: 0 for, 2 againstPerformance: 0 for, 1 againstIdea: 0 for, 1 against
The thread, comment by comment
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What HN said
What people liked
Looks nice, reminiscent of teletext art
From 1 comment
Looks rather nice, reminiscent of drawing using Teletext (e.g. http://teletextart.co.uk/, http://www.bbcbasic.co.uk/bbcwin/manual/bbcwinh.html).
geographomics on HN
Very cool, nice work
From 1 comment
This is so cool, very nice work! :D I've been playing with writing little custom SSH server stuff recently as well—try this for example: ssh hello.dn.ht One thing I've been…
dhotson on HN
Interesting idea, world map looks good
From 2 comments
May be image quality could be improved by using whole unicode set, rather than just plain ASCII. E.g. braille-fonts, like in blessed-contrib[1]. [1]…
xvilka on HNWow, that world map looks really good. Good suggestion, thanks.
tombh on HN
Objections
Hard to install, Docker and Node.js are heavy
From 2 comments
Cool idea but I haven't been able to get it working. Docker is proving to be a real drag to install. Furthermore in the GIF on the README the text is illegible.
macscam on HNAw, this is great but node.js is putting me off it :/ I was hoping I wouldn't have to install something so heavy for such a small utility...
StavrosK on HN
Text is illegible in the README GIF
From 1 comment
Cool idea but I haven't been able to get it working. Docker is proving to be a real drag to install. Furthermore in the GIF on the README the text is illegible.
macscam on HN
Does not work over OpenSSH connection
From 1 comment
With OpenSSH 7.2p2, I get: ``` ssh_dispatch_run_fatal: Connection to 107.170.66.146 port 22: invalid format ``` But I see "Hello! :D" with ncat :)
LukeShu on HN
Requests
Use more Unicode block characters for higher resolution
From 4 comments
May be image quality could be improved by using whole unicode set, rather than just plain ASCII. E.g. braille-fonts, like in blessed-contrib[1]. [1]…
xvilka on HNYou don't even need to do that, just using a box-drawing character where half the character is black (U+2580 or U+2584) would double your vertical resolution.
TazeTSchnitzel on HNIt's probably beside the point, you could double the number of pixels and foremost make them square if you used fore- and background color for U+2584 or go even further with…
1ris on HNI implemented this neat trick that gives 4x spatial and 2x color resolution using Unicode Block characters http://www.blitzcode.net/rust.shtml#term_gfx…
SirRockALot on HN
Support 24-bit true colour
From 1 comment
Ok yeah wow, hiptext's output looks pretty fantastic. :) I'm using my own text webcam thing: https://github.com/dhotson/txtcam .. not too fancy, just using greyscale with some…
dhotson on HN
Questions
Does it work over flaky low-bandwidth connections
From 1 comment
Had never heard of them, thanks. Do you have experience with them over connections that drop, eg; travelling on a train, or connections as low as 3kbps?
tombh on HN
Alternatives named
blessed-contrib
From 1 comment
May be image quality could be improved by using whole unicode set, rather than just plain ASCII. E.g. braille-fonts, like in blessed-contrib[1]. [1]…
xvilka on HN
hiptext
From 1 comment
Haha Wasn't expecting that, very cool! How did you do that? Have you some code somewhere? Thanks for the praise :) A big part of pushing forward with this was seeing the quality…
tombh on HN
libcaca and libaa
From 1 comment
Haha Wasn't expecting that, very cool! How did you do that? Have you some code somewhere? Thanks for the praise :) A big part of pushing forward with this was seeing the quality…
tombh on HN
NX / X2Go
From 1 comment
NX / X2Go
AnthonBerg on HN
wopr
From 1 comment
so try https://github.com/yaronn/wopr
yaronn01 on HN