TUI Stuff

I love TUI (Terminal User Interface, or Text-based User Interface) applications. Here are some of my favorites:

Useful

• ag - an improved grep. AKA "the silver searcher"
• aspell - spell checker. aspell -c filename.txt to check a file
• cmus - local music player I've been using for ages
• emacs - my editor of choice. It's fine if you prefer another
• fzf - fuzzy file finder. Super easy and handy to use
• links - my preferred text-based web browser
• ncdu - find out where all your disk space is being used
• neomutt - the mail client I always end up going back to
• newsboat - RSS reader I mostly use to keep up on webcomics
• pyradio - for listening to streaming music
• ranger - handy file manager (mostly mass moves/deletes for me)
• sc-im - a vim-like spreadsheet editor, I use it for CSVs
• tig - git TUI interface, I mostly use it for history browsing
• weechat - IRC client. Lots of potential extra scripts/features
• yewtube - great way to watch YT videos without a browser
• yt-dlp - for downloading YT content (get just audio with -x)

Fun

• angband - an ASCII roguelike I've played since the mid-90s
• asciiskyline - my own ASCII city skyline simulator
• asciiquarium - watch out for the shark and the hook
• cava - audio visualizer, fun used with cmus or pyradio
• cbonsai - use the -l option to watch the bonsai grow over time
• pipes.sh - TUI version of the popular pipes screensaver of old
• tintin++ - for connecting to text-based MUDs (I run/play CLOK)