ahmd-sh

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Comment · 1 month ago
let's go! thanks for checking it out :)
Comment · 1 month ago
hey thanks for trying it out! :) also it would look sick on a cyberdeck!!
Comment · 1 month ago
interesting, i wonder if the looks/animation work the same. i'd started with opentui and knew nothing about existing tui libraries like ratatui and bubbletea, but at ship time i did see the binary size was much more than i expected and that irked me. i wonder if that goes down too with ratatui.

thanks for your feedback! :)

Comment · 1 month ago
your point exactly. there's a fair bit of room for improving this relatively simple project, but it's mainly the look and feel i was after without shamelessly shipping slop
Comment · 1 month ago
hey thanks for trying it out. honestly, this was just a fun selfish project because i'm really into the look and feel of tuis lately. there's no overarching vision with using tui/intermediaries for browsing the web, i believe browsers exist for a reason that LLMs haven't been able to replace yet :)
Comment · 1 month ago
hey thanks for trying hntui out. that would be ideal, i honestly thought of hooking up brow.sh locally to achieve that. it just gets finicky with a few articles but is a decent experience. i'll keep testing and evaluate the option of a browser config for the tui so you can choose how you'd like to open the link.
Comment · 1 month ago
thanks for trying it out mate :)

also if you have bun, you can run it without installing it: bunx @ahmd-sh/hntui

Comment · 1 month ago
not yet mainly because the official api is read only and i didn't dabble in POST-ing. i will say that while building this out, my interest in being logged in to the tui declined and i enjoy just using it for reading. but that's not to say i'd block a feature because of my opinions on it. if i can make it happen, i will give the option :D
Comment · 1 month ago
haha those 2 lines look awkward together at first glance. the binary doesn't need node/bun. the runtime is compiled into the executable (that's most of its size). :)
Comment · 1 month ago
ooo that looks nice, i'll check it out (and stea- ehm... bring over the good features to hntui). thanks! :)
Comment · 1 month ago
vimium is awesome. i'm getting used to it now.
Comment · 1 month ago
hey thanks for your input. unless i'm misunderstanding, hntui does save/store HN item IDs (and the Saved tab refetches)... but i think you might be pointing somehting else out that i'm not seeing (maybe the cursor)?
Comment · 1 month ago
wow this really blew up! it's so fulfilling and wild to see my post in the top page... using my tui! thanks guys, and i'll take all the valuable feedback into making this better.
Comment · 1 month ago
hey thanks for trying it out! i want logins/posting as well, but it doesn't seem likely given their current api. but i will look into it more and hopefully be able to support it sometime in the future! :)
Comment · 1 month ago
that's fair. thanks for pointing it out, there's a lot of helpful feedback here that will let me optimize this (admittedly) unnecessarily complex project :)

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