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619: The Trouble with TUIs
June 15, 2025
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We spent the week learning keybindings, installing dependencies, and cramming for bonus points. Today, we score up and see how we did in the TUI Challenge.
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Links:
- ๐ฅ Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike
- ๐ป LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FM
- LINUX Unplugged TUI Challenge Rules
- darnir's TUI Report
- zee โ A modern text editor for the terminal written in Rust
- Helix Editor
- Browsh โ fully-modern text-based browser
- ddgr โ ๐ฆ DuckDuckGo from the terminal
- Ranger - A VIM-inspired filemanager for the console โ Ranger is a console file manager with VI key bindings. It provides a minimalistic and nice curses interface with a view on the directory hierarchy.
- Joshuto โ Ranger-like terminal file manager written in Rust
- tenere โ ๐ค TUI interface for LLMs written in Rust
- elia โ A snappy, keyboard-centric terminal user interface for interacting with large language models. Chat with ChatGPT, Claude, Llama 3, Phi 3, Mistral, Gemma and more.
- kpxhs โ Interactive Keepass database TUI viewer
- keepass-mode โ Emacs mode to open KeePass DB
- gocheat โ A beautiful customizable TUI Cheatsheet for keybindings,hotkeys and more in the terminal
- castero: โ TUI podcast client for the terminal
- textual-web โ Run TUIs and terminals in your browser
- todoist: Todoist CLI Client. โ Todoist is a cool TODO list web application. This program will let you use the Todoist in CLI.
- gomuks/gomuks: A TUI Matrix client โ A Matrix client written in Go using mautrix.
- orf/gping: Ping, but with a graph
- impala โ ๐ TUI for managing wifi on Linux
- cmus - C\* Music Player โ cmus is a small, fast and powerful console music player for Unix-like operating systems.
- systemctl-tui โ A fast, simple TUI for interacting with systemd services and their logs.
- tdf โ A tui-based PDF viewer
- rainfrog โ ๐ธA database management TUI
- jqp โ A TUI playground to experiment with jq
- andcli โ A 2FA TUI for your shell
- iamb โ A Matrix client for Vim addicts
- parllama โ TUI for ollama and other LLM providers.
- russ โ A TUI RSS reader with vim-like controls and a local-first, offline-first focus
- ytui-music โ Youtube client in terminal for music (lightweight youtube client)
- wiki-tui โ A simple and easy to use Wikipedia Text User Interface
- tuifeed โ ๐ฐ A terminal feed reader with a fancy ui
- yazi โ ๐ฅ Blazing fast terminal file manager written in Rust, based on async I/O.
- vault-tasks โ TUI Markdown Task Manager
- Don's TUI Challenge blog โ #TUIChallenge
- Shyfox's TUI Challenge results
- Himalaya โ CLI to manage emails, based on email-lib
- jellyfin-tui โ Jellyfin music streaming client for the terminal.
- Alacritty โ A cross-platform, OpenGL terminal emulator.
- apple/containerization โ Containerization is a Swift package for running Linux containers on macOS. Containerization is written in Swift and uses Virtualization.framework on Apple silicon.
- Pick: somo โ A human-friendly alternative to netstat for socket and port monitoring on Linux.