This is a Neovim plugin that animates the cursor with a smear effect, inspired by Neovide's animated cursor. It works in any terminal by using floating windows and Unicode block characters to render a smooth, physics-based trailing cursor. The plugin listens to cursor movement events and interpolates the cursor position using a spring-damper system, drawing the smear as a quad with sub-cell precision. It supports configurable stiffness, damping, particles, and various rendering modes (vertical bar, horizontal bar, diagonal blocks, braille). The codebase is modular, with clear separation between animation logic, drawing, color management, and event handling. The drawing module is particularly noteworthy for its sophisticated use of Unicode symbols to achieve anti-aliased-like rendering in a terminal environment.
milli.nvim is a Neovim plugin for animated ASCII splash screens. It provides both pre-rendered splash animations (like fire, blackhole, skeleton) and live procedural shaders (plasma, rain, doomfire, starfield) all implemented in pure Lua using Neovim’s extmarks for coloring. The plugin integrates seamlessly with popular dashboard plugins (dashboard-nvim, alpha-nvim, snacks.nvim, mini.starter) via autocmds and preset functions. It also includes a community registry for sharing splash data, with a sandboxed loading mechanism to prevent arbitrary code execution. The codebase demonstrates careful engineering: anchor-based positioning to handle variable terminal sizes, color-run optimisation to stay within Neovim’s highlight-group limit (E849), and deterministic pseudorandom number generation in shaders to avoid corrupting math.random. The external CLI tool (npm package `milli`) allows users to generate their own splashes from images or GIFs, and the data format is simple and portable. Overall, it is a well-crafted, feature-rich plugin with clear architecture and several reusable patterns.
tui-realm is a Rust library/framework for building terminal user interfaces (TUIs) using a component-based, event-driven architecture. It is not a standalone application but a reusable framework that wraps ratatui (formerly tui-rs) and provides an Application loop, Component/AppComponent traits, a Model/Update/View pattern, and a subscription system for routing events between components. The monorepo is organized as a Cargo workspace containing the core `tuirealm` crate, a `tuirealm_derive` procedural macro crate, a standard library of reusable components (`tui-realm-stdlib`: Input, Label, List, Table, etc.), and optional integration crates `tui-realm-textarea` and `tui-realm-treeview`. The framework is designed to reduce boilerplate by centralizing focus management, event routing, and state handling in the Application/View layer, while allowing developers to define custom components and event sources via Ports and Subscriptions.
This is a monorepo housing two terminal-based Instagram clients: a modern TypeScript client using React Ink for a rich Terminal User Interface (TUI) and a legacy Python client using curses. The system provides a full-featured Instagram experience entirely within the terminal, including real-time messaging via MQTT, feed and story browsing, profile viewing, multi-account management, authentication (with 2FA/challenge support), and one-turn CLI commands for AI agent integration. It also incorporates LLM-based chat summarization (OpenAI compatible) and basic analytics in the Python client. Architecture is straightforward: a CLI entry point (Pastel for TS, Typer for Python) dispatches commands, with the TUI built from reusable Ink components (ScrollView, MessageList, InputBox, etc.) that manage state via React hooks and contexts. A mock system enables offline UI development. External dependencies include reverse-engineered Instagram APIs (instagram-private-api, instagram_mqtt) and multiple utility libraries. The dual-client structure and reliance on patched, unofficial APIs introduce maintenance risks, but the TypeScript client is well-crafted with clear separation of concerns, thorough component reuse, and thoughtful UX design for keyboard-driven terminal use.
Notcurses is a C library for building rich terminal user interfaces (TUIs) with full pixel graphics, multimedia support, and a widget toolkit. It provides both a full-screen rendered mode and a direct mode for simple output. The library abstracts terminal capabilities (terminfo, escape sequences, pixel protocols like Sixel and Kitty) and offers a composable plane system with z-ordering, transparency, scrolling, and damage-based rendering. It includes built-in widgets such as reels, selectors, menus, progress bars, plots, trees, and tabbed containers, as well as a multimedia backend (FFmpeg/OpenImageIO) for image/video decoding and streaming. The architecture is centered around a core C library with official C++ and Python bindings, plus command-line tools (ncplayer, nctetris, notcurses-demo, notcurses-info, etc.) that demonstrate its capabilities. Input handling uses an automaton-based parser for escape sequences and mouse protocols. The codebase is substantial and well-tested, though some areas show incomplete features and platform-specific complexity.