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ultrageranium

Anyone can recommend forgotten books about designing and programming text user interfaces (TUI) for consoles/terminals, also known as screen design back in the 80s?

*Not* curses or using existing libraries, but more like relying directly on ANSI/VT100 control sequences. And *no*, I'm not asking for a list of escape sequences :)

The kind of material I'm thinking of is something close to the 1989 "Programming the User Interface: Principles and Examples" by Judith R. Brown and Steve Cunningham. But focused on TUI exclusively. The more (pseudo-)code, the better.

front cover of the book mentioned. It's a simples design with a centre image showing elements of user interfaces. One is text-based, another one shows some RGB sine waves, another some gradients, and no idea about the last one :)
#ansi#vt100#terminal
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Dimly Lit Corners

#Goals2025

Moving away from the constant upgrade cycle & moving closer to the ideals of #PermaComputing #MalleableSoftware

Design and setup a redundant system of old/used, cheap, low-power devices running ia: #Guix, #Linux, #FreeBSD, #macOS, #HaikuOS, #Plan9Front, #X11, #P9, #NFS, all working together

Become an expert on #MicroControllers #ESP32 #STM32 #RP2040 #MIPS #RiscV

DIY sensors which sing like birds to communicate their status

DIY robots "drones"

Move as much as possible of my computing needs to the #Terminal, #Emacs, #Rio #CLI #TUI #P9

Get an #3DPrinter and learn to use it

Design and build my own portable 8dot #braille terminal & try out if 3x3 or 3x4 dots is also workable.

Design and build my own low-power computers, their OS, and tools

Writing more of my own tools #DIY

#SmallTalk #ObjectPascal #Prolog #Scheme #Racket #CommonLisp #Haskell #Rust #Go #ObjectiveC #Swift

Deploy #LoRa #ReticullumNetwork #RNodes #MeshCore #Meshtastic

Start an #InternetResiliencyClub

Add #Tor, #I2P support by #WebProxy

#SolarPowered #SelfHost over #I2P, #OnionService #Blog #Wiki #Repositories #GopherHole #Darcs #Mercurial

#SelfHost my own #EmailServer, which will only accept email from #KnownServers #CommunityEmail #MutualEmailAcceptance

Share files via #BitTorrent over #I2P

DIY #HomeAutomation
DIY #GardeningAutomation
DIY #GreenHouse

Get a house cat, train the cat, use voice and gestures

Start asking money for advice & technology support

Build/program my own opportunistic and strange cryptocurrency miners #BTC, #XMR, #ZEC, etc #Art

#MakeMoreArt #LearnToDraw #Learn3DModeling #LearnGenerativeArt #LearnToComposeAmbientMusic

#ReCreateJottit #ReCreateInstikiWiki

#WriteMore #PublishMore #Letters, #Essays, #Missives, #Reports, #Treatise

…

#Incomplete#Ongoing#NotFinal
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Jon Sullivan

Have you ever seen a tūī looking all stylish and dressed up in *brown*!?

Apparently the condition is called "eumelanistic", which makes the usually iridescent black plumage into a dapper brown instead.

inaturalist.nz/observations/28

iNaturalist NZTūī (Prosthemadera novaeseelandiae)Tūī in June 2025 by Laura Molles. Apparently eumelanistic. Observation submitted on behalf of local resident who shared the photos.
#birds#nz#tūī
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Jon Sullivan

I was fortunate to spend today at Ōnuku, near Akaroa, on Banks Peninsula, NZ, helping the tūī team to catch and band tūī.

This is part of the ongoing effort to understand and manage the tūī on Banks Peninsula. The species was lost from the Peninsula due to forest habitat loss and pest mammals. Community restoration work has been reversing both of these and a new tūī population was kick-started by the Banks Peninsula Conservation Trust, with the translocation of birds from the Maud Island sanctuary in 2009 and 2010.

Thanks to the annual banding efforts, and the local community reporting the banded birds when they see them, we know that the population is now slowly growing and expanding.

All banding is done by registered Level 3 bird banders. My job today was to help spot the mist nets when the bird banders were busy with caught birds.

A photo of a tūī bird at a sugar water feeder. The sugar water feeder is made from an upturned wine bottle. This bird has colour bands that it was given two years ago. Tūī are a large dark iridescent bird with a white bobble of feathers under the beak (leading to the English settler name of Parson bird).
A close photo of the head of a NZ tūī bird. Tūī are a large dark iridescent bird with a white bobble of feathers under the beak. This one was in mid-call in the photo so has its beak open.
A photo of Chris, a Level 3 bird bander, with one of the 15 new tūī caught today in a mist-net and banded before being released. Chris is holding the tūī carefully in one hand and he's smiling.
A photo of Laura and Chris, the two Level 3 bird banders on the team today, each carefully removing a tūī bird from the mist-net set up in a farm garden near a sugar water feeder. The caught birds were weighed and sexed and banded before being released. The bands allow the local community to track where the tūī go and how long they live. Bird banding is careful, skilled work and it takes years of practice to reach Level 3, the highest NZ bird banding level.
#nz#tui#birds
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Feu d'jais 🥞

Y a-t-il des devs qui utilisent des navigateurs TUI ? J'aimerais essayer. Le but c'est de pouvoir utiliser Mojeek, et d'avoir le principe des raccourcis de recherches vers un site, genre pouvoir faire "pydoc dataclass" pour arriver sur la recherche du terme "dataclass" dans la documentation Python par exemple.

Merci. RT pour m'aider ♥️

#Dev#TUI#Browser
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