6 hours ago · Tech · 0 comments

I’ve been working on a new project called TerminalWidget, and I’m excited to tell you about it. It’s built for people who live on the command line and want useful output visible at a glance instead of buried in a terminal tab. I gave up trying to find a tool that did what seemed like it should be a simple thing: take things like progress reports, status indicators, and generated images and display them in macOS and iOS widgets. There are a couple of options out there, but they’re of limited flexibility and all suffer from huge lags in update times. So I built my own. TerminalWidget gives you a wide array of visualization options for status reports, chart data, progress indicators, and images, and it syncs across macOS and iOS with rapid updates (1s on macOS, under 30s when mirrored to iOS). You can check it out at terminalwidget.app, with deeper examples on the widgets page and full command docs on the CLI page. What TerminalWidget does TerminalWidget lets you push terminal output…

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