A homepage for the terminal

I’ve mostly used terminals transactionally; though I don’t avoid them, I’ll usually interact with a terminal window to run a few commands, and get back to what I was doing. Over the past few years, though, this has been changing. Thanks to a profusion of modern text-based user interfaces (TUI) applications and modern terminals, it’s now becoming increasingly viable and enjoyable to spend extended amounts of time in here. Its appeal lies in the sense of calm provided by these barebones display capabilities, which are being cleverly adapted into experimental new interaction patterns. This setup manages to provide a much-needed buffer against the increasingly hostile and clamorous nature of the modern web, and the vendor-infested browsers that host it. Modern terminals Over the past decade, several new terminal emulators have emerged, such as Ghostty, Alacritty, Kitty, and WezTerm. They differentiate themselves from the “legacy” terminals by offering more in the way of customization and…