Texttop – An interactive X Linux desktop rendered in TTY and streamable over SSH
Author here. Surprised to see this here as I've been literally spending the last 2 weeks on a complete rewrite from scratch that actually layers REAL text over the blocks. You can get an idea of my approach with this function: <a href="https://github.com/tombh/texttop/blob/webext-rewrite/webext/src/text_builder.js#L165" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/tombh/texttop/blob/webext-rewrite/webext/...</a><p>After the success of hitting the front page here last year, I really wanted to sit down and do this properly. So not only am I working on real text support (that you can of course copy and paste without even zooming). But I've removed the dependencies on ffmpeg, Xorg (for Firefox at least - Chrome strangely doesn't support webextensions in headless mode), docker AND it will work on all webextension-compatible browsers. It's going to be a single cross-platform, static, Go binary, that launches your preferred browser in the background.<p>Generally it's bad luck to talk about something before it's finished, but seeing as it's suddenly on the front page I wanted to let all those interested know that I'm making this 10 times better. And an early apology, because I'll definitely be posting the rewrite (and rename) here and hoping to get all your attention again.