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I see these solutions a lot lately, HN browser, weather, etc, all in the terminal. Perhaps a silly question, but why the need for browsing it in the terminal in
by matthijs_ 11y ago
I see these solutions a lot lately, HN browser, weather, etc, all in the terminal. Perhaps a silly question, but why the need for browsing it in the terminal instead of a browser like say, Chrome or Firefox?
- mQu 11y agoBecause it looks good on r/unixporn ;-) But more to the point - it fits with many keyboard only work flows and/or tiling WMs (i3, awesome, etc). At least that's what it's good in it for me. One less context switch.
- ant6n 11y agoWhen work is in a terminal, and hacker news it's in a browser, it's probably a good thing that there's a context switch between them.
- omaranto 11y agoDon't those reasons also soy to browsers? My tiling window manager is perfectly capable of tiling browser windows. Browsers like Firefox and Chrome can be controlled fully by keyboard, even very comfortably with the right extension.
- rafael-rinaldi 11y agoBesides learning purposes, I built it because I spend most of my time in a Terminal window.
- JD557 11y agoI've been reading HN on vim for a while. Sometimes I just want to kill some time while code compiles/tests run. This way, HN is just on a different split pane, and I can stop browsing as soon as the other job is finished.