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My personal site is a terminal
- JonRB 9y agoI love it, but my minor nitpick is that if you press tab for auto-complete it jumps up and back down again (in Firefox, anyway)
- deleted 9y ago[deleted]
- lulzury 9y agoYour personal site doesn’t work on Safari Mobile.
- Const-me 9y agoAnd has major layout & script problems on MS Edge.
- laurent123456 9y agoAnd on Firefox the vertical scrollbar keeps randomly going up and down.
- codazoda 9y agoAnd is quite terrible with Chrome on Android.
- na85 9y agoOr Firefox mobile.
- rajeshp1986 9y agoThis is so cool!!
- spocklivelong 9y agoI had mine for a while now http://chandrabhavanasi.com/ http://chandrabhavanasi.com/ which was based off of jquery and a bunch of hardcoding. I haven't updated it in a while though. The new ones I see once in a while on hn like these are pretty nice though.
- diegoperini 9y agoMine too. Completely useless but fun to create. (dperini.com)
- FruityFaiz 9y agoI love it! Just one thing though, when hitting tab it seems to be getting the root file and it doesn't work then. E.g cd Photo-Video cd Sunrise<tab>
- hprotagonist 9y agoThe effects during typing are a little distracting. Do you plan to allow the usual string navigation shortcuts that my hands are apparently unable to type without? (^-a ^-e ^-k, etc.) ?
- travisl12 9y agoI really like the particles.
- cyberferret 9y agoYeah, the one thing that made me click away from the site was the particle effects when typing. It really broke that 'suspension of disbelief' moment for me. I know it is not a real terminal, but if you are going to go to the effort of making people feel they are interacting with a terminal, then don't break that illusion with fancy chrome.
- acobster 9y agoAgree. It's a fun effect to show off as a FE dev I guess, but it feels out of character. Maybe make a "party mode" or something? You could click a disco ball to turn it on! :D Other than that, cool idea and well executed.
- borski 9y agoThat's actually from an atom plugin called Activate Power Mode: https://atom.io/packages/activate-power-mode https://atom.io/packages/activate-power-mode Some of my colleagues use it and I tell them they're absolutely nuts, but they swear by it. It reminds them their code has meaning, I guess? Haha
- microcolonel 9y agoI once helped conduct a hiring interview where the candidate had that enabled, it had an especially bad effect on the video compression in google hangouts screensharing.
- ipsin 9y agoIt'd be interesting to collect stats on all the commands people try to run, and to implement all the ones Linux users are likely to have wired into muscle memory.
- koenigdavidmj 9y agoI make sure to type 'sudo make me a sandwich' on all of these.
- synicalx 9y agoI bet there would be A LOT of 'rm -rf /'-ing going on. I'll admit it was about the second thing I tried.
- graysonk 9y agoIn the same vein, I always try ‘cat /etc/passwd’
- z2 9y agoReminds me of the XKCD April Fools terminal, whose code is actually available here: https://github.com/chromakode/xkcdfools https://github.com/chromakode/xkcdfools
- Trufa 9y agoWell, better than mine I suppose. http://trufavarela.com/ http://trufavarela.com/
- yeukhon 9y agoI guess my sloth is slightly more entertaining. http://yeukhon.me/ http://yeukhon.me/
- wybiral 9y ago<marquee> still works!?!?!?
- yeukhon 9y agoYes! Like Dreamweaver is still alive!?!?!?
- Jaruzel 9y agoI still use Dreamweaver 8 and 9. (They are the same thing actually, 9 is just rebranded as 'Adobe') No, I don't use design mode; I always live in code mode. I've added the HTML5 intellisense/syntax-highlighting add-on extension, which brings it up to modern standards, and I've created new HTML5 templates. It supports all the languages I need, and means I can have CSS, HTML, and JS all in the same editor with the same IDE features. It does me.
- yeukhon 9y agoIt was fun though. I learned to use Dreamweaver MX because at the time I was in elementary school and my teacher just started a campus newsletter club. We were also lucky to have computer class and got some HTML lessons. Mind you, this was 1999-2003 in HK. I was very disappointed at US’ computer class in my junior high.
- KGIII 9y agoThat's a pretty handsome sloth! It appears to even be smiling. I am not sure why, but that made me feel better.
- a3_nm 9y agoInteresting, but Tab completion seems broken: cd Foosball/ cat r<tab> Selecting text (on Firefox) doesn't seem to work either.
- yeukhon 9y agoSo is this just JS or an actual terminal is behind? Looks like just JS... I would love to see someone actually expose a shell.
- icebraining 9y agoIs it ok if the shell comes with a full Linux kernel? :) https://bellard.org/jslinux/vm.html?url=https://bellard.org/jslinux/buildroot-x86.cfg https://bellard.org/jslinux/vm.html?url=https://bellard.org/... (by the amazing Fabrice Bellard)
- irrational 9y agoSo... I can just view source and see all the available data. That is a lot faster then typing in commands.
- reustle 9y agoYou could also just run tree on your computer instead of navigating directories
- fimdomeio 9y agoproblem with the site is that since it only implements a subset of what one would expect from a shell you're constantly inputing things that do not work.
- synicalx 9y agoCool site that doesn't run like a dog, I'm impressed! I actually spent a few minutes fiddling around trying to see what I could do on the terminal, can't say that for many other sites. If I could offer one little bit of feedback; some labels on the menu at the top would be kind of handy, a few icons are easy to recognize but some aren't (at least for me).
- ntht8 9y agoLooks pretty broken for tab completion... Also you can't cat the .ai file? or open it? Whats the point.
- apthnz 9y agoIt took me a sec to realise duchess.ai was a folder, not a file, and then another second to realise tab completion was trying to send me to duchess.air for some reason. Cool concept, just a couple of little things to iron out.
- ellyagg 9y agoWhat a cool idea! I was hoping there was going to be a directory of blog posts I could `cat`. I feel like there's some fun potential here if you keep fleshing it out, but of course who has the time?
- LASR 9y agoNice work. But honestly, you're making it incredibly hard to quickly see your accomplishments.
- keithnz 9y agoreally "jumpy" when using Firefox Quantum. I found it frustrating, I didn't actually end up seeing anything other than the terminal I tried changing into folders, but it didn't seem to work. Seems broken.
- alexpetralia 9y agoI enjoyed how many people are quick to criticize that this doesn't work as well as an actual terminal. Because that was definitely, absolutely the point.
- cordite 9y agoI also can’t interact with it on my iPad. No keyboard comes up or a button like backup.
- sebbean 9y agoWhy?
- phirschybar 9y agoI love this.
- tekacs 9y agoI built one of these ~7 years ago (I feel old :( ) based on this over here [1], inspired by the XKCD CLI [2]. This is certainly prettier! [1]: https://github.com/tekacs/RCLI https://github.com/tekacs/RCLI [2]: https://uni.xkcd.com/ https://uni.xkcd.com/
- AlphaWeaver 9y agoNice! I made a site where information was primarily exposed via keyboard input (my personal site as well[0]) but I had to make sure mobile worked okay so I made a static version for mobile users. [0]: http://me.thatcoolidea.com http://me.thatcoolidea.com
- eschutte2 9y agoReminds me of http://alinelerner.com/ http://alinelerner.com/
- shusson 9y agoReminds me of https://github.com/zeit/hyper https://github.com/zeit/hyper
- mylesab 9y agoThat's awesome! I did a similar design for my tilde.town site: http://tilde.town/~myles/ http://tilde.town/~myles/.
- ggchappell 9y agoCool. Also, figlet sighting, "large" font. :-)
- madchops1 9y agoThanks!
- pvsukale3 9y agohttps://vishaltelangre.com/ https://vishaltelangre.com/ Checkout this one. It's built using Elm and is responsive.
- aq3cn 9y agoWould you mind if I use your source code to set up my own similar personal website? Of course, I will give the credit to you. By the way, I am impressed with this novel idea. I will tinker around the code to add my own features. https://github.com/vishaltelangre/vishaltelangre.com https://github.com/vishaltelangre/vishaltelangre.com
- pvsukale3 9y agoI'm not the creator of this website. You can contact him on Twitter
- Sverigevader 9y agoHeh, the clear screen hotkey (ctrl+l) also jumps to the address bar. I think he needs a "return false" somewhere
- tschwimmer 9y agoSimilar, but with no input lag: http://www.clarkduvall.com/ http://www.clarkduvall.com/
- drawnwren 9y agoInterestingly, this one doesn't register as text input with vimium so it's completely incompatible. OP's does register.
- floydianspiral 9y agohaha I know clark and this is ironic since he's obsessed with vim!
- aq3cn 9y agoHow do I make onscreen keyboard pop up in android os? I am using Firefox.
- 59nadir 9y agoYour `cat` command doesn't take multiple arguments, which is ironic since it's supposed to concatenate multiple files.
- scalablenotions 9y ago"Just one thing" - I'm sure Karl knows this is not fully-fledged, bug-free terminal. Great concept Karl, I think you're a no-brainer hire for anyone who wants to add out-of-the box problem-solving to their team, since you just hacked your personal brand publicity very creatively :)
- reificator 9y agoThis kind of site has been around for a long time. Amusingly enough there were even image boards with this approach.
- aynawn 9y agohow do you open the resume?
- nextstep 9y agoHey I just wanted to point out that this really cool site you built doesn’t have some of the features of a full terminal on Linux.
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- meitham 9y agoI'm specifically annoyed that readline binding of open editor, ctrl-x ctrl-e doesn't work. Please fix, never visiting your site again. (Tongue in cheeks).
- mmphosis 9y agoI am especially annoyed that little exploding color circles don't appear when I type on a full terminal on Linux.
- PhasmaFelis 9y agoI expect to see a GitHub project adding exploding color circles to a popular terminal app within a week. Edit: Never mind, someone time-travelled and did it a year ago. https://atom.io/packages/activate-power-mode https://atom.io/packages/activate-power-mode
- shmerl 9y agoTry https://duckduckgo.com/tty/ https://duckduckgo.com/tty/
- aq3cn 9y agoHow do I make onscreen keyboard pop up in android os? I am using Firefox in android.
- skrebbel 9y agoObligatory for HN: here's a VC whose site is a terminal: http://neuvc.com/ http://neuvc.com/
- microcolonel 9y agoWow, that's a lot braver.
- thepratt 9y agoBreaks after the first input is submitted. Won't let you type further.
- seedie 9y agoI realized it got me when I typed "exit", trying to leave the website
- polar 9y agoHa, I ended up bookmarking the page (Ctrl-D).
- harshil9968 9y agoI liked the whole thing, I would like to see alias like `ll` preconfigured in any good terminal. there are some issues with errors some of the places it doesn't show that. When changing directory (going back to home) it doesn't work and doesn't even show the error.
- harshil9968 9y agocommand `cd ~/` doesn't work.
- Lapsa 9y agofirst command I tried: `rm / -rf`
- gnulinux 9y agoThose visual effects are annoying beyond comprehension. You should find a way for users to disable them easily.
- erikbye 9y agoI'm unable to start Vim.
- hasenj 9y agoThe concept is cool, but I'd like to point out a couple of issues. The explosion/flashing thing is somewhat annoying. Honestly comes off as childish. Tab-completion _deletes_ word under cursor if no match is found? Why? Why is the terminal built on angular? Seems like an overkill. Partly because I think Angular is a terrible abomination, but in general there's not much going on there to even warrant a framework.
- commenter1 9y agoI guess it works as an art project, but as a website, it's a complete failure.
- ambewas 9y agorm: command not found :(
- ForFreedom 9y agoThat concept is f*ing cool... love the idea
- mijoharas 9y agoSo, because it was a terminal, to exit it I automatically hit Ctrl+D, which bookmarked the page. Well played Karlsteltenpohl, well played.
- ake1 9y agoLess well played: Ctrl+w Granted this does happen a lot on all other sites when typing but being in a terminal much instantly triggered it.
- nerdponx 9y agoThe Jupyter terminal actually does manage to hijack ctrl+w and ctrl+t, at least in IE Edge. Not sure how they manage it but it's kind of a nice touch.
- laumars 9y agoNice idea. I really wanted to like this but I'm not so sure you've pulled off the execution. Just after a couple of minutes of usage I found so many compatibility differences between that a real shell that navigating around your site became rather frustrating: * Tab completion was glitchy * Deleting characters mid line was glitchy * Commands don't follow common idioms: - `ls *` would fail - `ls -l` would fail - `ls ` (space char after `ls` command) would fail * I couldn't select the output from `ls` to paste into the prompt * Symlinks don't behave link symlinks: - I cannot `cat` them, have to click with a mouse - Yet they are still displayed as a file in `ls` * Common readline shortcuts like ^U don't work * It barely works on mobile / tablets: - Scrolling is all over the place - Screen doesn't resize to use the full screen - Pain to type commands on mobile keyboard because they auto-capitalise first characters Also there seems to be some latency between keypress and the character appearing which makes the experience a little jarring too. Given this is your main way to navigate the site rather than a secondary navigation system, I think it's something you either need to go full out or not bother at all as the novelty of a partially compatible - inspired by Bash - approach wears off very quickly resulting an in frustrating overall experience.
- digitalsushi 9y agoI enjoyed the hell out of it. It was like seeing something familiar from my world, in cake form at a restaurant. I flicked it with my spoon, had a chuckle, and moved on. It's a toy, not a tool.
- laumars 9y ago> It's a toy, not a tool I think it's fair to say it's both because it's the primary navigation tool on a site with a fair amount of linked content (otherwise what's the point in putting content on it if it's not meant to be discovered?) As a toy, I do completely agree with you. As I said in my previous post, I do really like the idea. But as a navigation tool I think there are areas for refinement while retaining the same fun factor.
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- animesh 9y agoI cannot type in Firefox as I have the 'Search for text when you start typing' setting enabled.
- romanovcode 9y agoIf the point of the site is to find clients/recruiters/etc.. then you should scrap this idea. While technically this is somewhat impressive nobody who this site is aimed at will type commands to see your work/cv/etc.. They will just close the tab and move on.
- rampage101 9y agoSad but true. I spent some time building a personal site mostly for fun, but also to get back into industry. Many companies view a blog as a liability... better off studying for a few months to get some extra certifications.
- pattle 9y agoWhat do you mean by they view a blog as a liability?
- g00gler 9y agoI'm interested in hearing his reasoning, too. Maybe said companies don't want people posting about what they're doing at work or don't want a PR nightmare if the employee says the wrong thing
- matwood 9y agoI think it depends. If you're blogging about technology findings it's fine. If you're blogging about how much you hate <insert politician here>, then yeah companies may see it as a liability.
- flanbiscuit 9y agoI started making my personal site as terminal just like this one and eventually scrapped the idea because it's a terrible experience on mobile, but also it's just gimmicky on desktop and will only be mildly interesting to other devs.
- 1k 9y agoI disagree. There are too many negative comments in this thread. This is an awesome site that will resonate well with clients and recruiters. It has exactly what they looking for and yet presented in such a refreshing way. It show cases your creativity, ambition and dedication to do something like this. Great job!
- rafaqueque 9y agoI understand what others are saying: there's a lot going on at the same time. Getting rid of the effects while typing would be a major plus. I've also done something similar, but way simpler: https://rafael.pt https://rafael.pt
- throwanem 9y agoMy personal site works on a phone.
- giancarlostoro 9y agoI don't mind this but I wonder what it would take to make it so you could SSH to the same domain and make it somewhat interactive. Letting anyone connect with any username (and based on their username allow them to open files personalized to that) I often wonder the effort it would take to make custom shells for people to connect to without giving too much access to a server for personal reasons.
- philjackson 9y agoThe completion doesn't work properly. It's a super fun little project, but, very frustrating to use.
- eih 9y agoPretty neat, but those particle effects are strange for me. Similarly, I've never used yet but Unixstickers has a terminal like interface on their website: https://www.unixstickers.com/terminal https://www.unixstickers.com/terminal You can use it for shopping.
- p4bl0 9y agoIn the same vein, try out https://desfontain.es/ https://desfontain.es/ it's the personal website of a friend and you can navigate it like if you were playing nethack.
- bolololo1 9y agoI like the idea! Finally an interesting website - don't listen to the moaners.
- jeff_vader 9y agoIf you really want to attract attention, use jslinux[1]. [1]: https://bellard.org/jslinux/ https://bellard.org/jslinux/
- seba_dos1 9y agoCross-compiling bash to JavaScript and implementing VT would probably be enough :)
- jlebrech 9y agofor added beauty put it in a DEC vt05 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VT05 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VT05
- yosyp 9y ago$ cd Labs/ $ cd ../Projects <-- this does not work, the cwd remains Labs/
- deusofnull 9y agoThis is pretty awesome. Youre gonna get a lot of attention, what with your resume being on the front page of hackernews...
- cat199 9y agoif you call yourself a hacker, you aren't one.
- MR4D 9y agoAnyone know how to get this to work on an iPhone? No idea how to bring up the keyboard (and it doesn’t happen automatically in case someone asks).
- brianjking 9y agoThis is quite neat!
- AmitJS 9y agoNicely done. You have mentioned ` Daytrader w/ Machine Learning ` How is that going on for you ? Can you guide me on how to get started.