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Fourteen small programs for the terminal: utilities for working inside tmux, a few input and display experiments, and some games and toys. Each name links to its code.

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Utilities

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git-status-dash

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\n\"git-status-dash\n
git-status-dash showing multiple repositories at once
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git-status-dash shows the status of every repository in a folder at a glance — one terminal dashboard for all your work in progress. It's written in Go, with commands for config, themes, and status.

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GitHub Sloth

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\n\"The\n
The PR rollup logic in Rust — status glyphs and age coloring
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GitHub Sloth is a minimalist amber-on-black terminal UI for GitHub PRs, reviews, and checks, written in Rust. It's designed to complement lazygit.

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\n\"tmux-link-grab\n
tmux-link-grab in action
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tmux-link-grab grabs and opens the links scattered across your terminal panes. No mouse, no scrollback hunting.

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Music CLI

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\n\"The\n
The command reference — track management, a radio scheduler, and setup/watcher commands
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Music CLI manages the audio that powers music.tools.ejfox.com and the radio — list, move, upload, convert, and tag tracks straight from the shell. Reads hit Cloudflare R2 directly; writes go through wrangler.

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Robots

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\n\"Robots\n
Robots running in a vulpes-themed terminal
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Robots is a live cockpit for every Claude Code agent on the machine, written in Rust. It needs zero instrumentation and works retroactively on sessions that are already running.

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Input and display

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PS5 Tmux

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\n\"PS5\n
PS5 Tmux running in a vulpes-themed terminal
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PS5 Tmux controls tmux with a PS5 DualSense controller. Move between panes with the controller, accept changes with the X button, or hit the middle button to enter dictation mode.

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Talon Sketchybar

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\n\"Talon\n
Talon Sketchybar running in a vulpes-themed terminal
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Talon Sketchybar pushes Talon Voice state into sketchybar — event-driven, zero polling, about 60 lines of Python. It includes a Karabiner double-shift integration.

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showtouch

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\n\"showtouch\n
showtouch displaying a keystroke as full-screen centered ASCII art
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showtouch shows every key you press as large ASCII art on screen, so an audience can follow along during presentations and livestreams. pynput captures the keys and pyfiglet renders them.

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ascii_webcam

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\n\"ascii_webcam\n
ascii_webcam turning a live scene into terminal ASCII
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ascii_webcam shows your webcam as ASCII art in the terminal. It supports customizable cyberpunk 3D scenes, gradient palettes, and Floyd–Steinberg dithering.

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Games and toys

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CLI Ching

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\n\"cli-ching\n
cli-ching — the I Ching oracle in the terminal, with throw history and the coin-toss prompt
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CLI Ching walks you through six coin tosses, builds your I Ching hexagram, and interprets the reading. It keeps a history of past throws.

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CLI Conway

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CLI Conway running in a vulpes-themed terminal
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CLI Conway runs Conway's Game of Life in the terminal. The cells are drawn in braille unicode characters.

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CLI Delta Dojo

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CLI Delta Dojo title screen
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CLI Delta Dojo is a terminal reflex game for training your eye to spot differences. Two values flash up and you call them Different or Same as fast as you can, against the clock.

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CLI Ascii 3D

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\n\"CLI\n
CLI Ascii 3D running in a vulpes-themed terminal
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CLI Ascii 3D renders 3D shapes as ASCII art in the command line.

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CLI AI Chat

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\n\"CLI\n
CLI AI Chat running in a vulpes-themed terminal
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CLI AI Chat is an IRC-style terminal interface for LLM conversations, in the same channel-and-buffer idiom as an IRC client. Vim-style modes and keybindings handle navigation between threads.

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