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2026

DMTui: A single-screen terminal companion for in-person D&D

Migrating from Windows to Linux (Omarchy) needed one last piece: a fast, keyboard-first terminal companion for in-person D&D combat.

[tui][python][textual]

3 min

APR 19

Ansizalizer and the quiet TUI renaissance

Zebbeni's ansizalizer converts images to ANSI art in a keyboard-driven TUI — and somewhere between the palette browser and the GIF preview, I was 12 again.

[tui][ansi][retrocomputing]

6 min

APR 8

First look: Gemma 4 E2B — Google's thinking model that runs on your laptop

First impressions running Gemma 4 E2B locally via Ollama — what e2b and quant mean, and why watching it think through 'hi' is delightful.

[ai][local-llm][first-look]

4 min

MAR 18

How PTYs actually work — a deep dive into pseudo-terminals

A practical tour of pseudo-terminals on Unix, from ioctl to job control and why your terminal emulator is never “just a pipe”.

[internals][systems][linux]

1 min