Hey if there's significant overlap, what about coming and collab-ing on https://github.com/joshka/tui-markdown? (crate + cli, rust / ratatui / crossterm based)

Naming the service for this named clawed would be a great irony :D

I made the "Aardvark Blue" a while back[1] to solve some of the problems that most color schemes have. The goal of this theme is that:

- colors are fairly natural

- background and black are distinct

- grays are naturally ordered avoiding full black

- light and dark colors are distinct from each other

- all colors look good on background, black, dark gray, gray, white

We use this for all the screenshots on https://ratatui.rs and https://github.com/ratatui/ratatui

It's available from the usual places https://iterm2colorschemes.com/, https://windowsterminalthemes.dev/?theme=Aardvark%20Blue, built in to ghostty, extension for vscode etc.

[1]: https://github.com/mbadolato/iTerm2-Color-Schemes/pull/417

Funny thing, those are not "the usual places" I've ever heard of, and I care somewhat about color schemes. Each of us lives in our own bubble... (my bubble is not iterm2 and not windows)

iterm2colorschemes is a source for various other tools as it ports out to

"Terminal, Konsole, PuTTY, Xresources, XRDB, Remmina, Termite, XFCE, Tilda, FreeBSD VT, Terminator, Kitty, MobaXterm, LXTerminal, Microsoft's Windows Terminal, Visual Studio, Alacritty, Ghostty, and many more."

You may have used data from it without knowing about it.

> You may have used data from it without knowing about it.

Plausible!

Yeah, when I created that repo, it was for me to store iterm themes that I found, and it took off and got ports to, well, pretty much every terminal . I didn't want to rename the repo since it's linked to in so many places. The main link people usually see is iterm2colorschemes.com but I do own terminalthemes.com and should probably just get around to pointing that one to the repo, too

Where are some of the usual places you look?

I don't usually look anywhere, but things I sometimes see pop up in various places are eg https://terminal.sexy/ or https://vimcolorschemes.com/

Ratatui dev here. We love both Bubbletea and Textual (though I'm personally not a huge fan of either Go or Python). They're inspirations for us to make good looking stuff.

If you haven't already seen it, see if you can find some screenshots of the UX for what Splice.com looked like before it pivoted to just being a sample / instrument selling site. It was kind of a git + dropbox type interface for actual DAW projects (Ableton and Fruity were supported IIRC). This was really cool and something that someone should bring back.

pro-tip: link your website root from somewhere near the top of your blog. I think the only direct link is that little purple monster at the bottom of the screen.

https://ratatui.rs/examples/apps/demo/ is pretty much the oldest untouched remnant of code from tui-rs days (pre-ratatui fork in Feb 2023).

Ratatui itself has a lot of much nicer AI generated code in it since then ;)

We've also done a bunch of things to help drive down some of the boilerplate (not all of it mind you - as it's a library, not a framework like other TUI libs)

Hey Will, just wanted to say this looks pretty damn spectacular. No notes. :)

Thanks!

I think there's probably a 5th one that's new-ish. Code isn't where the value is now that agentic tools can whip out a solution to just about anything in no time, so the commentary provides semantic grounding that allows you to navigate generated code easily.

It's kind of like some of the existing reasons, but there is a difference there.