u/Bl4ckBe4rIt

Wanted to share something with you, a place that became an essential addition to my unix setup.

ssh late.sh

That's it :) No passwords, no OAuth, no accounts. Your SSH key is your identity.

A place to take a break between your work, chat with people around the globe, listen to some music, play a game, water your bonsai. All in your terminal.

License: FSL-1.1-MIT.
Code: https://github.com/mpiorowski/late-sh
Landing: https://late.sh
Demo: https://late.sh/play

What's inside?

Imagine sitting at the poker table for a few minutes between your coding sessions, lofi music in the background, chat with people all around the globe, throwing some chips... that's us!

Quick taste of what makes it feel cozy: Ctrl+] opens an icon picker with emoji, nerd-font glyphs, and kaomoji. Image uploads render as colored terminal cells, so previews show up inline in an terminal (no kitty/sixel needed). Shared news get a unique auto-generated ASCII banner on their news card.

• Games with sweet ASCII, leaderboards, badges, streaks: 2048, tetris, snake, sudoku, nonograms, minesweeper, solitaire. Fully playable poker and blackjack! Chess / Tron / battleships coming soon!
• Live interactive artboard where everyone can draw whatever they want. Daily and monthly snapshots, fresh board every month. Viewable without even logging in: https://late.sh/gallery (almost entirely built by contributors!)
• Chat is a beast: replies, reactions, MARKDOWN, icon picker, mentions, favorite rooms, fully private rooms, DMs, public topic rooms you can spin up with /public #room. The input itself is a beast too: multiline, vim/emacs keys, arrow navigation.
• News feed with auto URL processing. Paste any link (article, YouTube, blog post, whatever) and the app extracts the title, summary, and even renders the cover image as ASCII art into a news card that shows up for everyone.
• Private RSS/Atom inbox per user. Subscribe to your feeds, read them in the TUI, share the good ones into the global News when something deserves a wider audience.
• Profiles + Showcase. Set up your profile with where you're from and a bit about yourself, then drop your projects into the Showcase feed (title, URL, tags, description). Other people see them in the feed and on your profile page.
• Work profiles with auto-generated public pages. Set your status (open / casual / not-looking), headline, location, links, skills, summary. Each profile gets its own public web page with a random slug, bundled with your bio and showcases. So you can use late.sh/profiles as your hiring/portfolio surface too.
• Bonsai tree on your dashboard that grows while you're connected. Lose your daily streak and it withers. Water it, trim its branches, cut to change shape.
• Music with 600+ tracks. Voting system for the next 1h session (lofi, ambient, classical, jazz). You can control playback from inside the TUI.

Did I mention 50+ themes? :)

Hop in, check it out, and maybe stay for longer ;)

ssh late.sh

That's it :) No passwords, no OAuth, no accounts. Your SSH key is your identity.

A place to take a break between coding sessions: chat with people around the globe, listen to some music, play a game, water your bonsai. All in your terminal.

License: FSL-1.1-MIT.

Code: https://github.com/mpiorowski/late-sh
Landing: https://late.sh
Demo: https://late.sh/play

What's inside?

Imagine sitting at the poker table for a few minutes between your coding sessions, lofi music in the background, chat with people all around the globe, and just throw some chips....thats us!

• Games with sweet ASCII, leaderboards, badges, streaks: 2048, tetris, sudoku, nonograms, minesweeper, solitaire. First multiplayer game is HERE :) Hop on a round of blackjack! Poker next.
• Live interactive artboard where everyone can draw whatever they want. Daily and monthly snapshots, fresh board every month. Viewable without even logging in: https://late.sh/gallery (almost entirely built by contributors!)
• Chat is a beast: replies, reactions, MARKDOWN, icon picker, mentions, favorite rooms, fully private rooms, DMs, public topic rooms you can spin up with /public #room. The input itself is a beast too: multiline, vim/emacs keys, arrow navigation.
• News feed with auto URL processing. Paste any link (article, YouTube, blog post, whatever) and the app extracts the title, summary, and even renders the cover image as ASCII art into a news card that shows up for everyone.
• Profiles + Showcase. Set up your profile with where you're from and a bit about yourself, then drop your projects into the Showcase feed (title, URL, tags, description). Other people see them in the feed and on your profile page.
• Work profiles with auto-generated public pages. Set your status (open / casual / not-looking), headline, location, links, skills, summary. Each profile gets its own public web page with a random slug, bundled with your bio and showcases. So you can use late.sh/profiles as your hiring/portfolio surface too.
• Bonsai tree on your dashboard that grows while you're connected. Lose your daily streak and it withers. Water it, trim its branches, cut to change shape.
• Music with 400+ tracks. Voting system for the next 1h session (lofi, ambient, classical, jazz). You can control playback from inside the TUI.

Feel free to hop in and relax! :) A lot of awesome things coming! We are open for contributions!

Just wanted to give an update on our Clubhouse!

ssh late.sh

Quick reminder of what we are. A place for devs to take a break, chill, chat, listen to music and play some games. All via a simple ssh - no passwords, no OAuth, no accounts, your ssh key is your identity.

Since the last post it really exploded :) A lot of new people joined, stayed, and what's even more impressive, started contributing! :)

One of the biggest new features we've added is the new live interactive artboard, where everyone can draw whatever they want. We do daily and monthly snapshots with a fresh board every month. You can view it without even logging in:

https://late.sh/gallery

Next big news - the code is now open (source-available, FSL-1.1-MIT):

https://github.com/mpiorowski/late-sh

Best idea ever, so many people started contributing (artboard is almost entirely by contributors ;p). ~30 new themes? Contributor. Icon picker? Yeah, you guessed it ;p

What else? So much stuff.....

• new bonsai care, where you have to trim branches every day
• profiles! Show where you're from, tell us a bit about yourself, share your projects in a dedicated show room
• an astonishing amount of chat features: replies, reactions, MARKDOWN, icon picker, favorite rooms, fully private rooms and so much more
• the input is a beast in itself, multilines, vim / emacs keys, arrow navigation.....
• a lot of QoL for all the games we have: 2048, tetris, sudoku, nonograms, minesweeper, solitaire
• 400 new tracks to vibe to!
• a CLI with native ssh support and a working windows version

Probably forgot a bunch of stuff, so just come and see! :)

First multiplayer game is ALMOST HERE :)

Just wanted to give an update on our Clubhouse!

ssh late.sh

Fast reminder of what we are. A place for devs to take a break, chill, chat, listen to music and play some games. All via a simple `ssh` - no passwords. no OAuth, no accounts, your ssh key is your identity.

Since the last post it really exploded :) A lot of new people joined, stayed and what's even more impressive, started contributing! :)

One of the biggest new feature we've added since then is the new, live, interactive artboard, where everyone can create whatever they want. We do daily and monthly snapshots with a new board every month. You can view it without even logging here:

https://late.sh/gallery

Next big news is that the code is now open (source-available, FSL-1.1-MIT): https://github.com/mpiorowski/late-sh

This was the best idea ever, so many people started contributing (artboard is almost entirely by contributor ;p). ~22 new themes? Contributor. New chat reaction? Yeah, you've guessed it ;p

What else? So much stuff.....

- new bonsai care, where you need to cut branches everyday
- profiles! Show us where are you from, tell us a little bit about yourselves, share your projects in a dedicated show room.
- an astonishing amount of chat features, replies, reactions, MARKDOWN, icon picker, favorites rooms, fully private rooms and so much more
- input is a beast in itself, mutinies, vim / emacs keys, arrow navigation.....
- a lot of QoL for all the games we have: 2048, tetris, sudoku, nonograms, minesweeper, solitaire
- 400 new tracks to vibe to!
- cli with native ssh support and a working windows version

Probably forgot about a lot of stuff, so just come and see! :)

First multiplayer game is ALMOST HERE :)

Just wanted to give an update on our Clubhouse!

ssh late.sh

Fast reminder of what we are. A place for devs to take a break, chill, chat, listen to music and play some games. All via a simple `ssh` - no passwords. no OAuth, no accounts, your ssh key is your identity.

Since the last post it really exploded :) A lot of new people joined, stayed and what's even more impressive, started contributing! :)

One of the biggest new feature we've added since then is the new, live, interactive artboard, where everyone can create whatever they want. We do daily and monthly snapshots with a new board every month. You can view it without even logging here:

https://late.sh/gallery

Next big news is that the code is now open (source-available, FSL-1.1-MIT): https://github.com/mpiorowski/late-sh

This was the best idea ever, so many people started contributing (artboard is almost entirely by contributor ;p). ~22 new themes? Contributor. New chat reaction? Yeah, you've guessed it ;p

What else? So much stuff.....

- new bonsai care, where you need to cut branches everyday
- profiles! Show us where are you from, tell us a little bit about yourselve, share your projects in a dedicated show room.
- an astonishing amount of chat features, replies, reactions, MARKDOWN, icon picker, favorites rooms, fully private rooms and so much more
- input is a beast in itself, multinies, vim / emacs keys, arrow navigation.....
- a lot of QoL for all the games we have: 2048, tetris, sudoku, nonograms, minesweeper, solitaire
- 400 new tracks to vibe to!
- cli with native ssh support and a working windows version

Probably forgot about a lot of stuff, so just come and see! :)

First multiplayer game is ALMOST HERE :)