u/Blacknon

Hello. I built twatch, a tool that lets you rewind and diff terminal UI screens.

Demo: twatch htop

• browse previous screen states
• highlight changed cells
• filter history
• export a frame as ANSI text or SVG
• batch mode can crop parts of a TUI screen

I’m exploring whether this is useful as a debugging/inspection tool for TUI apps. Feedback is welcome.

Hello,

I'm Japanese, and during Golden Week I had some time off work. So I made an experimental tool called baeru.

baeru wraps existing TUI/CLI applications in a passthrough PTY and adds a presentation/input layer around them, without patching or forking the target application.

Current features include:

• rewriting ANSI SGR colors for TUI apps
• command-specific key remapping
• startup reveal / noisy animation effects
• inline animation for ordinary CLI output
• profile-based behavior via baeru.yml

For example, in the demo I wrapped htop, changed its color theme to pink, and added a noisy startup reveal effect.

Example usage:

baeru -- htop  
baeru -- lazygit  
baeru --backend cli -- git status  

https://github.com/blacknon/baeru