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hmokiguess 13 hours ago [-]
I am trying to think of use cases for this but I can’t think of one. It’s sort of cool, but I need help figuring out who’s the audience for this here. Why would someone need or want this?
adamdotdev 9 hours ago [-]
Hey, author here! It’s just for fun :). I think I went too hard on the satire and people thought it was something other than a good time, but it’s just a good time.
thayne 8 hours ago [-]
There will always be people who miss the satire
peesem 8 hours ago [-]
the line between satire and slop grows ever thinner in the age of LLMs
antonvs 5 hours ago [-]
Too late, I've already vibecoded a startup that uses this. It's basically Uber for furries. Valuation is $2bn.
hnlmorg 12 hours ago [-]
I’d wager it’s just a bit of fun. Which is amongst the best reasons to do anything.
hmokiguess 10 hours ago [-]
Oh that part I understood haha which is why I liked it. Was thinking beyond that though, curious if there’s more to it.
brap 12 hours ago [-]
I think the main value is buried in the page, and that is it can also render in the terminal, so it’s sort of React for TUI apps? And they built OpenCode with it?
But then why make console.log your main selling point?
moritzwarhier 11 hours ago [-]
Because console.log is not much different from stdout in JS/Node, I'd guess.
aatd86 6 hours ago [-]
Used to think of building something like this for my frontend framework as a way to display help files.
Didn't get to it though and nowadays, the point is moot with AI producing most of the code. Less of a need for framework -help.
BorisMelnik 12 hours ago [-]
those are my favorite apps
sixtram 11 hours ago [-]
I'm not impressed until I see Doom ported to console.log rendered thru libghostty-vt.
The marketing site is entirely satire :). But the framework works and there’s lots of resources to guide you along if you want to render an app in the console.
grimgrin 10 hours ago [-]
I see this as a novel capability with no reason to think “why?”
It’s a capability, use your imagination.
Cheers, neat idea
mulhoon 12 hours ago [-]
Amazing! But why?
Definitely a fun idea.
baron816 10 hours ago [-]
> But why?
Autism is a hell of a drug
adamdotdev 9 hours ago [-]
I made this, and I am autistic, confirmed!
slj 3 hours ago [-]
Trillions of us
baron816 30 minutes ago [-]
The world would crumble without your weird obsessions
devilsdata 10 hours ago [-]
I opened the console to see if it there was a demo, but alas there wasn't.
adamdotdev 7 hours ago [-]
Wait for real? Should be lots of them!
devilsdata 6 hours ago [-]
I'm on Safari and didn't see one. Possibly something wrong with my setup
nimchimpsky 10 hours ago [-]
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bgitarts 6 hours ago [-]
Use case is to build neat messaging for developers that open the console on your site
andsoitis 13 hours ago [-]
This is cool. Can it also be used out of the box to build regular terminal apps?
CMLewis 9 hours ago [-]
Im guessing so, given any stdout is ≈ console.log
rekttrader 9 hours ago [-]
Claude code uses a similar design principle, nice to see what they’re doing inspired an open build. These opencode folks are slick.
talon8635 6 hours ago [-]
A hammer in search of a nail. Why must everything be overcomplicated?
> The Chinese term for involution, "neijuan", began trending online in 2020 and was initially used by young people to describe the hypercompetitive and often self-defeating pursuit of traditional markers of success. Some of the contexts they used it in included questioning what was the point of working hard to get into a good school if the reward was working 996 hours (9 a.m. to 9 p.m., six days per week) in a tech company? If you were lucky enough to land a job, that is, in an era of high graduate unemployment.
> Though the term is far less commonly used in English, involution comes from a latin term which means "to roll or turn inwards". It was popularised by American cultural anthropologist Clifford Geertz in the 1960s - in relation to his studies of Javanese agriculture - to describe economic or cultural stagnation despite increasing complexity or effort.
> More recently, neijuan has become shorthand in China for the exhausting but also often futile and sometimes self-destructive grind of hyper-competition more broadly.The concept is now also linked to the country’s pivot from property-driven growth to an industrial complex encompassing a third of global manufacturing, which has seen more recources invested without any accompanying increase in returns. It's a race to the bottom.
redanddead 9 hours ago [-]
Have we ever solved this in history? Or do we just die and forget and repeat ad infinitum
The same thing will happen in space
krapp 11 hours ago [-]
I mean - it has a landing page advertising its features. It has an enterprise tier and a "sales team". It has a merch store. It's clearly not meant to be seen as "just for fun."
ctippett 10 hours ago [-]
The enterprise sales page is so generic I wouldn't be surprised if it was just thrown in by whatever LLM created the marketing site.
Or maybe I'm just naive about big enterprise's appetite for a library that guarantees 99.99% console uptime.
redanddead 10 hours ago [-]
So what if it was
ctippett 10 hours ago [-]
Yes
rvz 12 hours ago [-]
Useless but ok.
tamimio 12 hours ago [-]
usecase?
AirMax98 12 hours ago [-]
Job application form would be fun! Lots of companies put little hiring ads for web devs in their console.
rvz 11 hours ago [-]
Why do that when not only an AI agent will find it easily, but AI agents have clearly replaced these web developers?
contrahax 11 hours ago [-]
It looks like the authors also created opencode, and there’s a page about how opencode uses it - so local TUI for agents seems like a primary use case.
But then why make console.log your main selling point?
Way ahead of you boss!
[1] https://github.com/anomalyco
It’s a capability, use your imagination.
Cheers, neat idea
Autism is a hell of a drug
https://www.ink-web.dev/
https://docs.rs/webatui/latest/webatui/
It’s very strange
Over time the available value that could be added should be increasing
> https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/what-i...
> The Chinese term for involution, "neijuan", began trending online in 2020 and was initially used by young people to describe the hypercompetitive and often self-defeating pursuit of traditional markers of success. Some of the contexts they used it in included questioning what was the point of working hard to get into a good school if the reward was working 996 hours (9 a.m. to 9 p.m., six days per week) in a tech company? If you were lucky enough to land a job, that is, in an era of high graduate unemployment.
> Though the term is far less commonly used in English, involution comes from a latin term which means "to roll or turn inwards". It was popularised by American cultural anthropologist Clifford Geertz in the 1960s - in relation to his studies of Javanese agriculture - to describe economic or cultural stagnation despite increasing complexity or effort.
> More recently, neijuan has become shorthand in China for the exhausting but also often futile and sometimes self-destructive grind of hyper-competition more broadly.The concept is now also linked to the country’s pivot from property-driven growth to an industrial complex encompassing a third of global manufacturing, which has seen more recources invested without any accompanying increase in returns. It's a race to the bottom.
The same thing will happen in space
Or maybe I'm just naive about big enterprise's appetite for a library that guarantees 99.99% console uptime.