







A toolkit for coding assistants like Claude Code, Cursor, and Codex to help you build UIs that don't suck.
Reverse-engineering Claude's generative UI - then building it for the terminal
Extracting Anthropic's design system from a conversation export and rebuilding generative UI for the terminal.

About the book | A guide to a-Shell
a-Shell is not only a terminal emulator for iOS/iPadOS, but also an environment with a set of useful libraries, where you can run basic Unix commands and other tricky tools.
A Designer’s Guide to the Terminal
You can learn how to use the terminal in a fairly short amount of time. You don’t need a C.S. degree. You don’t need to know how to hack any mainframes.

Terminal DAW Does It In Style
As any Linux chat room or forum will tell you, the most powerful tool to any Linux user is a terminal emulator. Just about every program under the sun has a command line alternative, be it CAD, not…

Ratatui
Ratatui: Cook up delicious terminal user interfaces in Rust - the fast and lightweight TUI library trusted by developers

cmux - The terminal built for multitasking
Free and open source macOS terminal for AI coding agents. Works with Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode, Gemini CLI, Kiro, Aider, and any CLI tool.
Terminal Apps need a DOM | C1
agent-tui runs terminal programs on a PTY and exposes the rendered screen as text or an outline with stable refs. Agents can drive live TUIs, including other AI agents, by snapshotting, pressing keys, and waiting for screen state.

Terminal UI the Easy Way: BubbleTEA
For the past 18 months I've been tinkering with a terminal application that serves as an Algorand node frontend. I had a number of requireme...

GitHub - denisidoro/navi: An interactive cheatsheet tool for the command-line
An interactive cheatsheet tool for the command-line - denisidoro/navi
GitHub - ratatui/ratatui: A Rust crate for cooking up terminal user interfaces (TUIs) 👨🍳🐀 https://ratatui.rs
A Rust crate for cooking up terminal user interfaces (TUIs) 👨🍳🐀 https://ratatui.rs - ratatui/ratatui
Terminal Graph — A spatial development environment for macOS
See everything. Switch nothing. Terminals, browsers, editors, and notes on one infinite canvas with dataflow connections. Native macOS.

Building personal tools by programming

Introducing the Codex app
Introducing the Codex app for macOS—a command center for AI coding and software development with multiple agents, parallel workflows, and long-running tasks.

Toad is a unified experience for AI in the terminal
My startup for terminals wrapped up mid-2025 when the funding ran dry. So I don’t have money, but what I do have are a very particular set of skills. Skills I have acquired over a very long career convincing terminals they are actually GUIs.

I Hated Every Coding Agent, So I Built My Own — Mario Zechner (Pi)
Put Your Coding Agents in Your Pocket
Here's how I use Prompt, Tailscale, tmux, and brrr to access Codex, Claude, and other terminal-based agents from my iPhone.
