alt Hacker NewsAstroterm: A Planetarium for Your Terminal
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Very, very distantly related to the topic, but it reminded me of the Cosmo Phase watch from Casio (CGW-50), released in the 80s [0]
Having stars and planets at your fingertips...
Regardless of whether it’s useful or not, the level of creative intelligence is impressive
It's pretty refreshing to see such a nice and readable README. vibe coders, please take notes.
Well done, any plans to show other space objects too? Like the ISS or Starlink? One thing I ran into when tracking satellites in the browser: CelesTrak's TLE files skip satellites with six-digit catalog numbers, which is most of what's been launched lately, so new Starlinks just weren't there. Their CSV files have them tho.
Could this be set up as dynamic motd in the terminal?
Similar concept but for a social network: gno.world
ASCII-rendered visuals looks pretty decent.
After reading the first sentence, I cannot stop imagining some Rust people cannot stop salivating at the prospect to a version saying, "written in Rust", "safe", etc. ~
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Nice to combine with the Astrological CPU Scheduler: https://github.com/zampierilucas/scx_horoscope