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Comment by robbomacrae

7 hours ago

Thats awesome. I did something similar (much smaller scale) for Claude Code/Pi to show how much it's working https://github.com/robdmac/flow

But this ASCII Art reminds me of my original desire to have something for each server I SSH into to help me keep a mental map of where I am. I'm not SSH'ing into servers anymore but if I was, I'd totally be trying to remake these scenes on the terminal!

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conesus  6 hours ago

Flow is gorgeous and fits this ascii art theme beautifully. I've installed it and have lots of changes I'd like to make. Are you open to PRs or should I maintain my own fork without expectation of upstreaming anything?

Examples of changes I'd like to see:

    1. I want a decay on the flame, so on every state change, the flame slowly works its way back down to a base rate, say at 2 minutes. That would imply that a strong fire is a recently changed state, while a decayed flame is a stale state that hasn't changed in a while.
    2. Automatic choosing of a different animation on every open. I run half a dozen to a dozen agents on a single terminal window (full screened on a 27" monitor) and I already built a way to distinguish sessions from other other with my pre-plugin psuedoterminal crabigator and I'd like to do the same for these animations. Basically a way to distinguish sessions from other other.
    3. More so than just changing animations, I'd like to have a random palette chosen per-animation, so there's multiple flames, but there's the purple-esque flames, the blue-esque flames, the red ones, the orange ones, the yellow ones, and so on.
    4. I'd like a way to integrate the plugin into crabigator so its takes a single section instead of being full width.

Regardless, this is a beautiful mod, reminds me of the type of MUD hacking in the early-to-mid 90s that I used to love as a child, and I'm going to be stealing/integrating this into my workflows immediately.

BTW, I used to have different ASCII art images on each of my servers. Here's a sampling:

https://github.com/samuelclay/NewsBlur/blob/main/ansible/rol... https://github.com/samuelclay/NewsBlur/blob/main/ansible/rol... https://github.com/samuelclay/NewsBlur/blob/main/ansible/rol...

  • robbomacrae  3 hours ago

    Thank you! Love that you did the server art!

    I'm absolutely open to PR's. I tried to make it easy to add your own scenes. It's also MIT so feel free to take it and run with it..

    1. Yep that makes sense. I haven't really tuned the phase progression much and it def needs a lot of work. For the rocket themes for now they are progressive only until they end but id like to give them the possibility of a bumpy ride so to speak.

    2. Yep definitely. Going back to the original server idea.. I'd say it would be even necessary to be able to have a config to make one session have a specific (or random) scene.

    3. Yes! I was just thinking about color palettes. ie company or flag colors.

    4. https://github.com/samuelclay/crabigator https://drinkcrabigator.com to save others looking it up like I did. Looks great go for it!

    I've got some different features in progression so feel free to throw these up as PR's. Otherwise I might get to the config or color palette one day.

    Thanks!