Hacking the Planet with NotcursesNick Black
Hacking the Planet with Notcurses
by Nick Black · first published 2020
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For those interested in learning more about terminal emulators and character graphics, checkout Nick Black's book Hacking the Planet (with Notcurses): A Guide to TUIs and Character Graphics[1]. While the overall focus of the book is on programming with Notcurses[2], the author shares a wealth of related info and history throughout its pages. [1]…
on “ANSI Escape Codes” ↗For those interested in learning more about terminal emulators and character graphics, checkout Nick Black's book Hacking the Planet (with Notcurses): A Guide to TUIs and Character Graphics[1]. While the overall focus of the book is on programming with Notcurses[2], the author shares a wealth of related info and history throughout its pages. [1]…
on “Anatomy of a Terminal Emulator” ↗See chapter 7 in Hacking the Planet (with Notcurses) for a short treatment of encodings, extended grapheme clusters, etc. https://nick-black.com/htp-notcurses.pdf#page53
on “Why can't you reverse a string with a flag emoji?” ↗For those interested in learning more about terminal emulators and character graphics, checkout Nick Black's book Hacking the Planet (with Notcurses): A Guide to TUIs and Character Graphics[1]. While the overall focus of the book is on programming with Notcurses[2], the author shares a wealth of related info and history throughout its pages. Note…
on “A Guide to the Terminal, Console, and Shell” ↗I remember when I decided I wanted to create a TUI for ROS2, I went through tens of libraries trying to figure out which would be best suited for what I wanted. I remember stumbling upon Nick's book "Hacking the planet with Notcurses". I Loved his attitude and passion, and felt it was fitting for what I was working on. I was always impressed by how clean and consistent Notcurses was, I never found myself wanting for functionality…
on “Notcurses: Blingful character graphics/TUI library” ↗