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poetaman / arttime

arttime

arttime is a CLI application that blends beauty of ASCII / text art with functionality of clock / timer / pattern-based time manager in terminal ⏰

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What it is

arttime is a CLI application that blends beauty of ASCII / text art with functionality of clock / timer / pattern-based time manager in terminal ⏰

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This week on Hacker News

Nov 7–Nov 14 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/14/2026, 5:04:57 PM UTC.

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Mentions over time

HN mentions by month9 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2022-12-17 09:14:19 UTC to 2024-01-23 06:45:58 UTC.

02462022-12-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 1 submissions, 0 commentsDec 20222023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-02-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2023-02-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-03-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2023-03-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-04-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 1 submissions, 0 comments2023-04-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-05-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2023-05-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-06-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2023-06-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-07-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 commentsJun 20232023-07-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-08-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2023-08-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-09-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2023-09-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-10-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2023-10-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-11-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2023-11-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-12-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2023-12-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-02-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 7 mentions; 2 submissions, 5 commentsJan 2024

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Dec 20222022-12-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC110
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Feb 20232023-02-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-03-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Mar 20232023-03-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-04-01 00:00:00 UTC110
Apr 20232023-04-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-05-01 00:00:00 UTC000
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Jun 20232023-06-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-07-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Jul 20232023-07-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-08-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Aug 20232023-08-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-09-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Sep 20232023-09-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-10-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Oct 20232023-10-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-11-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Nov 20232023-11-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-12-01 00:00:00 UTC000
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Jan 20242024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-02-01 00:00:00 UTC725

What Hacker News says

9 sources
reportaman·Jan 23, 2024Submission

Show HN: 2024 arttime feeder challenge. Code feeder in language of choice, share

arttime is a terminal application that blends beauty of text-art with functionality of clock, timer, and pattern-based time manager. One can also display customized dynamic feed of information like weather, news, stocks, system metrics and etc. The above GIF shows that a feeder can be used to display weather in arttime. Links: 1. [v2.3.0 release notes](https://github.com/poetaman/arttime/releases/tag/v2.3.0) 2. [arttime_2.3.0-1_all.deb](https://github.com/poetaman/arttime/releases/download/v2.3.0...) package 3. [arttime man txt](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/poetaman/arttime/main/shar...) 4. [arttime main page](https://github.com/poetaman/arttime) Please read sections ORCHESTRATING and CONTRIBUTING (which has a software spec) in [arttime man txt](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/poetaman/arttime/main/shar...). to understand how to wr
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ite custom information feeders. They can be written in any language, and should be quite simple. Please get in touch if you write something of common interest. Link to such feeders will get added to arttime's page, and best ones will get special mention. Here's an example that shows how line of text under art can be remotely updated to show "Hello World": ``` $ printf 'MHello World\n' >/path/to/some/fifo/arttime/is/listening ```
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reportaman·Jan 23, 2024
arttime is a terminal application that blends beauty of text-art with functionality of clock, timer, and pattern-based time manager. One can also display customized dynamic feed of information like weather, news, stocks, system metrics and etc. The above GIF shows that a feeder can be used to display weather in arttime. Links: 1. [v2.3.0 release notes](https://github.com/poetaman/arttime/releases/tag/v2.3.0) 2. [arttime_2.3.0-1_all.deb](https://github.com/poetaman/arttime/releases/download/v2.3.0...) package 3. [arttime man txt](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/poetaman/arttime/main/shar...) 4. [arttime main page](https://github.com/poetaman/arttime) Please read sections ORCHESTRATING and CONTRIBUTING (which has a software spec) in [arttime man txt](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/poetaman/arttime/main/shar...). to understand how to wr
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ite custom information feeders. They can be written in any language, and should be quite simple. Please get in touch if you write something of common interest. Link to such feeders will get added to arttime's page, and best ones will get special mention. Here's an example that shows how line of text under art can be remotely updated to show "Hello World": ``` $ printf 'MHello World\n' >/path/to/some/fifo/arttime/is/listening ```
In 2024 arttime feeder challenge. Code a feeder in language of choice and share
reportaman·Jan 22, 2024
v2.3.0 of arttime enables silent remote updates for exciting information feeders, adds illustrative manpage, and new .deb package. One can write a customized information feeder in language of choice. Please feel free to share if you write something of value to others, a link to your work will be added to arttime's page. Links: 1. arttime release: https://github.com/poetaman/arttime/releases/tag/v2.3.0 2. Man page's .txt: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/poetaman/arttime/main/shar... 3. `$ arttime -m` 4. Supplementary wiki: https://github.com/poetaman/arttime/wiki
In Display customized dynamic feeds like news, weather, stocks, system metrics, ++
reportaman·Jan 22, 2024
v2.3.0 of arttime enables silent remote updates for exciting information feeders, adds illustrative manpage, and new .deb package. One can write a customized information feeder in language of choice. Please feel free to share if you write something of value to others, a link to your work will be added to arttime's page. Links: 1. arttime release: https://github.com/poetaman/arttime/releases/tag/v2.3.0 2. Man page's .txt: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/poetaman/arttime/main/shar... 3. `$ arttime -m` 4. Supplementary wiki: https://github.com/poetaman/arttime/wiki
In Display customized dynamic feeds like stocks, weather, news, system metrics, etc
reportaman·Jan 8, 2024
So! I developed and published a software https://github.com/poetaman/arttime. Thinking it would be beneficial for users to be able to install it from homebrew, I published a package on that platform. Recently, I realized that there is problem. Unlike when a user runs install.sh from arttime's cloned GitHub repository, a user installing from homebrew doesn't get a crucial installation note. The note asks users to take a few steps before using the software, so it runs correctly at their end. The only installation message homebrew's installer print from developer is called "caveats". But they won't let me add a note for new users to take a crucial step before trying to run arttime, because of a legalism of what "caveats" stand for in homebrew's lingo. They are not open to other kinds of installation notes either. The lead of Homebrew stepped
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in and steered the conversation to irrationality. Talking of his 15 years of experience and what not instead of seeing it from users and developer experience perspective. I requested them to remove my software till a satisfying solution is found. Then they started using the word "law", and because it is not written in law, they won't remove my software. And I have been told to add some bloat code in my application to notify the users at run time to update their computer settings. This is definitely one instance where open source software publishing platforms have failed us. An open source developer should have freedom to stop publishing a software from a platform that is forcing them to add bloat code.
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