Just redesigned my personal site with a TTY-style interface

A middleground might be to make the commands clickable, so that clicking on "help" automatically inserts and runs it, and clicking on any of the commands in "help" does the same. You would still frustrate users who would have to keep scrolling up to reach the navigation, but it would make it usable without a keyboard.

(you can grab a template here https://github.com/tiulpin/kotlin-cv.js)

Every time you suggest commands (like "help"), let the user click them, and the UI responds as if they typed it and hit enter.

Every command that can be typed/clicked can be highlighted a green color or something.

The title for "Help" isn't a terminal font, it jumps out as misplaced.

Also, suggestion is to add some hidden easter egg commands. I was surprised `whoami` worked, but then I saw it in `help` and was sad.

But anyway:

  abdisaDev@chillSpot:~$ whoami
  visitor@linux_x86_64-Europe_London
  abdisaDev@chillSpot:~$

(Historical note: pixels were bigger, in 2003. Feel free to zoom in / increase the text size.)

  Link: preload
  Link: preload

As others mentioned, if you use this to attract clients or recruiters, I recommend adding a version for non-technical folks.

As a nerd I'd love to see some more colors like in the themes you can set using Prezto or Oh-My-ZSH (reference: https://github.com/sorin-ionescu/prezto?tab=readme-ov-file#t...).

For the projects I think some click function to open an ncurses-like modal would be cool :)

Another idea: what about adding a light mode?

P.S.: I would also add `rm -rf` and return something like "nice try ^_^"

I thought 1920x1080 was acceptable on a laptop :(

Possible past discussions:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28797535

can we get a dump of the hacker news archive?

We did something similar for our company website (link in my profile if you’re interested). It started out as more of a TTY but eventually had to find a middle ground for reproducible pages. We didn't really care much for SEO but I wanted to see if there was a way to deliver consistent content while maintaining that style.

Just a small note: It would be even better if the projects in the "Projects" section were clickable and led to their details.

I recently put a minor terminal-ish toy on my personal site https://rayjseth.io/ as an excuse to play with the infra to build/deploy go-wasm+Next in Vercel.

Always feel like those labor of love tangent projects are the best place to grow new skills :)

Anyway, fun UI. I was a little less impressed by the 'projects' page, I would have loved being able to visit the projects.

https://con.rs (a refactor, limited functionality) https://blog.con.rs/series/#mash (posts related to the saga of development, recently revived!)

Also stealing all these ideas from the comment thread on how to improve it :)

It's not really useful, just fun (for me)

It’s fun to put together nonstandard interfaces. I had the idea of streaming in text like you were connected by an old modem to a remote system. Never experienced it myself, as I am not old enough, but I found the idea aesthetically pleasing.

also:

  abdisaDev@chillSpot:~$ whoami
  visitor@linux_aarch64-CET

err

Meanwhile, sacc/cgo, gem.awk, offpunk, just work like a terminal prompt under an atom n270 netbook.

  abdisaDev@chillSpot:~$ whoami
  visitor@macintel-America_New_York