Spark: Sparklines in your shell(git.zx2c4.com)
48 pointsby hskimse9 hours ago6 comments
  • throw-the-towel8 hours ago
    Site seems to be hugged to death. https://web.archive.org/web/20260830100336/https://git.zx2c4...
    • russfink5 hours ago
      The web archive link, made available since the featured page has been hugged to death, has been hugged to death.
    • hskimse7 hours ago
      Or it maybe rejects invalid Referer: header? Try https://git.zx2c4.com/ directly from browser
    • hskimse7 hours ago
      It is available but sometimes got rate limit due to AI crisis
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  • priteau7 hours ago
    I am not sure why this repository last updated in November 2011 is suddenly on the front page?

    Anyway, a better known implementation (in Bash) is probably https://github.com/holman/spark, which was developed by Zach Holman, one of the first GitHub hires.

    • rbanffy6 hours ago
      I was going to suggest using the new 2x4 unicode or Teletext glyphs, but they didn't exist in 2011. Is anything like this included in Linux distros? I couldn't find it in Fedora's or Ubuntu's repos. I guess I'll try my hand at making a new one. Might as well use it as an excuse to learn Rust.
      • mechanicum4 hours ago
        Braille characters would double the horizontal resolution but halve the already limited vertical resolution, which isn’t great for something that’s intended to be displayed inline with text.

        I think Teletext might be even worse. IIRC, it only has three heights for its triangles.

        If you’re interested in multiline plotting with braille characters, Ian Henry’s bytemap for Janet (https://github.com/ianthehenry/bytemap) is worth a look (or my Clojure port: https://github.com/waddie/bytemap.clj).

    • hskimse6 hours ago
      Similar first commit dates in the two repositories, it looks like there must have been some kind of trend around that time ;)

      Anyway, this field has more famous people than anyone can keep track of; I hadn't heard of Zach Holman until just now either. For what it's worth, zx2c4 is also fairly well known for WireGuard.

  • luciandan6 hours ago
    That is so cool, that now I'm brainstorming CLI things to build that need a sparkline. Wonder if Claude Code can learn to use this.
  • bensmoif6 hours ago
    Big up Edward Tufte
  • someothherguyy7 hours ago
    is this some meta commentary on cgit's performance? (site doesn't load)

    see: https://github.com/zx2c4/cgit

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