Astroterm: A Planetarium for Your Terminal

(github.com)

147 points | by nvmdbljstm 2 days ago

9 comments

  • ricq 3 hours ago
    Nice to combine with the Astrological CPU Scheduler: https://github.com/zampierilucas/scx_horoscope
  • isolli 1 hour ago
    Very, very distantly related to the topic, but it reminded me of the Cosmo Phase watch from Casio (CGW-50), released in the 80s [0]

    Having stars and planets at your fingertips...

    [0] https://www.casio.com/us/watches/50th/Heritage/1980s/

  • nvmdbljstm 2 days ago
    Regardless of whether it’s useful or not, the level of creative intelligence is impressive
    • esperent 6 hours ago
      I think these kind of projects are great for stress testing terminal performance as well.
    • Yevini 3 hours ago
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  • S0y 5 hours ago
    It's pretty refreshing to see such a nice and readable README. vibe coders, please take notes.
    • darkwater 3 hours ago
      Saving one memory...

      I took note of your suggestion, next time I will write the README in the voice of da-luce/astroterm README.

    • hnlmorg 3 hours ago
      Seems pretty average to me. What is it you specifically like?

      (Curious as someone who struggles to write readmes)

      • dspillett 1 minute ago
        I'm not the original commenter you replied to, but I have thoughts that might be relevant. These things are quite subjective so some people will disagree that this is a good example, or with what I'm about to say so have a punch of salt at the ready…

        I think "pretty average" is the thing to strive for in a README. The right balance of detailed but concise, not overly festooned with unnecessary verbiage like a stereotypical recipe page, a simple "what is it", "more detail on features / example use", "how to install" structure.

        Of course it gets harder to find that balance as the size and scope of a project expands, you have to become judicious with cutting things out and excising them to extended documentation instead of everything being in the README. For a thing this size everything is close to the right balance if you word+arrange it right.

        If this one is AI written (there are signs, but those are things humans have long done which is why AIs copy them) it has been human edited rather than just thrown up as-is.

  • nextliftoff 1 hour ago
    Well done, any plans to show other space objects too? Like the ISS or Starlink? One thing I ran into when tracking satellites in the browser: CelesTrak's TLE files skip satellites with six-digit catalog numbers, which is most of what's been launched lately, so new Starlinks just weren't there. Their CSV files have them tho.
  • superkickstart 2 hours ago
    Could this be set up as dynamic motd in the terminal?
  • jaekwon 6 hours ago
    Similar concept but for a social network: gno.world
  • slybot 4 hours ago
    ASCII-rendered visuals looks pretty decent.

    After reading the first sentence, I cannot stop imagining some Rust people cannot stop salivating at the prospect to a version saying, "written in Rust", "safe", etc. ~

    • dotancohen 4 hours ago
      Not really. One example image has Capella, Rigel, and Sirius clearly marked. But even with that, I can not make out Orion, probably the most recognizable constellation behind the big dipper.

      I would absolutely love a terminal Stellarium alternative, but this isn't it.

  • hyperficial_ 7 hours ago
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