My projects
Over the years I’ve developed several open source projects.
The majority are written in Python, and they’re typically terminal-based developer tools.
## Posting
Posting is a powerful TUI for working with HTTP APIs. It’s a bit like Postman, except it runs in the terminal and is designed around keyboard-centric workflows.
It’s a feature-rich tool that tries to work for both terminal power-users and newcomers who are more accustomed to modern web UIs.
Written in Python using Textual, a TUI framework I help develop and maintain.
## Elia
Elia is a TUI for interacting with large language models. It can interact with proprietary models such as Claude, ChatGPT, as well as local models like Llama.
Elia has a simple but powerful interface. It uses a SQLite backend to store your conversations locally, keeping your data private.
## Dunk
Dunk makes your diffs beautiful and easy to read.
Just pipe your git diff output into Dunk and it’ll generate a colourful diff like this:
Dunk makes your diffs easy to read. I alias this as `gdd`, which runs `git diff | dunk | less -R`, resulting in a beautiful paged diff.
## Textual’s TextArea widget
I developed Textual’s TextArea widget, which is a multi-line input widget that supports tree-sitter syntax highlighting, wrapping, undo/redo, full mouse support, and much more.
The TextArea widget in action - running completely inside the terminal.
I wrote a blog post about it here, which includes a whole lot of videos of it in action, and covers some of my learnings from that project.
## Ward (archived)
Ward was a test framework I developed for Python. It had a strong focus on readability. Test descriptions were written in plain language rather than function names, and it output very readable diffs when tests failed.
## Autocomplete
I developed textual-autocomplete, which let’s you add autocompletion to your Textual-based TUI apps.
I’m currently (slowly) working on the next version which will be used in Posting.
## Trogon
Trogon was built to solve the problem of learning and discovering features of CLIs.
In just a few lines of code it lets you create a fully interactive TUI which can be used in place of a CLI.
Here’s an example of Trogon converting the feature-rich sqlite-utils CLI into a TUI:
Trogon gives you a sidebar menu containing all of the commands in your CLI. Clicking on an item shows you a form with all of the arguments and options for the selected command.
## Radiant
I developed (but never released) an iOS and Android app using Flutter and the Dart programming language.
