Show HN: Cast.sh An adorable instance of your terminal in the browser (opens in new tab)

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23 pointsstenioaraujo6y ago17 comments

17 comments

Suggestion: Add an example video so we can see what this actually does.

It is very simple: When you run it it will create a web server (listening on port 5000) by default; when you visit that server with your browser you'll get a terminal to your system (the same terminal / user that was used to originally run the server).

Jaxan6y ago

Then what is adorable about it? I was imagining cute animals would appear in the terminal. This is not the case?

thegabez6y ago

Come up with an interesting idea, spend n number of days working on idea, get to the front page of hackernews, have thousands of eyeballs on your thing...Spend 0 time on the readme and have everyone take a half second glance, not know what the thing is or does and move their attention else where. Let this be a lesson to everyone to spend some time on your readme's...https://github.com/matiassingers/awesome-readme

masukomi6y ago

Humorous Readme Driven Development Lightning talk by Matt Parker. Well worth the watch. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=23xzRCoDZf4

pensatoio6y ago

How is this on the front page with basically no README and no screenshots or video?

klyrs6y ago

It says adorable and doesn't show the goods. Nerdrage... rising!

mcphage6y ago

What do you mean by adorable?

tyingq6y ago

Calling it adorable without a front and center screenshot is an odd choice.

kaycebasques6y ago

I visited the README solely because “adorable” was a provocative word and I wanted to see a screenshot of said adorableness. Give the people what they want!

emj6y ago

My interpretation was that it was simple, code is easy to read and it does one simple thing.

This launches a new instance of a command of your choosing for every new connection. That does not really seem like casting to me more like a remote shell, but it is adorable in some ways.

xyzal6y ago

I'm sure it is an interesting engineering exercise, but I struggle to think of a situation where I would fire a browser to use the terminal instead of just opening a terminal.

c226y ago

The name might be a hint as to the utility. If you wanted to display your terminal on your massive television using, say, Chromecast, you wouldn't have the option, but you can "cast" a browser window.

spapas826y ago

I guess you could run the program in one of your private servers then do a reverse proxy to that from a public server. Voila: Easy terminal access to your private servers from everywhere!

Not a good idea from a security standpoint though...

johnisgood6y ago

Yeah, I bet there are Electron-based terminals out there anyways.

nirui6y ago

> <link rel="stylesheet" href="https://unpkg.com/xterm@3.6.0/dist/xterm.css" />

Just a heads up, xtermjs has now updated to version 4[1]. You might want to consider for an upgrade.

1: https://github.com/xtermjs/xterm.js/releases

johnisgood6y ago

"Show HN" without a proper README or any screenshots of whatever that is supposedly adorable.

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17 comments

jonny3836y ago

Suggestion: Add an example video so we can see what this actually does.

spapas826y ago

Jaxan6y ago

Then what is adorable about it? I was imagining cute animals would appear in the terminal. This is not the case?

thegabez6y ago

masukomi6y ago

Humorous Readme Driven Development Lightning talk by Matt Parker. Well worth the watch. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=23xzRCoDZf4

pensatoio6y ago

How is this on the front page with basically no README and no screenshots or video?

klyrs6y ago

It says adorable and doesn't show the goods. Nerdrage... rising!

mcphage6y ago

What do you mean by adorable?

tyingq6y ago

Calling it adorable without a front and center screenshot is an odd choice.

kaycebasques6y ago

I visited the README solely because “adorable” was a provocative word and I wanted to see a screenshot of said adorableness. Give the people what they want!

emj6y ago

My interpretation was that it was simple, code is easy to read and it does one simple thing.

This launches a new instance of a command of your choosing for every new connection. That does not really seem like casting to me more like a remote shell, but it is adorable in some ways.

xyzal6y ago

I'm sure it is an interesting engineering exercise, but I struggle to think of a situation where I would fire a browser to use the terminal instead of just opening a terminal.

c226y ago

spapas826y ago

I guess you could run the program in one of your private servers then do a reverse proxy to that from a public server. Voila: Easy terminal access to your private servers from everywhere!

Not a good idea from a security standpoint though...

johnisgood6y ago

Yeah, I bet there are Electron-based terminals out there anyways.

nirui6y ago

> <link rel="stylesheet" href="https://unpkg.com/xterm@3.6.0/dist/xterm.css" />

Just a heads up, xtermjs has now updated to version 4[1]. You might want to consider for an upgrade.

1: https://github.com/xtermjs/xterm.js/releases

johnisgood6y ago

"Show HN" without a proper README or any screenshots of whatever that is supposedly adorable.

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse