Show HN: Sping – An HTTP/TCP latency tool that's easy on the eye (opens in new tab)

This idea is also very useful for host/dig DNS queries which I would also often previously do a one-liner for, but recently had a gpt script me a tool for it:

https://gist.github.com/jgbrwn/7dd4b262c544f750cb0291161b2ec...

Consider rewriting the program in Go, then you’ll have a statically linked binary that’s much easier to install (less dependencies) and will be much faster too.

I would add a link to the gitlab to the page also, clicking the LICENCE brings me to the source code but other than that there did not seem to be a link .

Out of curiosity, did you use LLM's to code this? My gut feeling tells me at minimum the readme was written by one, or maybe it's normal to use emojis everywhere :-) Also I am not meaning to judge it as good or bad, I'm just curious.

I think one thing that LLM's and coding agents enables, is creating these customised solution which solve a specific problem, in a specific way. Some might consider it wasteful. I bet many thinks your effort would have been better spent contributing to one of the existing ones instead of doing yet another tool, but I find fascinating that we can finally tell our computers what we need and the will do it.

If you hand-wrote everything, then apologies for the unrelated rant :-)

(i.e. # HTTP monitoring with interactive UI sping google.com )

  sping johnqdeveloper.com     
  Usage: sping [OPTIONS] URL
  Try 'sping --help' for help.
  ╭─ Error ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╮
  │ Invalid value for '--palette': <ColorPalette.SUNSET:   'sunset'> is not one of │
  │ 'sunset', 'ocean', 'forest', 'volcano', 'galaxy', 'arctic', 'neon',          │
  │ 'monochrome'.                                                                  │
  ╰──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╯