Become a Hackerman

As a programmer, you need to master a lot of skills, one of which is to look cool. Here are some TTY tools that can help turn you into a Hackerman.

# Cool Retro Term

cool-retro-term is a terminal emulator which mimics the look and feel of the old cathode tube screens. It has been designed to be eye-candy, customizable, and reasonably lightweight.

> Default Amber	$ Default Green

# eDEX-UI

A cross-platform, customizable science fiction terminal emulator with advanced monitoring & touchscreen support.

# Tdfgo

TheDraw font parser and console text renderer.

Some alternative: FIGlet, TOIlet with Xero's fonts collection.

# Btop

Resource monitor that shows usage and stats for processor, memory, disks, network and processes.

# Unimatrix

Python script to simulate the display from "The Matrix" in terminal.

Some alternative: Cmatrix, Neo.

# No more secrets

This project provides a command line tool called nms that recreates the famous data decryption effect seen on screen in the 1992 hacker movie Sneakers. For reference, you can see this effect at 0:35 in this movie clip.

Also included in this project is a program called sneakers that recreates what we see in the above movie clip.

# Genact

Pretend to be busy or waiting for your computer when you should actually be doing real work! Impress people with your insane multitasking skills. Just open a few instances of genact and watch the show. genact has multiple scenes that pretend to be doing something exciting or useful when in reality nothing is happening at all.

# Awesome console services

A curated list of awesome console services (reachable via HTTP, HTTPS and other network protocols).

Notables are:

# MapSCII

MapSCII is a Braille & ASCII world map renderer for your console.

Try it out:

telnet mapscii.me

# Rickrollrc

Bash script which rickrolls your terminal by playing Rick Astley’s “Never Gonna Give You Up”.

To start rickrollin’ immediately:

curl -sL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/keroserene/rickrollrc/master/roll.sh | bash

Here is the clandestine command you can give to your friends 😈:

curl -sL http://bit.ly/10hA8iC | bash