Nice idea. I really wanted to like this but I'm not so sure you've pulled off the execution. Just after a couple of minutes of usage I found so many compatibility differences between that a real shell that navigating around your site became rather frustrating:<p><pre><code> * Tab completion was glitchy
* Deleting characters mid line was glitchy
* Commands don't follow common idioms:
- `ls *` would fail
- `ls -l` would fail
- `ls ` (space char after `ls` command) would fail
* I couldn't select the output from `ls` to paste into the prompt
* Symlinks don't behave link symlinks:
- I cannot `cat` them, have to click with a mouse
- Yet they are still displayed as a file in `ls`
* Common readline shortcuts like ^U don't work
* It barely works on mobile / tablets:
- Scrolling is all over the place
- Screen doesn't resize to use the full screen
- Pain to type commands on mobile keyboard because they auto-capitalise first characters
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Also there seems to be some latency between keypress and the character appearing which makes the experience a little jarring too.<p>Given this is your main way to navigate the site rather than a secondary navigation system, I think it's something you either need to go full out or not bother at all as the novelty of a partially compatible - inspired by Bash - approach wears off very quickly resulting an in frustrating overall experience.
The effects during typing are a little distracting.<p>Do you plan to allow the usual string navigation shortcuts that my hands are apparently unable to type without? (^-a ^-e ^-k, etc.) ?
If the point of the site is to find clients/recruiters/etc.. then you should scrap this idea.<p>While technically this is somewhat impressive nobody who this site is aimed at will type commands to see your work/cv/etc.. They will just close the tab and move on.
I had mine for a while now <a href="http://chandrabhavanasi.com/" rel="nofollow">http://chandrabhavanasi.com/</a> which was based off of jquery and a bunch of hardcoding. I haven't updated it in a while though. The new ones I see once in a while on hn like these are pretty nice though.
<a href="https://vishaltelangre.com/" rel="nofollow">https://vishaltelangre.com/</a><p>Checkout this one. It's built using Elm and is responsive.
problem with the site is that since it only implements a subset of what one would expect from a shell you're constantly inputing things that do not work.
Obligatory for HN: here's a VC whose site is a terminal: <a href="http://neuvc.com/" rel="nofollow">http://neuvc.com/</a>
I liked the whole thing, I would like to see alias like `ll` preconfigured in any good terminal.<p>there are some issues with errors some of the places it doesn't show that.<p>When changing directory (going back to home) it doesn't work and doesn't even show the error.
It'd be interesting to collect stats on all the commands people try to run, and to implement all the ones Linux users are likely to have wired into muscle memory.
Cool site that doesn't run like a dog, I'm impressed! I actually spent a few minutes fiddling around trying to see what I could do on the terminal, can't say that for many other sites.<p>If I could offer one little bit of feedback; some labels on the menu at the top would be kind of handy, a few icons are easy to recognize but some aren't (at least for me).
really "jumpy" when using Firefox Quantum.<p>I found it frustrating, I didn't actually end up seeing anything other than the terminal I tried changing into folders, but it didn't seem to work. Seems broken.
That's awesome!<p>I did a similar design for my tilde.town site: <a href="http://tilde.town/~myles/" rel="nofollow">http://tilde.town/~myles/</a>.
If you really want to attract attention, use jslinux[1].<p>[1]: <a href="https://bellard.org/jslinux/" rel="nofollow">https://bellard.org/jslinux/</a>
Interesting, but Tab completion seems broken:<p><pre><code> cd Foosball/
cat r<tab>
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Selecting text (on Firefox) doesn't seem to work either.
I don't mind this but I wonder what it would take to make it so you could SSH to the same domain and make it somewhat interactive. Letting anyone connect with any username (and based on their username allow them to open files personalized to that) I often wonder the effort it would take to make custom shells for people to connect to without giving too much access to a server for personal reasons.
Reminds me of the XKCD April Fools terminal, whose code is actually available here: <a href="https://github.com/chromakode/xkcdfools" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/chromakode/xkcdfools</a>
I love it!<p>Just one thing though, when hitting tab it seems to be getting the root file and it doesn't work then.<p>E.g
cd Photo-Video
cd Sunrise<tab>
Pretty neat, but those particle effects are strange for me. Similarly, I've never used yet but Unixstickers has a terminal like interface on their website: <a href="https://www.unixstickers.com/terminal" rel="nofollow">https://www.unixstickers.com/terminal</a> You can use it for shopping.
Nice! I made a site where information was primarily exposed via keyboard input (my personal site as well[0]) but I had to make sure mobile worked okay so I made a static version for mobile users.<p>[0]: <a href="http://me.thatcoolidea.com" rel="nofollow">http://me.thatcoolidea.com</a>
I understand what others are saying: there's a lot going on at the same time. Getting rid of the effects while typing would be a major plus.<p>I've also done something similar, but way simpler: <a href="https://rafael.pt" rel="nofollow">https://rafael.pt</a>
In the same vein, try out <a href="https://desfontain.es/" rel="nofollow">https://desfontain.es/</a> it's the personal website of a friend and you can navigate it like if you were playing nethack.
What a cool idea! I was hoping there was going to be a directory of blog posts I could `cat`. I feel like there's some fun potential here if you keep fleshing it out, but of course who has the time?
I enjoyed how many people are quick to criticize that this doesn't work as well as an actual terminal. Because that was definitely, absolutely the point.
"Just one thing" - I'm sure Karl knows this is not fully-fledged, bug-free terminal.<p>Great concept Karl, I think you're a no-brainer hire for anyone who wants to add out-of-the box problem-solving to their team, since you just hacked your personal brand publicity very creatively :)
I built one of these ~7 years ago (I feel old :( ) based on this over here [1], inspired by the XKCD CLI [2].<p>This is certainly prettier!<p>[1]: <a href="https://github.com/tekacs/RCLI" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/tekacs/RCLI</a><p>[2]: <a href="https://uni.xkcd.com/" rel="nofollow">https://uni.xkcd.com/</a>
The concept is cool, but I'd like to point out a couple of issues.<p>The explosion/flashing thing is somewhat annoying. Honestly comes off as childish.<p>Tab-completion _deletes_ word under cursor if no match is found? Why?<p>Why is the terminal built on angular? Seems like an overkill. Partly because I think Angular is a terrible abomination, but in general there's not much going on there to even warrant a framework.
for added beauty put it in a DEC vt05 <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VT05" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VT05</a>