There are many examples of terminal programs that do a good job displaying logs or activity while a process runs. Through deliberate use of things like color, spacing, clever ASCII characters for formatting, etc, when you see them they make you think something like, "ooh, that's pretty!"<p>I see them all the time, but it's always while I'm trying to get something done, so I never make note of noteworthy examples. Then, later, when I'm writing a script of my own I often feel like I'm reinventing wheels because I can't just go look at something that already does a good job. Or sometimes I do remember which program I thought looked nice, but I just don't need a new cloud database right now, so it's not very convenient to recreate the example to look at.<p>So I want to start collecting some good examples of terminal output. I think ergonomics for these sorts of things are very helpful, and usually not very hard/expensive to implement <i>if</i> you don't have to start from scratch. A resource with a handful of good examples would go a long way for me, and I imagine others as well.<p>Which programs log their activity in a way that you find particularly appealing or easy to work with?<p>(And just to clarify, this isn't great interfaces in terminals that I'm talking about (shell prompts, TUIs, etc), or even return values (like the output of a `dig` command). This is when you press Enter, and the program starts to spit out a bunch of text while it works, and that text looks very nice. Examples (not necessarily great examples) would be: running `update` in most package managers, a deployment process like Heroku or Terraform, or a build process like make.)