I used to be a rememberer too with borrowed books, but now I buy used paperbacks and dog ear my pages.

Perhaps https://rhasspy.readthedocs.io/en/latest/

I am in the target audience of "would like to see network activity and debug occasional traffic but totally overwhelmed by termshark." So I appreciate the "what should I click?" thing, and offering weird flows to investigate.

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Some UX bits I noticed after playing around for a few minutes:

- Esc for backwards navigation was not obvious for me. Maybe emphasize that somehow, and/or support Backspace too for backnav?

- Enter on Domains menu item does not work

- don't mention clicking if mouse is not supported. "Select" would be more appropriate

- packets screen is truncated vertically and horizontally. Probably should be scrollable

- "weird stuff" options are numbered 1-5, but pressing those keys has no effect. There's lots of little polish fixes like this.

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And then things I wonder about as a novice user:

- Is it possible to see domain names instead of IP addresses while e.g. looking at packets?

- What does it mean to f stream?

- How do I inspect packets? Especially compressed or encrypted data? This is more a knowledge gap, like "what am I supposed to look for", "what could be in a packet", and I guess involves reverse engineering sometimes, but it's also a tooling question.

Thanks a lot for trying. My experience with packet inspection is similar and that's what resulted in me trying to build a simpler plain language UI companion.

• Back navigation: good call. I'll make "Esc back" more explicit everywhere and add Backspace as an alias for back (and mention it in h help).

• Enter on Domains not working: it should drill down to flows. If you can share your OS/terminal + whether you installed from release vs cargo install, I'll try to reproduce and fix in the next release.

• "Clicking" wording: agreed — mouse isn't supported right now. I'll change Ul copy to say Select (and keep "Enter = drill down").

• Packets screen truncation: yep, needs scrolling/paging. On the list views I already do r/; l'll add page scroll and horizontal handling where it makes sense.

• Numbered weird options: great idea - I'll map 1..9 to jump-select and Enter (or open directly).

• Domain names in packets: yes, I want that. I already collect DNS/SNI/HTTP host hints; next step is showing hostname labels alongside IPs when I have more confident mapping.

• "f stream" definition: I'll clarify it as "Follow stream (reassembled payload)" and add a glossary/help entry.

• Inspecting encrypted/compressed data: totally fair. The tool can't decrypt TLS without keys, but it can make it clearer what's happening (SNI/ ALPN, sizes, timing, resets/retransmits). I'Il improve "Explain" to say what's possible vs not.

Super useful feedback thanks!

All this has been pushed to main. Thanks again!

Another UI question: is there a reason the options are all upper case letters? It took me a minute to even consider why "w" wasn't working.

Sorry that was a miss on my part. I fixed it in the latest main. Will recognize both in the next release.

Awesome, thanks for this, it feels right at my level.

How would you like to navigate it? I'm curious about that design challenge.

Perhaps a "radio" playlist that randomly selects from a genre? Maybe a shuffle weighted towards infrequently played songs? Maybe some graph UI to browse related music and artists?

There are several ways that I discover new music. They are all intentful and do not rely on automatic recommendation or randomness:

- Following the trail of session musicians involved in albums that I like. For example, I've had great pleasure discovering Justin Adams' albums from his work with Robert Plant.

- Following the trail of record producers

- Browsing through albums of a given label that puts out albums I like

- Browsing by geographical area / time period. I love the Radiooooo UI https://app.radiooooo.com/

- Getting specific recommendations / playlists from friends or web people I trust

I use tealdeer, which was my favorite of the few tldr clients I tried: https://github.com/tealdeer-rs/tealdeer

Different tldr clients use different syntax highlighting, and some are faster than others. The main tldr is horrifyingly slow iirc.

I keep htop and some vim buffers open regularly, and I keep some tools open while a work on a project e.g. https://github.com/Canop/bacon.

But everything else is opened as needed. Especially toys like this weather thing.

EDIT - I use a 4k monitor and the window manager niri, so it's easy to fit multiple terminals on a screen

Honor system and smell test, I would think

Perhaps it was TheDraw? Which has been reincarnated now as Durdraw: https://durdraw.org/

maybe a much earlier version. There were no animations, and this was before color was widespread.

Thank you so much for this. I was wondering not so long ago what happened to TheDraw.

I've enjoyed most of Isaac Asimov's work, especially The Last Question.

I also liked a couple stories from Ted Chiang's Stories of Your Life and Others.

Nice description, nice UI. How do you scale the difficulty? Do you have a puzzle generator algorithm, or is each puzzle made by hand?

Thanks a ton! Difficulty is a great question. After a few rounds of puzzles, I like to aim for an 85-90% completion rate and found that puzzles with around 30-40 characters or usually 10-15 words is the sweet spot. Smaller letter pieces can also up the ante. There is a seeded puzzle generator algorithm that handles puzzle layout and piece creation. There’s an option to create your own puzzles and it’s always a treat seeing the bee movie script get generated lol