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by carokann 2489 days ago
Neat. For people looking at alternatives for configurable dashboards i suggest sampler[0]. It has a weird license but free for personal use. You can report any output of a terminal command with a custom time rate. E.g. you can SSH and pipe HTOP of a remote system, query your local DB and do a timeseries etc. all in one place.

[0]: https://github.com/sqshq/sampler

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Well, neat, but why would sampler call a series of vertical bars sparklines?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sparkline

In 2006, the term sparkline itself was introduced by Edward Tufte for "small, high resolution graphics embedded [inline] in a context of words, numbers, images". Tufte described sparklines as "data-intense, design-simple, word-sized graphics".

See the Usage section for an example.

It's GPL v3.0, so no weird license at all.

EDIT: A closer look revealed that it had indeed an unusual license just 22 days ago. It's GPL v3.0 now.

These are all great, but I'm curious if anyone can suggest browser alternatives (I've looked before w/o success) -- It would be awesome to have something like this open up on the home browser tab. Any suggestions?
I'm in the same camp as you are, a funny method that would "kinda work" would be to use something like https://github.com/yudai/gotty but I feel like that's a pretty hacky solution haha.