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by pjmlp 265 days ago
I really hate all those CLI applications and terminal configurations that look like circus came to town.
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I don't love emojis for this purely because they're graphically inconsistent; I can't style them with my terminal font or colour scheme. But I'm a huge fan of using various (single-width) unicode chars with colour to make terminal output a lot easier to parse, visually. Colour and iconography are extremely useful.
Hieroglyphics are vastly underused.

    𓂫 ~ 𓃝 JdeBP𓆈localhost 𓅔 %                                𓅭 pts/0
Love it, first time I see that online on forums (genuinely). Gives ideas for Reddit posts
U+130B9 is probably a good one to start with over there.

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what isn't in the unicode standard these days???
It's the same thing as naming your servers Titan and Cerberus, using garish RGB LEDs on every computer part (in a glass case of course), and having a keyboard that looks like a disco.