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by csande17 28 days ago
> The 256×144 px screen requires pixel-level rendering, which standard TUI libraries (ncurses, etc.) cannot provide. The proposed solution is an HTML/CSS rendering engine running as a background daemon — a lightweight browser-based renderer that draws menus, popups, and UI components.

Truly, a design only an LLM could love.

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Why not use Qt-embedded, which is specifically designed for this kind of thing and works well?
They should just use Trolley[0] which will ship their TUI inside Ghostty.

[0]: https://github.com/weedonandscott/trolley

What's a design an LLM would _loathe_?
bitshifting screen renders directly to pixels on custom hardware, if I had to bet
Anything invented after 2024?
What leightweight browser rendering?