Doom, Played over Curl

fao_

> The catch: the shell normally puts the terminal in *cooked mode,* Yeah, that's not the name of the mode. In this sense, it's "canonical mode". Description reads like AI slop where technical content was reformatted into marketing/PRspeak. It feels like a 30 year old PR representative desperately trying to twist any kind of technical language specifically to pander to the AAVE-derived slang of the younger set of internet-addled minds. As a result, this does not interest me. For anyone who is interested in ANSI terminal stuff, or building their own, Lexi Hale had a decent article on this: https://xn--rpa.cc/irl/term.html which got discussion here about eight years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24436860

thomasfl

This is a good template for making terminal based apps that run on remote servers.

varun_ch

One interesting side effect of having a LLM write the thing including the README, is that the models tend to leave little hints of the authors intention or prompt as over-explained passages that make it obvious that AI help was used. https://github.com/xsawyerx/curl-doom?tab=readme-ov-file#how... eg. > A browser hitting the same URL gets a tiny landing page that just shows the one-liner it’s subtle but once you notice it, it’s hard to miss. As an aside, I feel like projects like this used to be really fun and impressive (I guess due to the fact that you’d think “Wow a human put their time into this wacky crazy thing”), whereas now you can have Claude consistently crap out something like this in 5 minutes, so it ruins the whole appeal to me…

Leomuck

What the hell. First, I thought this was crazy. How could you do anything crazy with curl? But of course, curling a bash script opens lots of opportunities. Given the right permissions, you could run an enterprise Jira server via only a curl to a bash script. Still cool that people find more ways to play doom, but calling it "via curl" seems a little missleading to me. "Playing doom via a simple bash script" would have felt more appropriate.

reactordev

oddly enough, this is how it looked when I ran it on my 486 when I was a kid. Pretty accurate except this runs at a faster fps than mine did... ;)

azalemeth

Reminds me of libcaca - http://caca.zoy.org/wiki/libcaca - which can render many things natively in ascii, really incredibly effectively.

ehtbanton

This is very impressive, have tried it out. If only everyone was as good at making performant terminal applications (cough cough Anthropic)

BobbyTables2

I’m shocked that curl is fancy enough to start reading and outputting the HTTP response before the request has even been fully sent! I wasn’t expecting that a “simple” command line application supports this kind of thing — the HTTP spec is crazy enough that I can’t say I’m surprised it’s not forbidden.