Spark: Sparklines in your shell
hskimse
50 points
12 comments
August 30, 2026
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Discussion Highlights (5 comments)
throw-the-towel
Site seems to be hugged to death. https://web.archive.org/web/20260830100336/https://git.zx2c4...
priteau
I am not sure why this repository last updated in November 2011 is suddenly on the front page? Anyway, a better known implementation (in Bash) is probably https://github.com/holman/spark , which was developed by Zach Holman, one of the first GitHub hires.
someothherguyy
is this some meta commentary on cgit's performance? (site doesn't load) see: https://github.com/zx2c4/cgit
bensmoif
Big up Edward Tufte
luciandan
That is so cool, that now I'm brainstorming CLI things to build that need a sparkline. Wonder if Claude Code can learn to use this.