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notwaldorf/tiny-care-terminal
💖💻 A little dashboard that tries to take care of you when you're using your terminal.
A terminal dashboard that shows encouraging git commit history, weather, and tweets from self-care bots. It's a personal productivity/wellness tool from 2017 that gained traction because it reframes 'I haven't done anything today' by surfacing all your small commits. Aimed at developers who need a gentle reminder that incremental work counts.
The git commit display is the killer feature — scanning configurable repo paths at configurable depth and showing today vs. last 7 days is genuinely useful for mood. Pomodoro mode is baked in with keyboard shortcuts so you're not reaching for a separate app. The ASCII art mascot system is surprisingly deep: cowsay library, ansi-art, random selection, or your own downloaded file. Zero-configuration path: install globally, set a handful of env vars, run.
Hard pinned to Node 10, which is so far past EOL it's archaeological. The Twitter integration is dead — the free API tier that would have powered this was killed in 2023, and scraping mode was already described as fragile when the project was active. Last commit was 2024 but the README hasn't caught up to the Twitter reality, so new users will hit a confusing failure with no guidance. The weather dependency is an external API with no fallback, so a bad day for that service means a broken dashboard with no error handling visible in the README.