{"repo":"tomdavenport/meanwhile","free":true,"listed":false,"github":"https://github.com/tomdavenport/meanwhile","clone":"git clone https://github.com/tomdavenport/meanwhile.git","description":"Horizontal matrix rain of things happening right now — live news, local intel and true poetic facts decode out of the code. Zero deps, one file.","language":"Python","stars":66,"topics":["ambient","cmatrix","matrix","news","omarchy","terminal","tui"],"license":"MIT","category":"cli-tools","readme_excerpt":"meanwhile Horizontal matrix rain of things happening right now. A wall of code sweeps across your terminal. Embedded in the noise — readable if you look — are real things: live news headlines, local intel for places you care about, and true, quietly poetic facts about what is happening somewhere on Earth at this exact moment. In The Matrix , the operators stopped seeing code and started seeing the world through it. That's the idea: an ambient screen you can actually read. Glance at it and it's rain; look at it and it's the world. - News — live headlines, narrowed by your topics, decoded into the stream. Click a headline and its story decodes into the rain as a short summary; shift-click opens the article in your browser (headlines are real OSC 8 hyperlinks). - Local intel — tune to any towns or regions and read what is happening there, down to village-notice level. - Poetic — true things happening right now, for scale and gratitude, drawn from a growing set of veins: the sky, the sea, deep time, the body, creatures, other people. Live counters (people born since you opened the window, what Voyager 1 did while you watched), tonight's actual moon phase, where the sun is rising at this second, what the season is doing at the poles. Every line is true, and more are finding their way in. Zero runtime dependencies. One Python file. Runs on Linux, macOS, and WSL with Python 3.11+. Install With uv (Linux, macOS, or WSL): Or with pipx: On macOS with Homebrew: On Arch: yay -S meanwhile","default_branch":null,"files":null,"tree":[],"storefront":"/r/tomdavenport","claimed":false,"request_supported":{"post":"https://gitbuyer.com/r/tomdavenport/meanwhile/request-supported","requests":0},"note":"indexed from public GitHub; nothing is for sale on this page. Clone it from GitHub. Paid listings live at /search."}