Oh hey, if only html was text based.

Oh, wait, it is.

I'm rapidly developing grumpy old man habits about this gulf between "web" and "terminal". Imagine a world where we do `ls | grep .files.size` or something.

I mean, I get why we're here, but it feels so close to giving us all the power of html/css/etc while also having pipes and shells.

Terminal emulators are user facing. Most programs don’t care about the terminal and have no awareness of it. They communicate through streams of texts and that’s it. I use Emacs and it’s another text interface different from the standard terminal. Think dired, proced, magit…