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flow v0.1.1 is out

This release is mostly about making the UI work better in more environments while cleaning up a lot of rough edges.

New in this release:

• Added a new --mini mode that shows only the live graphs. Useful for smaller terminals.
• Press m to switch between Hero, Compact, Mini and Tiny views without restarting.
• The dashboard now automatically switches to a smaller layout if your terminal isn't tall enough.
• Refreshed the UI with cleaner borders, gradients and typography.
• Added a cleaner help dialog and status bar.
• Peak throughput now briefly flashes when a new session record is reached.

--tiny also got a pretty big overhaul.

It no longer depends on Bubble Tea or terminal detection, so it now works properly inside tmux #( ), cron jobs, pipes and redirected output. --tiny --no-color now produces plain text with no ANSI escape sequences.

Also fixed:

• Daily totals not resetting correctly across month/year boundaries.
• Hangs when network counter reads failed.
• Config file creation on macOS and Windows.
• Platform-specific config paths on Linux, macOS and Windows.

If flow has been useful to you, consider sponsoring the project. It helps me dedicate more time to maintaining it and building new features.

A GitHub star, bug report, or even sharing the project is just as appreciated.

https://github.com/programmersd21/flow

https://github.com/sponsors/programmersd21

made this in manim

Hello World! This is my first post on this sub. For context in a few weeks college would start and Im bored of watching everyone code in VScode and coding myself in vscode.

Don't get me wrong its a great editor but im too lazy to lift my hands from keyboard to mouse. From networkchuck i discovered tmux and from another yt series i learnt neovim.

( im using wsl2 on win11 because rn im on a single ssd with win 11 by default with bitlocker encryption and the process of removing bitlocker encryption and then dual booting is so mehh )

How is my setup? Current i use the following plugins ( with lazy as packet manager ):
- Vim moonfly colors and material deepocean ( currently moonfly in img )
- neo-tree
- nvim-web-devicons ( with firacode mono )
- lualine
- none-ls
- telescope + telescope-ui-select
- nvim-treesitter
- mason + mason-lspconfig + nvim-lspconfig
- nvim-cmp + LuaSnip + cmp_luasnip + friendly-snippets

I would appreciate your thoughts on my setup and any feedback regarding anything mentioned in this post.

Thanks for reading!

I got tired of network monitors that look like they were designed for a BBS, so I built flow. It's a real time bandwidth monitor with Braille grid waveforms, spring smoothed numbers, and glowing borders that react to traffic load.

What it does

It shows live download and upload throughput with units that auto scale from B/s up to GB/s. The waveform is a high res Braille grid scrolling at 30fps, and the borders glow brighter as traffic picks up, going from a dark idle state to bright cyan and emerald under load. Numbers are spring interpolated so they glide instead of jumping around. It tracks session peaks, flashing white when you hit a new record, and keeps a running daily total.

There are three views that adapt to your terminal width. Hero is the full dashboard. Compact strips it down to numbers only. Tiny is a single line built for tmux status bars.

Philosophy

If a feature doesn't help you understand your network in under a second, it doesn't make the cut. No CPU panels, no packet counters, no multi pane clutter. Just download and upload throughput, done well.

Usage

flow                        # hero view, auto interface
flow --compact              # numbers only
flow --tiny                 # tmux status bar
flow --json                 # one-shot JSON for scripts
flow --once                 # one-shot plain text

tmux integration

set -g status-right "#(flow --tiny --no-color)"
set -g status-interval 1

Install

go install github.com/programmersd21/flow/cmd/flow@latest

or AUR:

yay -S flow-network-monitor-bin

or homebrew:

brew install programmersd21/flow/flow

Pre-built binaries for Linux, macOS, and Windows (amd64/arm64) are on the releases page.

It works with zero config out of the box. If you want to tweak the refresh rate, history length, or units, there's an optional TOML config at ~/.config/flow/config.toml.

Platform support

It runs on Linux (/proc/net/dev), macOS (sysctl), and Windows (GetIfTable2, no admin needed). Idle CPU stays under 1%.

Links

Source and demo: https://github.com/programmersd21/flow

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Would love feedback, especially on the tiny/tmux mode. Curious if the info density is right for people running it in a status bar all day.

Now Can Someone help me to rice it?

If you have any suggestions, additions, please tell me in the comments.

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A small update to my previous post. Finally happy with how everything turned out.

saw this baby for 6k, negotiated it down to 3k.

Had one of these when I was a young lad so I have to get it.

What Linux distros should I try?

Specs:

Pentium T4300 2.1GHz

4GB Ram

Intel GMA 4500M

Haven't bought it yet, thinking of if should I pull the trigger