100 stars. I know that's nothing by internet standards, but I genuinely didn't expect anyone outside my own GitHub profile to care about this.

Kairo started as a frustration project. I was deep in a coding session, had to context-switch to my task manager, and just... snapped a little. Opened a new Go module that same night. That was a few months ago.

For those who haven't seen it — Kairo is a fully local, keyboard-first terminal task manager. SQLite storage, 32 themes, fuzzy search, natural language deadlines, a Lua plugin system, a CLI API for scripting, and an optional MCP server if you want to point AI agents at your task list. No cloud. No account. No subscription. Just a binary you run in your terminal.

Things I didn't expect when building it:

• That people would actually use the Lua hooks (shoutout to the person who built a webhook notifier with them — genuinely wild)
• That the "32 themes" feature would be the thing people mentioned most
• That u/Tornado300 would show up and fix bugs I'd been avoiding for weeks

What's coming: encrypted multi-workspace support, a sandboxed plugin environment, and smarter task suggestions. I'm building this in the open and taking feedback seriously — if something annoys you, open an issue or just tell me here.

If you've been looking for a task manager that lives where you actually work — give it a shot.

→ github.com/programmersd21/kairo

Thanks for the stars. They matter more than they probably should.

I built this fully with AI assistance: a Linux-native 3D viewer that renders straight into your terminal using the Kitty Graphics Protocol. No GPU required — it's a software rasterizer running on the CPU.

Features:

• Loads OBJ, STL, and glTF/GLB meshes, plus built-in procedural demos (cube, sphere, torus, cylinder, cone, icosphere)
• Full mouse + keyboard controls: rotate, pan, zoom, toggle shading modes (smooth/flat/wireframe/normals/depth/unlit)
• Several built-in themes (catppuccin, gruvbox, tokyo-night, nord...)
• Can render to a PNG screenshot with no terminal needed, or run a deterministic benchmark
• Clean architecture: unified Asset/Mesh representation → transform/cull/rasterize/shade (Blinn-Phong) into an RGBA framebuffer → presentation layer isolated so other backends (Sixel, etc.) could be added later

Requires Linux + kitty (or another terminal supporting the Kitty Graphics Protocol). Terminals that don't support it get a clean error instead of getting left in a broken state.

cargo run --release -- --demo torus --spin
cargo run --release -- model.glb --theme catppuccin --fps 30

MIT licensed. Would love feedback, especially on rendering performance and any meshes that break the importers.

https://github.com/programmersd21/k3d

"mic drop gif"

flow just hit 0.2.0, and it's the biggest update since launch. A quick recap for anyone new here: flow is a real time terminal bandwidth monitor with Braille grid waveforms, spring smoothed numbers, and glowing borders that react to traffic load.

What's new

Throughput values now actually use the spring physics the README always claimed. Numbers glide toward their targets instead of snapping, which sounds small but changes how the whole dashboard feels under load.

The ping target is now configurable. It defaulted to 1.1.1.1 and had no way to change it. Now you can set ping_target in the config or pass --ping on the command line if you want to check latency against your own gateway or a different host entirely.

There's a new streaming JSON mode. --json-stream writes one JSON object per line to stdout, continuously, so you can pipe flow into whatever else you're building. This was the most requested feature since --json and --once shipped.

Daily totals now survive restarts. They get written to ~/.config/flow/stats.json on quit and reloaded on the next launch, so closing your terminal doesn't wipe out the day's numbers anymore.

Themes are no longer limited to the 8 built in ones. Drop a .toml file into ~/.config/flow/themes/ and flow picks it up automatically at startup. Full control over colors and gradients if the defaults don't match your setup.

There's also a public roadmap now (ROADMAP.md) laying out where 0.2.x through 0.5.x are headed, and test coverage got a real pass, especially around the spring animation math and the history persistence round trip.

Since the last big writeup

If you've been following along, a lot happened between 0.1.1 and 0.1.7 too: a theme selector, bits/sec toggle, live ping indicator, a network processes panel, an interface details overlay, reset confirmation to stop accidental data loss, and a full typography and spacing pass that gave the whole UI a much more deliberate hierarchy. 0.2.0 is really the point where all of that groundwork turns into new capability instead of polish.

Usage

flow                        # hero view, auto interface
flow --compact               # numbers only
flow --tiny                  # tmux status bar
flow --json-stream            # continuous JSON Lines, new in 0.2.0
flow --ping 8.8.8.8            # custom ping target, new in 0.2.0

Install / upgrade

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

Pre-built binaries for Linux, macOS, and Windows are on the releases page. Config and theme files are backward compatible, nothing to migrate.

Links

Source, changelog, and roadmap: https://github.com/programmersd21/flow

Appreciate everyone who's been using flow and sending feedback, it's shaped most of what shipped in this release. If it felt cool, a star on the repo goes a long way.

Chinas Ministry of State Security has told state linked entities to stop using Windows immediately The original deadline was February 2027 theyre pulling it forward because of data security concerns

The two main replacements theyre pushing

Kylin OS from Kylin Software started life with FreeBSD roots and is now its own Linux-based system

Unity OS from Tongxin built on Deepin which is Debian-based

Both have had years of government money and development behind them This isnt some sudden ideaScale-wise this is huge Were talking potentially hundreds of millions of government-linked machines Even a partial rollout would be one of the biggest Linux deployments ever Munich switching a city government was considered a big deal at the time

This is national level Europes been moving in the same direction for a while France Germany etc mainly over data sovereignty and cost Chinas just doing it a lot more aggressively

India side of things Were not starting from zero

Maya OS Ubuntu-based is already being used by the Defence Ministry Came with the Chakravyuh protection system Developed by DRDO C-DAC NIC mainly for security reasons after the usual cyber threats

BOSS Linux Debian-based from C-DAC has been around for years supports a ton of Indian languages and gets pushed for government and education use

Theres also BharOS for mobiles and regular talk from ministers and parliamentary panels about needing a proper indigenous OS so were not dependent on Windows Android

So the building blocks exist especially on the defence side Whats missing is the full-blown nationwide drop Windows now order that China just issued

So a few days ago i switched from windows 10 to Fedora Linux and i wanted to use a rice i really loved but sadly There was no Fedora supported version of it. So i decided to do it myself

https://github.com/tarbai771/sidera-shell

I had posted on this subreddit about how i was thinking of shifting to opensuse leap from fedora workstation.

My main reasons were that for some reason my fedora copy didn't had blootooth working properly. Even tho my pipewire config was good, blueman was doing blueman thing. And I just wanted a place that stable enough for my thing.

I am not a programmer, I do personal resurch for whatever that intrests me that day. Moreover I am about to go to college and i wouldn't want to tinker with my laptop when I actually use it.

I was concidering OpenSuse leap because it's stable and ofcourse yast.

But I was suggested Debian, my perception of debian was "old distro". But if i want a rock solid stable distro it was one of the best option.

So here i bend the knee and installed debian with kde.

It's just been a day since I am using it but it's been good. Bluetooth works, wifi works, it just works good.

Thanks for all the suggestions♥️