Perhaps he means a no installation way to show htop on a web-page?
Assuming you have 'htop' installed, you can pipe it's output to seashells.io via `nc` (netcat) and it will give you back a URL where you can see the output.
Seashells isn't currently open-source (the goal was to have a hosted version to make it easy for people to pipe non-sensitive data). In the next version, I'm planning on adding end-to-end password-based encryption.
Also, there are similar things out there that you can self-host, e.g. https://rtail.org/
> Seashells isn't currently open-source (the goal was to have a hosted version to make it easy for people to pipe non-sensitive data). In the next version, I'm planning on adding end-to-end password-based encryption.
Obviously it's your decision, but any particular reason it's not open source? I can't imagine it being commercially viable.
With `nc` you can also just start typing and it'll show up on the other end after you hit enter. `nc` works across any two computers on the same network.
To receive messages with nc do
nc -l 3333
To send messages do
nc 192.168.1.XX 3333
with the IP or hostname of the receiving server. No encryption though.
termbin seems to be a classical pastebin. it only gives you a URL after it received all input. seashells gives URL immediately, and streams the terminal in real-time.
A tiny nitpick: if you have a little description in the page title it's easier to find it when searching the bookmarks. It's easy to append a bit more information when bookmarking on desktop, but when bookmarking on mobile it's harder, and as usually you don't see the bookmark's details after bookmarking, it can become unfindable.
Saw this was cool and was a bit sad that it wasn't yet open source. I decided to make something extremely more simple than this (doesn't require any database management, just a single go app).
Seriously this is pretty hacky, especially since I put it together in less than an hour and took some bad shortcuts. It works well though, and should technically support multiple clients but it can definitely be made better. Open to any questions/comments.
Reminds me of this submission from a while ago that explained how to have a kinda-live version of the current htop status as the background image of your website as a fun hack:
DoA it only got one vote! (It didn't scale well, sockets weren't closed on disconnection, so that was fixed). At least now everyone can watch the server's load average increase real time.
I don't understand what am I looking at. Somebody runs htop command and serves output as an html? How did that end up in HN top? Should be maximum a high school project.
Snarky dismissals are not allowed on HN, especially not allowed in response to new work. That's like trampling someone's garden when new plants are sprouting. From the Show HN guidelines:
Instead of "you're doing it wrong", suggest alternatives. When someone is learning, help them learn more. When something isn't good, you needn't pretend that it is. But don't be gratuitously negative.
I don't think there's an education level prereq for Show HN. It could probably be based on interestingness + utility. Ultimately, upvotes determine a "Show HN"'s success.
