Build Beautiful Terminal UIs

The terminal is back. Learn how to craft stunning, interactive command-line interfaces that developers actually love using.

Ashley Hindle

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What you'll learn

A hands-on course on building modern TUIs — from layout and styling to interactivity and state management. Ship CLI tools that feel like real apps.

The Basics

How terminals actually render, escape codes, the building blocks.

Layout

Grids, positioning, responsive design — in monospace.

Interactivity

Keyboard nav, focus, mouse, inputs.

Styling

Colors, themes, borders, box-drawing chars.

State

Managing complexity without it falling apart.

Real Tools

Build stuff people actually use.

                                  
                                  
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Howdy, I'm Ashley. I build terminal apps for a living.

I created Whisp, a pure PHP SSH server for building terminal UIs. I lead AI at Laravel, where I built Boost and Croft. Over 15 years of shipping production systems, former CTO, and I live in the terminal.

This course is everything I wish existed when I started building TUIs — the mental models, the escape codes, the layouts, and the real patterns that make terminal apps feel good.