Show HN: Embed a real Linux terminal on your website

raboukhalil 2 hours ago | |

The use case is for tutorials and documentation pages. sandbox.bio embeds that terminal in all its bioinformatics tutorials and people find it useful to have an environment where you don't need to set anything up before you start learning. So I wanted to make it easy for others to embed a similar environment in their training materials.

hk1337 2 hours ago | |

I don't think there is much use to it other than fun little gimmick.

To that end, I could see it being sort of fun to run like "ls" and see the list of post categories, then do like "ls posts/" to see all the general posts, then "cat posts/i-am-a-post.txt" to read the post.

raboukhalil 2 hours ago | | |

A few weeks ago, I came across a blog post with 5 git tips. I would have loved having an embedded terminal with some mock repos preloaded with the exact situation. That's the kind of use case I'm aiming at, not just the basic commands!

rvz 2 hours ago | |

I don't see a point to this. Even the post itself it looks half-complete and somewhat broken and of low quality.

In fact it appears that this post was subject to an upvote ring to quickly reach the front page with little of value in itself.

So I am very suspect of this post.

raboukhalil 2 hours ago | | |

Wow tough crowd, can you expand on why it looks broken and low quality?

dummydummy1234 1 hour ago | | |

From my perspective it does not tell me how it works, or the give examples of why you would use it?

Is it a actual Linux kernel + filesystem under the hood?

Or did you just use the standard utilities compiled for wasm,

how does network access work (assume it doesn't because of coors)

Can you run non-wasm programs? How do entry points work - what about ctrl-c and interrupts for long running programs.

You do not discuss any of this and it seems half baked.

(This coming from someone who has explored how to do this for a vscode in browser editor playground)

tosti 1 hour ago | | |

I'm gonna let you in on a little secret and it's called F12.

ranger_danger 56 minutes ago | | |

Please don't get discouraged, people who are rude are just projecting their own troubles onto others. The documentation/tutorial concept is a great idea in my opinion.

Whenever I see a new command-line tool advertised, I always wish I could try it right away without having to download/compile it, which isn't always easy.