Jeff Valcher

Termfu is an easy-to-use, multi-language TUI debugger frontend for Linux that allows you to create and switch between custom layouts. It currently supports GDB and PDB.

My preferred setup is a terminal running tmux and Neovim on one screen and a browser on the other. I couldn't find a terminal-based debugger to suit my needs, so here we are. Vimspector came close (great project). However, I wanted something a little further left on the UI complexity spectrum that also allowed for multiple, easy-to-configure layouts.

To that end, I decided to have some fun with the layout creation process, which uses "key-binding ASCII art" to set header command order and window size ratios. I made all key bindings single-key, which can be documented on screen via custom (l)abels. All window data is scrollable.

While working on my debugger, termfu, I started to notice the emotional latency I was experiencing from deciphering GCC's error messages. Finally I decided that enough was enough and put together a Python script that makes use of GCC's ‑fdiagnostics‑format=json flag to separate and color the individual errors and warnings, providing reader-friendly output for the ‑Wall and ‑Wextra flags. This has significantly enhanced my developer experience.

March 25, 2025 update: Google is shutting down their Representatives API April 30. The demo site has been taken down.

This Express app sends your address to Google's Civic Information API to fetch your political representatives at every level of government. I was curious how web scraping worked, so (at the expense of making rapid image API calls) I decided to scrape the first Google Base64 image result for each representative with Selenium. I also set up a socket to display the number of representative images left to fetch. While putting this app together, I had my first experience with React in a web development class that gave me vertigo from the abstraction level. As a result, I decided to put together my own vanilla JavaScript templating engine for this project.

July 1, 2024 update: YouTube has changed to scrolling numbers, and this script no longer works.

The first thing I look at while a YouTube video is loading is the view count. For some reason the design team picked a font size and layout that makes it blend into the surrounding context. This simple script modifies the view count and date styling for better readability.