Droeftoeter, a Terminal Coding Toy

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Droeftoeter is a terminal-based coding toy designed for developers interested in exploring experimental programming ideas. Created as a personal project, it offers a compact environment for coding experimentation. The tool is available on GitHub and appeals to those curious about unconventional approaches to terminal-based development and coding concepts.

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Terminal toy. Contribute to whtspc/droeftoeter development by creating an account on GitHub.

It's a toy. Maybe a toddler's first coding agent. A poor man's video generator. An experiment in isolating an LLM in a way that it is fun and harmless. You type what you want to see. A 64x32 character grid comes alive. Each prompt builds on what's already running. The model sees the current code and extends it. /clear to start over. I would love to see someone livecode VJing with droeftoeter on a beamer during an algorave. go build -o droeftoeter . Providers On first launch you pick a provider. Works with: DROEFTOETER_PROVIDER=openai DROEFTOETER_API_KEY=your-key DROEFTOETER_BASE_URL=https://api.groq.com/openai/v1 DROEFTOETER_MODEL=llama-3.3-70b-versatile Or use a config.toml (see…from github.com

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