Suggestion: Add an example video so we can see what this actually does.

It is very simple: When you run it it will create a web server (listening on port 5000) by default; when you visit that server with your browser you'll get a terminal to your system (the same terminal / user that was used to originally run the server).

Then what is adorable about it? I was imagining cute animals would appear in the terminal. This is not the case?

Come up with an interesting idea, spend n number of days working on idea, get to the front page of hackernews, have thousands of eyeballs on your thing...Spend 0 time on the readme and have everyone take a half second glance, not know what the thing is or does and move their attention else where. Let this be a lesson to everyone to spend some time on your readme's...https://github.com/matiassingers/awesome-readme

Humorous Readme Driven Development Lightning talk by Matt Parker. Well worth the watch. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=23xzRCoDZf4

How is this on the front page with basically no README and no screenshots or video?

It says adorable and doesn't show the goods. Nerdrage... rising!

What do you mean by adorable?

Calling it adorable without a front and center screenshot is an odd choice.

I visited the README solely because “adorable” was a provocative word and I wanted to see a screenshot of said adorableness. Give the people what they want!

My interpretation was that it was simple, code is easy to read and it does one simple thing.

This launches a new instance of a command of your choosing for every new connection. That does not really seem like casting to me more like a remote shell, but it is adorable in some ways.

I'm sure it is an interesting engineering exercise, but I struggle to think of a situation where I would fire a browser to use the terminal instead of just opening a terminal.

The name might be a hint as to the utility. If you wanted to display your terminal on your massive television using, say, Chromecast, you wouldn't have the option, but you can "cast" a browser window.

I guess you could run the program in one of your private servers then do a reverse proxy to that from a public server. Voila: Easy terminal access to your private servers from everywhere!

Not a good idea from a security standpoint though...

Yeah, I bet there are Electron-based terminals out there anyways.

> <link rel="stylesheet" href="https://unpkg.com/[email protected]/dist/xterm.css" />

Just a heads up, xtermjs has now updated to version 4[1]. You might want to consider for an upgrade.

1: https://github.com/xtermjs/xterm.js/releases

"Show HN" without a proper README or any screenshots of whatever that is supposedly adorable.