This post exist of two different projects, the first one is Spotify-tui, and de second is Spotifyd. Spotify-tui Spotify-tui is a terminal interface using the web API and is witten in the Rust language, however, it does not play the songs itself. It only uses the API to select/play a song, you’ll need another piece of the puzzle to actually play the music. Since Spotify-tui is written in Rust it’s very memory efficient and safe, meaning it will never do unexpected things.

Since I’m on a streak of optimising my workflow in the terminal, I started to use Vi/Vim/Nvim as my default editor. The reason being it’s (almost) always installed by default, and it’s really powerful once you learn only a couple of shortcuts. Currently I use Neovim on my development machine because it’s fast, extensable and overal very nice to use. The only thing I really have to get used to is the hjkl format of movement, I know you shouldn’t use them often in the first place but as a Vi newbie it’s a very nice thing to fall back to something familiar like the arrow keys to move around.

I’ve recently come across a new terminal emulator called Alacritty, it is a new terminal emulator written in Rust. It uses the GPU to accellerate the calculations it needs to make which results in a more responsive terminal, some commands like tree also seem to run faster. Check out this video from DistroTube: The terminal emulator is still in beta and does not have any GUI to edit the settings, all settings need to be defined in a YAML config file.