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.

As per my previous blog post, I’ve discovered Alacritty but it has no tab functionality. That’s why I started using Tmux more outside of server management. Locally I now have multiple sessions with multiple windows that (can) have multiple panes. I have two sessons running, my personal dev environment and one for work. I also have a separate tmux window for Spotify-tui, I might make a blog post about that in the future with Spotifyd.

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.

I’ve been experiencing some slowdowns in my shell lately, I could not explain why. But I am using Oh My Zsh, and after some searching I found a blog post by Matthew J. Clemente that has a complete walkthrough of how to diagnose and fix slow (Oh My Zsh) shells. You start by measuring actual load times to set a base with a simple function you can put into your .