command line and text "fun"

In the so-old-school it’s new department, Command Line Interfaces are back - if they ever went away in the first place. 

Firebear Studio has a list of 75 Best Node.js Command Line Apps & Utilities. You can build some awesome into your installer, like parallel dynamic spinner/progress bars, giant ASCII font banners, and slick pick list and options sets.

Asciiflow is another text-based cool tool… it’s a simple diagram editor, but it outputs ASCII (both extended and old-school)…

From

to

+----------------+

|                |

|                |

|  Are we having |

|                +-----------------+

|     fun yet?   |                 |

|                |                 |

|                |                 |

+----------------+                 |

                       +-----------v-------+

                       |                   |

                       |                   |

                       |    Well Why Not?  |

                       |                   |

                       |                   |

                       |                   |

                       +-------------------+

Just make sure you are using a fixed-width font!