ghboard · GitHub dashboard for your terminal

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Why I built it

I live in the terminal. My whole loop is terminal, editor, terminal, git, terminal, Claude Code, terminal. The one thing that kept pulling me out was GitHub. Check a notification, open a browser. Remember what I starred last week, open a browser. Every time, a context switch into a tab that then sits open for six hours.

None of what I wanted needs a browser. Notifications are a list. Stars are a list. The contribution heatmap is a grid of shaded cells, and block characters render that fine. Nobody had put them in a TUI, so I did.

Go and BubbleTea

Built in Go with BubbleTea, which gives you a clean Elm-style architecture for terminal UIs and compiles to one static binary. No runtime, no dependencies, a file you drop on your PATH. It talks to both GitHub APIs, REST for most things and GraphQL for the heatmap, with token auth and a configurable refresh. hjkl and arrows to navigate, because of course.

Small tool, and that is the point. Not everything needs to be a platform. Some of the highest value code you can write removes one recurring friction from your own day.

Open source on github. Write-up: a GitHub dashboard for my terminal →