In preparation for this release, I used the `VHS` utility to make scripted short videos for various features. Here are videos showcasing a few core features that were also present in older releases:

- Character cards and user personas
- Message presets […]

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Chabeau 0.6.0 (open source chatbot TUI in #rust) has been released.

This is another feature-packed release. Most notably, it ships the `/refine` command (quick in-place revision of an assistant response using a prompt) and in-place editing of assistant messages […]

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Managing focus and scrolling in a terminal UI (TUI) is tricky, but I think I landed on a reasonable approach for Chabeau (https://github.com/permacommons/chabeau).

It's very subtle, but you can see it in this video:

- "›" indicates focus, "·" indicates out of […]

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Sometimes it's the little things .. made myself a little helper script using `yad` that I can use to quickly bounce the dev env for @lib_reviews :)

One minor annoyance this helps address is the "oh, dev env isn't running" problem when hitting the browser; now I […]

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Chabeau is fast, and works well with high speed inference providers like Cerebras. Here it is running against a Cerebras endpoint for the Qwen 480B model, showing off the speedy markdown renderer (provided by the `pulldown-cmark` crate, with some customization […]

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Permacommons devlog 2025-10-02

Finally released Chabeau 0.4.0. If you're looking for a non-agentic chatbot UI that runs in the terminal, do check it out.

https://github.com/permacommons/chabeau

It now has interactive dialogs for theme, provider and model […]

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Permacommons devlog 2025-09-10

Lots of features in `chabeau` (terminal chatbot TUI) coming together over the last few days:

- markdown support with syntax highlighting and rendering cache
- table rendering
- block selection for quick code extraction to […]

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Permacommons devlog 2025-09-06

Today was pretty productive, mostly working on https://github.com/permacommons/chabeau with Codex.

- Finalized integration of `tui-textarea` to make the input area more reliable and future-proof

- Added interactive theme picker & […]

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I find dealing with MIME parts (e.g., when troubleshooting email rendering) incredibly annoying. There's solid CLI tooling (e.g., `ripmime`) but it still involves a fair bit of poking to get the stuff you want.

Ended up vibe-coding (*gasp*) a quick solution for […]

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- Briefly checks out #omarchy by DHH
- OK, so I don't think I ever need to read anything about that again.