Instead of another GPU terminal renderer, I trained a 1.26M-param model to turn TUIs (htop, vim, emacs…) into real UI components [R]

Write-up + demo: https://drksci.com/labs-phosphene So this started as a bit of a gripe. Modern terminal renderers are seriously impressive and seriously complicated. GPU glyph atlases, texture caches, custom shaders, HarfBuzz shaping, ligatures, damage tracking, grid diffing, dirty-row uploads.