Python Powered Terminal Tools

Python-native terminal utilities that can be installed directly via uv or pipx. Useful for either quick and dirty work, or a productivity boost in an environment where you don’t have full privileges to install your favourite toolchain.

• textual-code

  The best modern TUI code editor. Built on Textual, offering VS Code/Sublime-like features (file explorer, multi-cursor, mouse support) out of the box.

  uv tool install textual-code --python 3.13

• ranger-fm

  The classic, highly customizable terminal file manager with Vim bindings and a multi-column preview layout.

  uv tool install ranger-fm --python 3.13

• visidata

  The “Excel of the terminal.” Incredibly fast tabular data explorer for CSV, Excel, SQLite, IPC and JSON files.

  uv tool install --with pyarrow visidata

• glances

  The absolute powerhouse system monitor. Tracks CPU, RAM, Docker, GPUs, temperatures, and network speeds all at once. Works locally or as a web dashboard you can monitor from your network. Useful for checking status of local home server.

  uv tool install "glances[all]"

• icdiff

  Improved colored diffs. Displays side-by-side terminal diffs with word-level color coding.

  uv tool install icdiff

• hike

  A terminal-based Markdown browser with clickable hyperlinks and beautiful rendering.

  uv tool install hike

• rich-cli

  A massive upgrade to cat. Renders files with full syntax highlighting and proper formatting.

  uv tool install rich-cli

• pygitzen

  A Python-native Git dashboard to stage files, view diffs, and commit without remembering complex commands. Heavily inspired by LazyGit.

  uv tool install pygitzen

• harlequin

  A drop-in terminal IDE replacement for DBeaver/DataGrip. Supports DuckDB, SQLite, PostgreSQL, etc., with a schema sidebar and query editor.

  uv tool install harlequin