How to Install and Configure the Tiny Care Terminal Dashboard

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The Tiny Care Terminal dashboard is one of my favorite new terminal 'toys'. Below is a visual breakdown of the features:

The dashboard allows you to track:

Per repo git commits Daily vs Weekly git commits (notice that it doesn't perform a trailing week, it starts over at the beginning of each week) Tweets Weather And my favorite feature is that it also has a pomodoro clock

The tool is NPM based and you can install it with the following command (this assumes that you have NPM installed on your system):

Now all you have to do is update your .bashrc file (or .zshrc file if you use ZSH) with the following configuration code, I've added comments where I thought the dev's example needed more explanation:

With all of this in place you just have to restart your terminal and you're good to go after typing the following into your terminal:

I also added the following alias to my .zshrc file so all I have to do is type in the word tiny and it performs the same action:

Lastly, if you want to use the Pomodoro timer, when the dashboard is open, you can use the following commands:

s - start/pause/resume pomodoro e - stop pomodoro u - update pomodoro duration b - update break time

I hope that you have as much fun with it as I do!