Inspired by the mysterious terminals in Severance, Terminal of Woe invites you to observe a grid of numbers and trust your intuition. Built on iPad and iPhone using Codea, and fully open-source. You are permitted to modify the work. Do not question the task.
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I just returned from 12 weeks of parental leave. Between the baby and the kids, I promised myself that before the end of my time off, I’d ship something. Something small, weird, and made in Codea — the coding app I built but don’t use nearly enough.
This project was my way to dogfood my own app — to approach it not as a developer, but as a user. I forced myself to resist the urge to debug, to poke into internals, or “just fix” something from the inside. Most of the time, I succeeded.
It wasn’t all smooth, but I loved the process. I wrote about it here: https://sim.coffee/a-week-eating...
Hope you enjoy the terminal. If you don't, file a complaint.
