I made a Rust Terminal UI for OpenSnitch, a Linux application firewall
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- External ID
- 46010498
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- Product
- I made a Rust Terminal UI for OpenSnitch, a Linux application firewall
- Website domain
- github.com
- Launched
- Nov. 21, 2025
- Cohort
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- Upvotes
- 6
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.27074235807860264
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- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:25 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:25 p.m.
Description
I made a Terminal UI for OpenSnitch[1], an interactive application firewall for Linux inspired by Little Snitch. I’ve always wanted to create a TUI and found the perfect excuse to make this for usage on one of my headless servers.I wrote this in Rust to force myself to learn more, viz. async features. Super open to feedback and contributions![1] https://github.com/evilsocket/opensnitch
Enrichment
- Theme
- self-hosted infrastructure and security tools
- Vertical
- Security
- Function
- Dev tools
- Audience
- Developer
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- terminal ui for linux firewall
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes Building a terminal UI (TUI) for an existing daemon using Rust libraries like Ratatui communicating over gRPC or Unix sockets is standard systems integration work well within vibe coding capability.
Discussion
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