I made a Rust Terminal UI for OpenSnitch, a Linux application firewall
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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
HN · launched Nov 21, 2025 · 6 upvotes (top 73%) · 0 views
Niche: terminal user interface tools · 86 launches, 2 in the last 7 days · Explore this niche →
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- Security
- Dev tools
- Developer
- Not AI
- Hobby / open-source project
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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.
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