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The effects during typing are a little distracting.

Do you plan to allow the usual string navigation shortcuts that my hands are apparently unable to type without? (^-a ^-e ^-k, etc.) ?

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Yeah, the one thing that made me click away from the site was the particle effects when typing. It really broke that 'suspension of disbelief' moment for me. I know it is not a real terminal, but if you are going to go to the effort of making people feel they are interacting with a terminal, then don't break that illusion with fancy chrome.

Agree. It's a fun effect to show off as a FE dev I guess, but it feels out of character. Maybe make a "party mode" or something? You could click a disco ball to turn it on! :D Other than that, cool idea and well executed.

That's actually from an atom plugin called Activate Power Mode: https://atom.io/packages/activate-power-mode

Some of my colleagues use it and I tell them they're absolutely nuts, but they swear by it. It reminds them their code has meaning, I guess? Haha

I once helped conduct a hiring interview where the candidate had that enabled, it had an especially bad effect on the video compression in google hangouts screensharing.

There is a Real Terminal Emulator™ with some effects close to this (including, I believe, a nyancat cursor) called Terminology (from the Enlightenment folks).

I really like the particles.

The cursor effects with the exploding after each letter typed makes the site cool and not really usable.

I too feeel they are distracting.

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