Hi everyone, I am the author. Let me know if you have any questions or ideas.
I really enjoyed it, mostly the world map. Once I was thinking in something similar, I was thinking in create a terminal software to monitor my small portfolio of stocks, and tell me about opportunities on the market. The reason to be on terminal was because I was looking for a more discreet interface running locally.
In my day job I author web dashboards (working in HP on performance testing tools) so I thought it would be cool to have those dashboards directly in the terminal. But I would have done it even without this incentive. I do a lot of projects just because they inspire me, check out GifW00t! https://github.com/yaronn/GifW00t
The provided example is a great illustration of how to build various layouts and use the various widgets. I find it lacks any examples of real-world data gathering. For us Node newbies, how would one, for example, graph system load of a remote server over time? I think examples like that would help get some people going.