I kept noticing something slightly ironic: a lot of developers live in their terminal, coding, running tests, pushing commits and then open a browser just to post a rant.

That context switch felt unnecessary.

So I built TerminalRant, a Mastodon client designed for people who prefer staying in the terminal.

It’s written in Go (using Bubble Tea) and focuses on being keyboard-first: fast startup, vim-style navigation, inline editing, and buffer-mode posting through $EDITOR. No mouse required.

It’s not trying to compete with full-featured GUI clients. It’s just meant to make reading and posting feel native to a terminal workflow.

You can install it with: `go install github.com/CrestNiraj12/terminalrant@latest`

There’s also Homebrew and Scoop support.

I’d really appreciate feedback, especially on the UX and posting workflow. I’m sure there are things power users would want that I haven’t thought of yet.

Repo: https://github.com/CrestNiraj12/terminalrant

Thanks for taking a look.