ntcharts-lorem-picsum

April 28, 2026 · View on GitHub

ntcharts-lorem-picsum is a sortable, filterable browser over the Lorem Picsum catalog. Pick an image from the table and it renders side-by-side: half-block glyphs on the left (works in any terminal), full Kitty graphics on the right (requires a Kitty-graphics-capable terminal such as Kitty, Ghostty, or WezTerm).

It exercises the pictureurl package end-to-end — async URL fetch, LRU image cache, error overlays, and the picture.Model Glyph/Kitty toggle.

(source) ntcharts-lorem-picsum gif

./bin/ntcharts-lorem-picsum

Keys:

KeyAction
/ h, / lPrevious / next image
cOpen catalog browser (then / to filter, s to cycle sort, enter to select, esc to close)
gJump to a numeric ID (type digits, then enter; esc to cancel)
rReload the current image (or retry catalog if it failed to load)
q, ctrl+cQuit