I built blaeckfetch to explore what's possible with terminal rendering. It's a system fetch tool built on top of my terminal UI library (blaeck) — image conversion, 256-color fallback, animation phases, that sort of thing.

It has a retro console-style splash mode with a procedural starfield, or your own background image rendered as half-block terminal characters. I liked how it turned out, maybe you will too.

Runs in ~7ms with boot-cycle caching for static fields like hostname and CPU. Written in Rust.

Not trying to replace fastfetch or anything — just a personal project. Hope someone else finds it useful too.

Try it: `brew tap gustafeden/tap && brew install blaeckfetch` (macOS) or install from source via the repo.

Repo: https://github.com/gustafeden/blaeckfetch Docs: https://gustafeden.github.io/blaeckfetch/

Happy to answer questions about the implementation.