Mad Money

Most of us Linuxians are big into doing everything from the terminal - software development, computer admin, and general filesystem manipulations. I'm all about whatever extensions, plugins, etc. can make my work in the shell more productive and enjoyable. I've recently switched to zsh from bash and installed the oh-my-zsh extensions, as well as installed some totally kickin' vim plugins for C/C++ development (super awesome stuff).

I've got a neat little script for the shell that will run a ticker-like feed of stock information, gleaned from Yahoo Finance. in the terminal. I like combining it with tmux to create an itty bitty sliver at the base of my screen which spits out all the information. You can check out and download the source on Github.

TODO: The ticker is a wee bit offset from where I'd like it to be; it's a small fix, but one that I've yet to get around to. Additionally, I would like to do all my request polling in a separate thread to prevent any display blocking, as well as provide parameterization for polling options, etc.

Anyways, enjoy!