speedread mit Homebrew, Nix installieren

Projektlinks

• Homepage

Befehle und Aliase

• speedread

Projektgeschichte

The GitHub repository was created in March 2014. Its README describes speedread as a simple terminal-based open source Spritz-alike that displays input text one word at a time, aligned on optimal reading points, so the eye can stay fixed while reading quickly.

Adoptionsgeschichte

The project published a v1.0 release in January 2016 and later appeared in package managers including Homebrew and Nix according to the input package facts. Its adoption is modest but durable, centered on users who want a minimal command-line version of an RSVP reading tool.

Wie es verwendet wird

The documented usage is to pipe text into the program and set a reading speed, for example by sending a file through speedread at 250 words per minute or higher. It does not need credentials or a config file, which makes it fit naturally into shell pipelines.

Warum Paket-Nerds sich dafür interessieren

Package nerds care because speedread is the sort of one-file-ish terminal utility package managers preserve well: no account, no service, no GUI, just a narrow interface that composes with cat, curl, pbpaste, and other text-producing commands.

Zeitleiste

• 2014: pasky/speedread repository created on GitHub.
• 2016: v1.0 release published.
• 2020s: Available through Homebrew and Nix package facts in this dataset.

Related projects

• The README positions speedread as an open source Spritz-alike.
• It belongs to the broader family of terminal filters and RSVP reading tools.

Quellen

• https://api.github.com/repos/pasky/speedread
• https://github.com/pasky/speedread
• https://github.com/pasky/speedread/releases
• source_facts.package-manager