I built "sysview" — a beautiful terminal system monitor for developers

Every developer has been there: you're deep in a debugging session, your laptop fan is screaming, and you need to know right now — which process is eating your CPU, what port is blocking your server, how much RAM is left. You open five different tools or start copy-pasting lsof and ps aux | grep incantations from memory. There had to be a better way. So I built sysview — a TypeScript-based CLI that gives you a color-coded, opinionated view of your entire system in one command. No dashboards to set up, no agents to install, no config files. npm install -g @12britz/sysview 💡 Why I built this My day job involves performance testing at scale — running load tests, monitoring resource exhaustion, diagnosing bottlenecks on Linux servers and dev machines alike. Tools like htop are great but don't give you quick CLI-composable output. lsof -i -n -P works but the output is a wall of text. df -h , free -m , ps aux — you're constantly context-switching between commands. I wanted something that fel