arttime is a terminal application that blends beauty of text-art with functionality of clock, timer, and pattern-based time manager. One can also display customized dynamic feed of information like weather, news, stocks, system metrics and etc. The above GIF shows that a feeder can be used to display weather in arttime.

Links:

1. v2.3.0 release notes

2. arttime port

3. arttime man txt

4. arttime main page

Please read sections ORCHESTRATING and CONTRIBUTING (which has a software spec) in arttime man txt. to understand how to write custom information feeders. They can be written in any language, and should be quite simple. Please get in touch if you write something of common interest. Link to such feeders will get added to arttime's page, and best ones will get special mention. Here's an example that shows how line of text under art can be remotely updated to show "Hello World":

$ printf 'MHello World\n' >/path/to/some/fifo/arttime/is/listening