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Overview

A terminal-based brightness controller for Linux that uses the Bubble Tea framework for the interactive UI. Built to avoid needing a GUI application for a task that should take one keypress.

Features

  • Interactive TUI with keyboard controls
  • Reads and writes to /sys/class/backlight/
  • Single binary — no daemon, no dependencies at runtime
  • Works with any backlight device exposed by the kernel

Why I built it

I was tired of reaching for a graphical brightness slider when I was already in the terminal. A simple TUI felt like exactly the right abstraction — visible feedback, keyboard-driven, instant.

This was also a good excuse to learn the Bubble Tea framework and get comfortable with Go’s approach to file I/O and system interfaces.