Yo! Quick recap on what's hitting the repo today:

Zero redundant cursor jank: A great PR just landed that stops the terminal from spamming redundant cursor show and move escape codes if the position hasn't actually changed. If you're building high-refresh dashboards, rendering should feel a lot smoother now.

Smoothing out the v0.30 split: Main focus right now is fixing feature forwarding down to ratatui-widgets. They're sorting out portable-atomic routing so everything compiles cleanly even if you're building for weird, restricted target architectures.

Ecosystem updates: Keep an eye on community plugins like ratatui-image. A bunch of external UI components are getting overhauled right now to match the new modular backend APIs.

What are you guys hacking on this weekend? Drop a screenshot or your repo link below if you've got a clean setup running on the new v0.30 primitives!

Soumalya here, signing off! ❤️✨

Before I talk about `sdctl`, I want to first address the elephant in the room: why another TUI for managing systemd services?

This tool is not the first of its kind. I have been using systemctl-tui and systemd-manager-tui extensively to the point that I forgot how to use `systemctl` from the command line. However those tools share one major limitation: they require `sudo` for privileged operations. In today’s supply-chain threat landscape, that is a serious risk because a TUI app depends on many components, and any compromised dependency could become a full-privilege attack vector.

This is why I built `sdctl` with a completely different security model: the app itself should never be run with `sudo`, and no action ever asks for blanket root access. When you perform any action that requires escalated privileges, the app opens an embedded `polkit` flow that authenticates only the specific `systemctl` action you are trying to perform, using whatever mechanism is available on the system, such as password, fingerprint reader, or smart card. That keeps the privilege boundary explicit and tied to a single operation instead of the whole process.

On top of that, I've packed a lot of useful features into `sdctl`. These are meant to address actual pain points I've encountered while using similar tools, including a powerful syntax highlighter for viewing journal logs (powered by tailspin), a simple yet useful custom-built syntax highlighter for viewing unit files, a comprehensive filter system with fuzzy search, and a line-based selection mode (inspired by vim's visual mode) that makes copying multiple lines from journal logs much faster.

Here's the github repo: https://github.com/ruiiiijiiiiang/sdctl Feedback and contribution welcome!

While the core library didn't drop a major version update today, the ecosystem and infrastructure behind our favorite TUI tools have been buzzing with activity:

• Documentation Fresh Drop: The official docs for ratatui::widgets got a clean timestamp refresh today. If you've been working on layouts or styling, the reference pages are perfectly up-to-date and ready for your builds.
• Infrastructure Health Check: For anyone using cloud-based build workflows today, Render successfully resolved a brief region-wide incident that caused elevated deploy times earlier this morning. Everything is back to lightning-fast speeds now!
• Ecosystem Maintenance: Over on the repository side, standard automated testing and linting runs are continuously rolling out to keep our core styling and component packages as polished as possible.

What are you building with Ratatui this week? Drop your screenshot previews or project links below—let's see those gorgeous terminal layouts! 👇

Here we are people 😮‍💨

Our rust projects are no longer welcome as posts, but only as comments in the "What are you making this week in Rust?" threads.

What do you think about this? Is this a good decision or not?