How I built a CLI poker (in Dart, playable over SSH)

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I thought some people might be interested in my CLI poker game. It’s built in Dart, of course, and open source.

You can play it immediately, without installing anything, as long as you have ssh installed:

ssh play@poker.filiph.net

I had an itch to build something like this recently. I wrote a whole article about why, and about how it all works:

It’s super nerdy so I also posted this to HackerNews, so here’s the link in case you want to discuss over there.

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Now I’m tempted to write a bot that uses Gemini to play poker on your service. :slight_smile:

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Haha. (Please don’t.)

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This reminded me of this chat room program, it also has a public server Why aren’t we using SSH for everything? | shazow.net

There were some other random services like this, forgot about most of them, the star wars one you mentioned I didn’t know.

There were some MUDs too that had ssh access, most of them are accessible through telnet, no ssh, but telnet is not encrypted.

Found one:

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This is so cool!