hackfetch

hackfetch is a Hack Club themed system fetch tool, written in Go, that prints your system info next to themed ASCII art and your live Hackatime coding stats. I built it for Stardance.

Why I built it

Tools like neofetch are a rite of passage for people who love their terminal, but I wanted one that felt like it belonged to the Hack Club community and that showed something more personal than RAM and uptime: how much I had actually been coding, pulled live from Hackatime.

How it works

hackfetch gathers system information, calls the Hackatime API for live coding stats, and renders everything alongside a set of Hack Club themed ASCII art pieces. It is a single Go binary, so it stays fast and portable across machines.

hackfetch forest theme — One of the Hack Club themed outputs.

Challenges

Collecting system information consistently across different operating systems in Go.
Designing ASCII art and a color theme that looked good in a wide range of terminals.
Fetching and formatting the live Hackatime stats cleanly without slowing the tool down.

hackfetch rocket theme — Themed art rendered next to live stats.

Outcome

A fun, fast terminal tool that shows off both your machine and your coding activity, themed for the Hack Club community and shipped for Stardance.