Whether it’s way back when I used to fumble through htop at work to figure out what’s happening with some on-prem server, or if it’s today when lazydocker and k9s have grown into critical tools that maximize my productivity, I’ve always been a huge fan of terminal UIs–especially those that are highly interactive.

In this post I’d like to cover a cool python decorator that’s part of the built-in functools library called @singledispatch. It’s a favorite of mine and something I’ve been using quite a bit over the past year.