Box CLI Maker: Make Highly Customized Boxes for CLI

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A Go library that builds highly customizable terminal boxes, reproducing and extending box functionality with 8 built-in styles, Unicode emoji support, multi-line and tab alignment, custom title positioning, Windows console fixes and truecolor and terminal detection. Source installs via go install, the API uses a Config struct (px/py padding, box type, title/content colors) and embeds ASCII art safely. It reaches production-quality after three years, is used in minikube and has been featured on GitHub and golang weekly.

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1. 0:00Introduction
2. 0:41Project features and installation
3. 2:09Project journey
4. 3:34Basic box creation
5. 4:21Color customization
6. 5:49Content alignment
7. 6:41Title positioning
8. 7:24ANSI escape codes
9. 8:06ASCII art and custom boxes
10. 9:19CLI integration
11. 10:03Project impact and conclusion

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