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Advanced Terminal Development
Ghostty
AI Synthesis & Market Narrative
Ghostty is positioned as an advanced terminal emulator, supporting features like sprite rendering and dedicated configuration tools. This aligns with broader trends in terminal development, including new protocols for program status communication.
Correlated Linguistic Patterns
["Ghostty terminal"
"ghostcfg"
"sprites in Kitty and Ghostty"
"Kitty graphics protocol"
"Terminal Protocol for Program Status (OSC 7501)"]
Driving Media Context
ghostcfg 0.1.4
Interactive TUI for Ghostty terminal configuration
Why Full Disk Access Matters—and What Apple Should Fix
Full Disk Access is a blunt instrument with a lousy interface for users and developers alike. Here’s what Apple should fix, which apps legitimately need it, ...
Cbirds: A flock of birds in your terminal
A flock of birds in your terminal: Craig Reynolds' boids, in braille in any terminal and as sprites in Kitty and Ghostty. One C99 program, no dependencies. L...
open-slopware – Alternatives to FOSS projects choosing to use LLMs/AI
Alternatives to FOSS projects choosing to use and/or support LLMs/AI, as well as tips for requesting better policies or forking.
Open Source as We Know It Is Dead
I've been part of open source for most of my life. This year, the projects I love started closing their doors to outside contributors, and I don't blame them...
sliver-gui
Cross-platform Electron GUI for the Sliver C2 framework, providing session and beacon dashboards, payload generation, listeners, loot, and cloud deployment m...
A Terminal Protocol for Program Status (OSC 7501)
I wrote a specification for a new terminal escape sequence: OSC 7501, the Program Status Protocol. It lets any program tell the terminal what it's doing: idl...
alayout-cli added to PyPI
Inspect Android app layouts (Views and Compose) from the terminal
clustop added to PyPI
htop/nvitop-style live view of CPU, RAM and GPU across any set of SSH hosts (GPU clusters, lab servers...)
Rebuilding my development setup in 2026
It's been another busy month and I have been promising myself that I would write about what has been this yet unfinished rabbit hole of my spare time for the...