Today's crosswind at cruise. 😜

Back in LA. Overpriced everything but you can’t beat this vibe.

My most degenerate behavior is when people send me a shared Google Doc and I copy and paste it into an Apple Note and send a shared link back.

Waymo is truly one of the best parts of traveling to SF. So relaxing.

Beautiful day to fly a jet.

The unsexy truth for the build in public hypeboys is that its not a lot of work or time to get a sexy demo, but it is a lot of work and time to translate that into meaningful value (a lot of that being non-technical). And I see too many people repeatedly celebrating the demo.

Be wary of people who spew AI hype and screenshot their army of agents but don't seem to be shipping anything but demos. I'm a big fan of AI assistance and use agents and chat everyday, but there's a ton of engagement farming happening out there.

I should add that users on older distros that don’t meet this min version have had success using Flatpak or Snaps. We’re working on having official builds of these but in the mean time many community options exist. I’ll add this note to the linked page, too.

Ghostty for Linux now has an officially documented min version policy for GTK/Adw: Minor releases will require the minimum GTK/Adw version in the latest LTS release of Debian, Fedora, Ubuntu (practically its always Debian). Patch releases never bump reqs.

OOP and managed memory is good, actually. for specifically, exclusively GUIs. 🤭 Gotcha!.

This is legitimately very good. This is how voice assistants should be! Fairly responsive, very natural, can interrupt freely. I am extremely skeptical about anything AI tells me but boy I really wish Siri or Alexa was like this. (Location isn’t secret, I’m not usually here)

Ghostty on Linux now has native GUI for showing progress bars (as reported by ConEmu's OSC 9;4 code). The style can be customized through GTK CSS (e.g. colors, size, and more). The terminal escape code: Ignore my missing "new tab" icon lol.

As an example of the level of detail we try to go through with this, if you visit on macOS vs Linux, you see a different chrome around our dancing ghost that more closely matches the typical style of of your OS. macOS on the left, Linux on the right.

This is something a lot of major corporations are too afraid to do because "brand identity," but that's crap. Having an identity that meets users where they are makes your product feel better and more at home. Brand is important, but you can preserve it while fitting in!.

Ghostty on Linux has a new icon that generally fits in better with Linux desktop ecosystem while preserving the Ghostty identity across platforms (no one on macOS is going to misidentify the icon on Linux and vice versa). I think it looks beautiful on my Linux systems!

Excellent blog on `font-size-adjust` highlights more complexity about font rendering: We just implemented an automatic form of `font-size-adjust` in Ghostty ~2wks ago! Afaik the only terminal to do this so far. This problem can

The best part of having an Intel CPU again is stable Valgrind! Valgrind on macOS was always funky and for some reason it never worked on my aarch64 Linux VM. But we’re cooking now. Will share some results soon. Just wanted to share how much I love Valgrind.

In hindsight, checking to see if Treesitter had a Valgrind suppression file format syntax was. ambitious. This should be a well scoped and fun project for someone who wants to or likes writting Treesitter parsers though:

Tim is a Ghostty maintainer but also a leading expert on terminal capabilities. He authored not one, but two excellent TUI libs (one in Go, one Zig). He's also the author of multiple terminal protocols that made it across the emulator ecosystem. Amp TUI is about to be amazing.

Amazon out here trying to capitalize on the ghost branding I see. They can't help themselves but constantly steal from open source. 🤭