Will McGugan
@willmcgugan
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Just in time developer. Hyperborean Python expert, PSF fellow, author, humanist, husband, sometimes wildlife photographer. He/him @[email protected]
Edinburgh, Scotland
Joined April 2008
This is what I am working on. 🐸 Toad. A universal interface for agentic coding in the terminal. Follow me for updates. https://t.co/ZR8QreXbOg
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Parsing and emulating ANSI escape sequences is a royal PITA. So many layers of cruft. Find anyone who implemented a terminal emulator and give them a hug.
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Still puzzled by this quite dramatic increase in downloads for Textual. Could it be ilist? A textual app added to the Linux kernel? Or the new installer for arch, also a Textual app. The timing doesn’t quite fit. And the numbers seem too large. 🤷♂️
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Seeing so many awesome Textual apps lately! Here’s another…
Today's project: a Tetris clone built with @willmcgugan’s amazing Textual framework #python $ uvx textual-tetris PRs welcome https://t.co/f3Yest0kPj
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One day I should compile all my micro-optimizations into a book. I will call it "Fast code you should never write".
The ternary operator is faster than the max builtin (and I assume min) for the trivial case of two values. Should you care? Probably not. min and max are self documenting and preferred. Use only in the hottest loops.
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The ternary operator is faster than the max builtin (and I assume min) for the trivial case of two values. Should you care? Probably not. min and max are self documenting and preferred. Use only in the hottest loops.
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Got @willmcgugan's excellent Textual running in a @huggingface Space! Just using the dictionary example app for now, but excited to explore running some AI-focused terminal apps on Spaces!
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Thinking of producing keyboard ASMR videos. I'll also whisper Python code for pay. Any requests?
My terminal "emulator" widget for Textual reach a milestone. It can now accept text input. Next up, mouse control...
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My terminal "emulator" widget for Textual reach a milestone. It can now accept text input. Next up, mouse control...
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The third edition of the Toad Report is out! https://t.co/xy2hjbhhH3 Nanobanana came up with "Toad's Tech Trove" and I'm stealing it. #toad #AI
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Claude gets snotty if I ask it something twice. Accuses me of trying to test it. No Claude, I am not testing you, my fleshy mammalian brain can only store a subset of the information it ingests.
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Just spent my weekend building a TUI text editor in Python because why not? But this isn't just a UI wrapper. I wanted real performance, so I implemented a custom Piece Table data structure from scratch. Under the hood: O(1) operations: Insert/Delete works by moving
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The third edition of the Toad Report is out! https://t.co/xy2hjbhhH3 Nanobanana came up with "Toad's Tech Trove" and I'm stealing it. #toad #AI
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Curious. Textual saw a significant bump in downloads at the end of October. At a loss to explain why. 🤷♂️ Have my Toad posts have driven folk to check out Textual? Or has a Textual app seen a surge in popularity? https://t.co/wlmdEVqCcV
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Awesome to see! @evalstate Integrating Toad with @huggingface 🐸+🤗 Watch this space. Aiming for a December release of Toad.
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Last week, I mentioned a neat way to plot in your terminal with #Python But there are other terminal plotting libraries too. For example, you can plot with Textual if you get the textual-plot package. Here's an example:
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Ok, that is looking much more like htop! htop uses a bunch of escape sequences I hadn't encountered. "It's an older code, sir, but it checks out."
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