Ghostty is leaving GitHub(mitchellh.com)

3380 points by WadeGrimridge 6 months ago | 1008 comments

Mitchell Hashimoto's blog post announcing that the Ghostty terminal emulator project is moving off GitHub, reflecting on his long history with the platform.

Superlogical – Mitchell Hashimoto(mitchellh.com)

128 points by tambourine_man 2 months ago | 34 comments

Libghostty is coming(mitchellh.com)

774 points by kingori 1 year ago | 243 comments

Mitchell Hashimoto's blog post announcing libghostty, starting with libghostty-vt, a zero-dependency library for parsing terminal sequences and maintaining terminal state.

Zig builds are getting faster(mitchellh.com)

409 points by emschwartz 1 year ago | 191 comments

Mitchell Hashimoto's blog post describing how Zig 0.15.1 has improved build times, using the Ghostty project's upgrade as an example.

Summing ASCII encoded integers on Haswell at almost the speed of memcpy(blog.mattstuchlik.com)

114 points by iliekcomputers 2 years ago | 34 comments

Reorient GitHub pull requests around changesets(mitchellh.com)

192 points by jamesog 3 years ago | 155 comments

Do the simplest thing that could possibly work(seangoedecke.com)

1015 points by dondraper36 1 year ago | 364 comments

Blog post by Sean Goedecke arguing engineers should understand the current system deeply and then do the simplest thing that could possibly work.

Domain expertise has always been the real moat(brethorsting.com)

774 points by aaronbrethorst 4 months ago | 484 comments

Blog post arguing that agentic AI shifts software's binding constraint from building code to judging correctness, making domain expertise the real moat.

TODOs aren't for doing(sophiebits.com)

380 points by todsacerdoti 1 year ago | 218 comments

A blog post by Sophie Alpert arguing that TODO comments are valuable as documentation of known issues even if never acted on, and shouldn't be auto-deleted or tracked.

Prevent cognitive debt by manually retyping LLM-generated code(ankursethi.com)

502 points by mpweiher 2 months ago | 413 comments

A personal blog post arguing that developers should manually retype code generated by LLM coding assistants to keep understanding it and avoid cognitive debt.

The new skill in AI is not prompting, it's context engineering(philschmid.de)

832 points by robotswantdata 1 year ago | 467 comments

Blog post by Philipp Schmid arguing that context engineering, supplying LLMs with the right information and tools, matters more than prompting for AI agents.

Good software knows when to stop(ogirardot.writizzy.com)

519 points by ssaboum 7 months ago | 261 comments

Blog post by Olivier Girardot arguing that good software should know when to stop adding features, opening with a hypothetical surprising change to the ls command.