Mitchell Hashimoto
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@mitchellh
Co-founder of
@Superlogical. Creator of Ghostty. 👻 Prev founded
@HashiCorp, created Vagrant, Terraform, Vault, and others.
Los Angeles, CA
Joined January 2008
Something I routinely am in awe about is the compute amplification every commit has today vs. 20 years ago, at least personally. Back then, my personal computer was only non-idle when I was working locally. I ran tests locally. When I pushed, there was no CI. The tests
A couple more notes on this: First, the xterm.js benchmarks were very noisy. A lot of the results relied on whether they got lucky with the V8 JIT/inliner. e.g. the frame times for ASCII ranged from 20us to 100us (!!!). For the purpose of optimism, I only used the fastest times
libghostty for WebAssembly got a lot of love recently and is now very, very, very good. I spent the day building harnesses and comparing to xterm.js and here are the results: faster at IO, faster at reflow, faster at rendering. Like, a lot a lot faster. We now provide pre-built
libghostty for WebAssembly got a lot of love recently and is now very, very, very good. I spent the day building harnesses and comparing to xterm.js and here are the results: faster at IO, faster at reflow, faster at rendering. Like, a lot a lot faster. We now provide pre-built
Look how good these themes are. They permeate through the app plus into the terminal. We built out a set of 41 fully original human designer curated themes. We also built a full in browser theme editor. The plan is to open source with a permissive license and package them all
It's Friday, lets talk about themes. For
@superlogicalwe've created a suite of 41 original themes for both light and dark modes that are portable across all our clients. Themes tint not just the ANSI terminal colors, but the entire application chrome.
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I'm so incredibly tired of seeing low-effort AI-designed web pages. I basically bounce off any new product immediately when I see it (never get a chance to judge the product itself). Lots of thin lines, glowy styles, inconsistent fonts, lots of monospace. You know who you are.
