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cbushko commented on Ghostty 1.0 ghostty.org/... · Posted by u/matrixhelix

saberience · a year ago

It doesn't work in Windows so how is it cross platform?

Also, I've been using terminals since DOS in 1990 and never once have I had to say, "I wish this terminal had more performance", so I'm not sure that performance is really relevant here. If I write a command to build my project which takes 10 mins to build, does it matter whether the terminal command ran in 10 milliseconds vs 1 millisecond?

In the linked speed demo one command was 8 milliseconds faster than another. Ok?

Is a terminal written in Zig better than one made in C++ or Rust? Again, unsure why its relavant at all.

cbushko · a year ago

| In the linked speed demo one command was 8 milliseconds faster than another. Ok?

For day to day, ls'ing files that speed up won't matter too much. It is when you are tailing logs or working with multi-gig files that it matters.

cbushko commented on Ghostty 1.0 ghostty.org/... · Posted by u/matrixhelix

mitchellh · a year ago

<3 This has been a work of passion for the past two years of my life (off and on). I hope anyone who uses this can feel the love and care I put into this, and subsequently the amazing private beta community (all ~5,000 strong!) that helped improve and polish this into a better release than I ever could alone.

Ghostty got a lot of hype (I cover this in my reflection below), but I want to make sure I call out that there is a good group of EXCELLENT terminals out there, and I'm not claiming Ghostty is strictly better than any of them. Ghostty has different design goals and tradeoffs and if it's right for you great, but if not, you have so many good choices.

Shout out to Kitty, WezTerm, Foot in particular. iTerm2 gets some hate for being relatively slow but nothing comes close to touching it in terms of feature count. Rio is a super cool newer terminal, too. The world of terminals is great.

I’ve posted a personal reflection here, which has a bit more history on why I started this, what’s next, and some of the takeaways from the past two years. https://mitchellh.com/writing/ghostty-1-0-reflection

cbushko · a year ago

I think you've done an excellent job running the community for Ghostty and it is a prime example of how to do it right. From the Discord to Github repos you've been a class act all the way through and have pushed folks to be good, civil internet denizens. Much respect.

If anyone cares to search through Github, they will see loads and loads of Issues and PRs created by Mitchell in many of the related Open Source projects that Ghostty uses/references. From zig to kitty to supporting libraries, Mitchell has been trying to get the terminal community working together and have some sort of standards. A lot of them are like "X does this, Y does that, why are you doing it this way? Can we all do it this way?" and then having Ghostty follow the most reasonable solution (or supporting several!).

cbushko commented on Tailscale SSH tailscale.com/kb/1193/tai... · Posted by u/tosh

cbushko · a year ago

Tailscale ssh is very useful when away from your home network. Setup was pretty easy and the only 'gotcha' that I found was you cannot assign ssh to a mac machine if you are using the gui app. No worries though as it was easy to get tailscaled running with nix-darwin.

I am often away from my home network and my main gaming machine is asleep. I worked around this by installing tailscale + tailscale ssh on my router (yes you can to this!) and using it to send a wake-on-lan packet to my gaming machine.

Some useful fzf code for anyone that wants to get a listing of tailssh machines.

  tailscale status --json | jq -r '
    .Peer[] |
    select(.Tags?[]? | contains("tag:dev")) |
    "\(.DNSName)"' |
          sed 's/\.$//' |
          fzf --ansi --border-label="| Tailscale SSH Hosts |" --height=30% --  border=rounded \
              --margin=2,2,2,2 --prompt "Connect to: " --preview-window=top:40% \
              --bind "j:down,k:up,ctrl-j:preview-down,ctrl-k:preview-up,ctrl-f:preview-page-down,ctrl-b:preview-page-up"

cbushko commented on Ask HN: Resources for older developers? · Posted by u/rlawson

cbushko · 3 years ago

I am 47 and I am the best I have ever been. I might code slower than people 20 years younger than me but I produce much much better code than they do.

There is definitely ageism out there. What you don't get in velocity, I make up in quality.

Also, I think I am wise enough to know that I know nothing and there is still a heck of a lot to learn!

cbushko commented on Ask HN: I've run Linux for 13 years. Is it time to switch to a Mac? · Posted by u/eschluntz

cbushko · 3 years ago

I've used everything. Windows for gaming/work, linux for prod/home and now Mac for work/play. I use docker every day and it's performance on Intel Mac used to be pretty terrible.

Until the M1 came out. It hands down beats every machine I have ever owned. I have an M1 Air, no fan, 10hr battery life, tiny package. It is amazing hardware. Docker is fast on it. Not linux fast but fast enough to always be running a dozen containers.

I find the recommendations saying that 'the software on mac is terrible' to not be the case for me. Sure, I am not running a fancy Wayland/sway tiled setup but the MacOS desktop is not THAT bad; at least it is not Windows.

I mostly use open source software every day. Alacritty (terminal), neovim (IDE), zsh (shell), firefox (browser), obsidian (docs). Spotify, slack and zoom are pretty much the only applications that are not open source.

I use dotfiles and use brew/brewfile to install packages. Brew has problems but apt/yum/etc have problems too. If you really want to keep things clean then you can use Nix on Mac if you wish.

And the Apple ecosystem? It just works and that is all I really care about. I put in my airpods and they can connect to all my devices. If I need to share files I can just air drop them to whatever device I want or just let them sync with iCloud.

I don't have time to fight with technology as I want to spend that time building things or hanging out with the family.

I think Asahi linux on M1/M2 laptops will be pretty amazing in the next year and you can have the best of both worlds.

cbushko commented on Learn Vim (2021) github.com/iggredible/Lea... · Posted by u/sadfdsgf

kzrdude · 3 years ago

Thanks a lot. Maybe I'm starting to see what you are talking about. I have setup a working (?) lazyvim. Let's see where it goes. Some frustrations had to be overcome, most of them turning off unwanted functionality like autopairing parantheses, for example.. The custom notifications/popups also had to be disabled for now since they have some problems (cursor vanishes in light terminal? Important command outputs are only visible for a few seconds?).

cbushko · 3 years ago

I disabled the checker on startup because that dialog was annoying me.

In /config/lazy.lua:

  checker = { enabled = false }, -- automatically check for plugin updates

I've never had a problem with the things you mentioned but the notifications are using either noice or notify. I think the submenu is <leader>sna

cbushko commented on Learn Vim (2021) github.com/iggredible/Lea... · Posted by u/sadfdsgf

kzrdude · 3 years ago

Could you elaborate, why is LazyVim more sane? It too seems to require understanding a lot about their organization of configuration. (It doesn't help that I'm still not migrated from Vim to Neovim and lua, because I just didn't find a neovim configuration that was better than what I have.)

cbushko · 3 years ago

There are a couple things:

- Most distros seem to like wrapping functionality and having you use their own convenience functions to get things done. For example, for AstroVim, astrovim.<function> is all over their config files. This is fine if you were a distro developer and you were trying to make things easy for yourself but I do not find it easier for the user when neovim already has simple lua based functions. It is another barrier to entry as you have to learn how the distro authors put things together. - The config for LazyVim is will thought out. For example, it has 2 directories: /config & /plugins. That makes it simple to figure out where things should go. keymaps go in keymaps.lua, options go in options.lua... it kind of makes sense. - The plugin config for disabling a builtin plugin is the same as where you would configure your own plugins. It is literally:

  return {
    { "github/plugin.nvim", enabled = false },
  }

vs

  return {
    { "github/myplugin.nvim", {config here if you want}},
  }

- There are no weird plugin loaders and most examples you see from plugin authors are copy/paste into that bracket section. - The LazyVim website is decent. Not perfect though. https://www.lazyvim.org/ - The starter is a great place to start your setup. https://github.com/LazyVim/starter - The plugin manager, lazy.nvim, seems to be a lot simpler and well thought out compared to others plugin managers (like packer). It has autoloading, caching, a UI, etc. - Folke, the distro creator, has written many popular plugins and knows quite a bit when it comes to configuring plugins. That seems to be paying off in the design.

To be fair, there are some design decisions that I don't agree with when it comes to the LazyVim layout itself. Putting everything in editor.lua or ui.lua instead of per-plugin config is not how I would have done it. It was pretty easy to figure out where the plugin settings were though because they match the categories on the website.

Note: I mainly switched to Neovim as I am find that there just seems to be much more development in the ecosystem and the number of amazing plugins coming out is staggering.

cbushko commented on Wine Wayland Driver gitlab.winehq.org/wine/wi... · Posted by u/rom-antics

rjzzleep · 3 years ago

Funny, I was literally just looking at this issue today. I switched to wayland a few weeks ago, just because it seems to save a lot of battery power. But so much basic functionality is still broken it's infuriating. And then so many things seem to follow the "unix functionality" and as a result they're half baked tools that aren't really working properly IMHO.

A lot of these issues have fixes or workarounds directly in KDE.

For reference I'm using sway. swayidle is an idle daemon, where the maintainer doesn't think that it matters whether its connected to power or not. You're supposed to create your own scripts around it that handles ac connect and disconnects.

There's a tool to do flux like color warmth setting. One of them doesn't allow you to toggle, so you have create your own toggle script that kills or restarts it. The other one is controllable, but doesn't actually account for time or timezone.

XWayland has had 2 or 3 patches to handle hidpi when the main wayland screen has fractional scaling, none of them are merged and they seem hardly active. KDE works around that by allowing you to turn it off for xwayland clients. Sway just passes it down and blurs everything.

When I exit a wayland session and then restart it the screen locks up. This doesn't happen with normal X.

And then there is electron. Slack is not the only app that ignores electron settings and doesn't run with wayland support. In chrome and electron it's supposedly supported but you have to toggle it yourself? What is this madness?

These things seem like basic functionality for me. I don't really get it. Sure, maybe I shouldn't expect a proper experience for random sway tools, so that makes the first two points irrelevant. But the fact that years in they still haven't found a proper solution on passing down hidpi for xwayland? That's incomprehensible for me.

cbushko · 3 years ago

Please help the community and make sure that these issues are documented in Github/whatever issue tracker.

Or if you have the skills please contribute back and fixes these things that bug you!

cbushko commented on Learn Vim (2021) github.com/iggredible/Lea... · Posted by u/sadfdsgf

eldenring · 3 years ago

Unfortunately there is no ecosystem. Helix does not provide an extension interface.

cbushko · 3 years ago

That is too bad. If they did then they would probably garner huge community support and the gaps would be quickly filled in.

cbushko commented on Learn Vim (2021) github.com/iggredible/Lea... · Posted by u/sadfdsgf

jalino23 · 3 years ago

https://github.com/helix-editor/helix is the answer mate

cbushko · 3 years ago

I have played with helix and I do like how it comes with everything out of the box. Helix is doing great things but it isn't there yet.

I can customize Neovim the way I want and the plugin ecosystem is huge. Maybe when Helix gets there it will be worth the switch.

p.s. kakoune style of modal editing makes so much sense and I wish vim had started out like that.