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Not using Xcode is the greatest improvement in quality of life I have known aside from recovering from a debilitating back injury. So good.

So you’re saying there’s a chance that Oracle will die? Sign me up.

iTerm2 author here. This could be used as a link in an exploit chain but by itself the claim in the title is massively overblown. I’m on a family vacation but I’ll release a fix wh…

Here’s mine https://apps.apple.com/us/app/snortfolio/id6755617457 30kloc client and server combined. I built this as an experiment in building an app without reading any of the cod…

I moved across the country to work for Palm on a secret project which was revealed to be the Foleo only after I started. I spent a year trying to make the web browser with a totall…

That wouldn't very well because Date.now() isn't monotonic.

Hi! I’m the author. I wrote my thoughts on the AI furor here (in two unlinked parts because I’m apparently bad at computers): https://techhub.social/@gnachman/112481098349565431 ht…

I worked on this as an intern in 1997 and led it for a while. AMA

iTerm2 has code to detect when the current host changes and then disables paste bracketing. An ssh session suddenly ending is a common cause of it being left on with annoying conse…

All but one of my monitors are or were sold by Apple. So they were tested and are usb c and need no dongles. The other is a low dpi monitor with no special features besides hdr. Th…

I have five monitors. When it works, it's great. The other 5% of the time it's a giant pain in the butt. I don't know why this part of macOS is so incredibly buggy. It often forget…

If you got an offer from Facebook they would beat it. I did this in 2012 and instantly had 10x the RSUs. Some Googlers thought it was immoral to do this. It was at this time that c…

WhatsApp’s encrypted backups use OPAQUE. Source: https://scontent.whatsapp.net/v/t39.8562-34/241394876_546674...

There is still a ton of diversity (underline color, curly underlines, synchronization, and image support for example), but it's nearly impossible to figure out what features are av…

If anyone from Github is here, can you please allow attachments of unrecognized file types? You won't let users attach their binary .plist prefs files and this makes Github issues …

I released iTerm2 version 3.4.0 this morning with Big Sur support. Please update because 3.3 has various issues with it.

Yes! I compose an email to a big group of people I respect. That forces me to be extra careful.

I was recently involved in an unwanted meaning issue where my app icon looked like "SB", which I learned is offensive to some Chinese speakers. Too bad it doesn't come up in wordsa…

It's amusing that they have a link to buy a square cm for $80 just above the graph showing that it will cost €0,1 in 2020.

I sure wish it were wrong. If macOS’s text rendering primitives could be used asynchronously or concurrently the situation would be significantly better. I’ve spent probably hundre…

There is an incomplete test suite for terminal emulators. It was my paternity leave project many years ago. Contributions are welcome. https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/terminal-wg/es…

I just discovered this yesterday when a user filed a bug against iTerm2. It caused a problem for reflow because it looks like one long line. Took a minute to makes sense of what wa…

Since Gitlab is listening: users sometimes attach files to issues on my project and then regret it. There doesn’t seem to be any way to permanently delete such an upload. Sometimes…