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Ghostty is now non-profit

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Re: Ghostty is now non-profit

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Post by Copenjin »

dizhn wrote: post #89
Copenjin wrote: post #85

> A non-profit structure provides enforceable assurances: the mission cannot be quietly changed, funds cannot be diverted to private benefit, and the project cannot be sold off or repurposed for commercial gain. What does he mean, isn't this what OpenAI just did, I'm confused guys

No way! You need to incorporate a whole other company for that. By the way, it's a terminal emulator. I think we'll be fine if they pull the rug.

Yeah, no doubt considering it's Hashimoto and considering the project, it was just a joke on what OpenAI did with their non-profit.

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Post by conradev »

sundarurfriend wrote: post #125
conradev wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Hack Club builds software, so the students naturally built a banking product to scale their fiscal sponsorship: https://hackclub.com/fiscal-sponsorship/ I was working with Hack Club students on an experimental VPN client ( https://github.com/hackclub/burrow ) but never got the momentum to finish it. Made some great friends, though! It's a really fantastic organization. The students have one big global Slack instance.…

> The students have one big global Slack instance. Are you back on Slack as the primary comms channel after their sudden attempt to upcharge you (followed by the U-turn after the PR backlash)? Do you have some mirroring and other kind of fallback strategy if something like that happens again? (Context for those who missed it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45283887 )

I do not speak for the 'club, but I believe it was resolved: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45292042

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Post by cpach »

memco wrote: post #99
cpach wrote: post #82

Earlier quoted context omitted.

A while ago I compiled Ghostty from HEAD, because it had a bug fix I cared for. It was a very stable and pleasant experience. No hassle whatsoever.

If you'd like you can also use `tip` as the update channel to get the nightly build binary without having to compile it yourself: https://ghostty.org/docs/config/reference#auto-update-channe...

Ah. Cool!

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Post by jeron »

arjie wrote: post #69

Mitchell Hashimoto is a real programmer in the old vein. It's lovely to see him succeed. Ghostty is fantastic to use. There was a devtools blackhole era once where if you got in that business you were just giving things away and never got to reap the rewards. Then there was this era of founders who figured out how to make it sticky and capture value in a Pareto-optimal way. Love to see it.

hashicorp made him a billionaire, ghostty is really more of a pet project lol

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Post by conradev »

chrismorgan wrote: post #205
simonw wrote: post #2

I wasn't aware of Hack Club before and wow, their fiscal sponsorship program is enormous: https://hackclub.com/fiscal-sponsorship/directory/ - looks like they cover more than 2,500 organizations! The Python Software Foundation acts as a fiscal sponsor for a much smaller set of orgs (20 listed on https://www.python.org/psf/fiscal-sponsorees/ ) and it keeps our accounting team pretty busy just looking after those. Hack…

> their fiscal sponsorship program is enormous: https://hackclub.com/fiscal-sponsorship/directory/ Ouch, that is enormous. They forgot to handle images properly, so they’re serving ginormous images in inefficient formats instead of scaled thumbnails in efficient formats—just the first page transfers more than 40MB, and the second page is just as bad, and the third significantly worse. You get things like 11827×13107…

and as with most things in Hack Club... it's open source :)

https://github.com/hackclub/hcb/issues/12314

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Post by Fnoord »

catlover76 wrote: post #124
arjie wrote: post #69

Mitchell Hashimoto is a real programmer in the old vein. It's lovely to see him succeed. Ghostty is fantastic to use. There was a devtools blackhole era once where if you got in that business you were just giving things away and never got to reap the rewards. Then there was this era of founders who figured out how to make it sticky and capture value in a Pareto-optimal way. Love to see it.

I always found the fact that he named a company after himself to be pretty off-putting, personally Also, didn't said company piss people off in some way that led to Open Tofu being created?

Or it shows the person stands behind their company, and isn't shy to take the responsibility.

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Post by pprotas »

trueno wrote: post #28
dagi3d wrote: post #26

I really love Ghostty. Thanks to it, my comeback to (n)vim has been quite smooth. Keybindings with the CMD key works right away without having to send any escape sequence or similar. It just works™

ive found ghostty to be a pretty decent replacement for iterm2, some bugs still being worked out and i havent always had the best luck with the guake dropdown style terminal but all in all it's pretty nice. sort of miss the additional hot-key invoking options iterm2 had (i could double tap control or cmd to invoke) and ghostty is a lil more limited there, but overall its solid, doesn't feel bloated. iterm2's settings…

Regarding the SSH issue (if anyone else reading this had the same):

Certain CLI tools complain about unknown $TERM env vars. For example, I could not open vim when SSHing into my Hetzner VPS in Ghostty. The fix is to set TERM to some well-known alternative before running your tool, like so: TERM=xterm vim

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Post by davidsainez »

catlover76 wrote: post #124
arjie wrote: post #69

Mitchell Hashimoto is a real programmer in the old vein. It's lovely to see him succeed. Ghostty is fantastic to use. There was a devtools blackhole era once where if you got in that business you were just giving things away and never got to reap the rewards. Then there was this era of founders who figured out how to make it sticky and capture value in a Pareto-optimal way. Love to see it.

I always found the fact that he named a company after himself to be pretty off-putting, personally Also, didn't said company piss people off in some way that led to Open Tofu being created?

Ever heard of Debian or Linux?

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Post by jwr »

danilafe wrote: post #198

I keep seeing Ghostty in the news, and I've tried it, but it feels like just another terminal emulator to men. This coming from someone who spends 90% of the workday in the terminal. Asking in good faith -- could someone tell me what's special about Ghostty compared to alternatives?

It's just better in every way than anything else I have ever tried (at least on a Mac). The author cares and it shows.

BTW, I recently discovered shaders and cursor_blaze is absolutely awesome.

Re: Ghostty is now non-profit

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Post by walletdrainer »

cholantesh wrote: post #186
mindcrash wrote: post #71

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's a little tongue-in-cheek, but as you can see elsewhere in this discussion thread he mentions this himself on his own X account: "get asked the same about terminals all the time. “How will you turn this into a business? What’s the monetization strategy?” The monetization strategy is that my bank account has 3 commas mate." https://x.com/mitchellh/status/1964785527741427940 Take a good guess where the three commas…

I didn't think it was possible for anyone to express this thought more obnoxiously than DHH but here we are.

I think the bigger thing here is that even with three commas in his bank account he lacks the good sense to not associate with DHH.
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