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jdorfman··on Libghostty 1.0
I’m using the beta. So far so good. I’m swapping between that and Herdr. Anyone who writes macOS apps take notes on Rex’s onboarding. It was so easy to enable/grant permissions.
jdorfman··on Libghostty 1.0
lol now that I read it back it might seem like that. I’m just a Mitchell Stan.
jdorfman··on Libghostty 1.0
> “And a whole wave of new terminals and "agentic" coding tools, such as herdr and cmux, have been built on it rather than writing yet another emulator.”

Mitchell could have easily snuck his competing product Rex in there but resisted. Respect.

jdorfman··on Herdr has released native app
It works great in Ghostty not sure if I need another standalone app. I’ll definitely try it out but my expectations are low.
jdorfman··on Roku developer repositories moved from GitHub to GitLab
Fixed https://gitlab.com/rokudev/dev-doc/-/merge_requests/6
jdorfman··on The Elizabeth Holmes documentary “You Can See Everything” is deceiving
No one including my wife was interested in seeing it so I went by myself. It was long, but interesting. The author hits the nail on the head:

“You sit there believing you’re watching a documentary about a woman who deceived the world, only to discover that you’re also watching a demonstration of how easy it is to deceive you.”

I couldn’t agree more.

jdorfman··on Homebrew 7.0.0
Congrats and thank you to you and your team for maintaining critical infrastructure we all take for granted.
jdorfman··on Herdr is joining Y Combinator. The runtime stays open
Congrats Can. Love your product, it has become the default way to orchestrate agents in my terminal.
jdorfman··on Thanks HN for 15 years of support and helping me find my life's work
HN wouldn’t be HN without Dang. Thank you Dang.
jdorfman··on Oak: Git for Agents
One has a wait list. The other doesn’t.
jdorfman··on I am retiring from tech to live offline
For those scratching their heads asking who is this guy and why should I care?

He has been tackling the open source sustainability issue since launching gittip circa 2012. Since then millions of dollars have been raised for open source because of him. Sure it’s a drop in the bucket but he did it.

Chad is a friend of mine. You can’t find a nicer person in tech than him. I hope this is temporary because he can still make a huge impact. Either way I respect his decision and hope he finds peace offline. TBH I’m a little jealous.

jdorfman··on Claude for Creative Work
I hope that Claude will replace the firefly speech to text models that Adobe has in Premiere. They are so bad. If you know, you know.
jdorfman··on An AI agent deleted our production database. The agent's confession is below
Correction: They deleted their prod db and then they had another agent write an em dash filled postmortem. No shame.
jdorfman··on The buns in McDonald's Japan's burger photos are all slightly askew
I believe it has to do with

https://boingboing.net/2026/04/08/japans-truth-in-packaging-...

jdorfman··on Addicted to Claude Code–Help
I was on a company retreat last month. My coworker was on their phone the whole time on the bus ride over to dinner I finally looked over and it was a Claude Code session. The addiction is real.
jdorfman··on Atuin’s New Runbook Execution Engine
I haven’t tried the desktop but I use the CLI tool multiple times a day (sometimes hour) and I just want to thank the team for making my life easier.
jdorfman··on Customize Nano Text Editor (2022)
I’ve been using nano as my default bash profile editor for over 15 years. It’s also great for quick updates for other config files.

Definitely going to enable mouse support. Didn’t know that was possible.

jdorfman··on Claudeskills.cc – Share, Discover, and Reuse Claude/OpenAI Agent Skills
Anthropic legal will be reaching out tomorrow if not Monday.
jdorfman··on Libghostty is coming
Great question. For me it feels faster (anecdotally) and certain TUI components don’t break. It also is probably my bias of loving his work as well as everyone at work using it. Hive mentality I suppose.
jdorfman··on Libghostty is coming
The passion and attention to detail Mitchell has for developer experience is beyond me. I remember the first time I used Vagrant (2011, Santa Monica California) like it was yesterday it was that impactful.

I never thought in a million years I would even think of ditching iTerm2 but when Ghostty dropped I installed it and fell in love.

jdorfman··on Show HN: MCP Defender – OSS AI Firewall for Protecting MCP in Cursor/Claude etc
Amp Code
jdorfman··on Show HN: MCP Defender – OSS AI Firewall for Protecting MCP in Cursor/Claude etc
This is cool. Are you accepting other mcp clients? The one I use isn’t listed.
jdorfman··on Show HN: Open Rewind – POC for audio and screen and video streaming to S3
I pay for Rewind, and honestly, it’s one of the best investments I've made in software. After each Zoom meeting, I receive a summary of everything discussed, including action items to add to my to-do list. Every Monday, I also ask it to remind me of what I accomplished the previous week to help me prepare for my 1:1 meeting. Everything is recorded locally, allowing me to search for anything I did earlier in the day quickly.
jdorfman··on AI Stole the Joy of Programming
Ping community@sourcegraph.com and I'll get a thread going. :)
jdorfman··on Introducing The Model Context Protocol
I hope so, I use Claude Desktop multiple times a day.
jdorfman··on Introducing The Model Context Protocol
Cody (VS Code plugin) is supporting MCP https://sourcegraph.com/blog/cody-supports-anthropic-model-c...
jdorfman··on Computer use, a new Claude 3.5 Sonnet, and Claude 3.5 Haiku
We are live!
jdorfman··on Tell HN: DanBC has died
RIP Dan. Thanks for your contributions to HN and mental health communities.
jdorfman··on Sourcegraph went dark
> am banned from the Sourcegraph Discord for agitating for change

Conrad, you were banned from our Discord for being extremely rude and hostile to our team. We warned you that you were breaking our CoC, but you ignored it.

jdorfman··on Sourcegraph went dark
Submit it anyway, I'll approve it.
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