Reid Burke

You may have heard of React Scan for automatically detecting performance issues. It uses Bippy internally. From the README:

a react fiber is a “unit of execution.” this means react will do something based on the data in a fiber. each fiber either represents a composite (function/class component) or a host (dom element).

fibers are useful because they contain information about the react app (component props, state, contexts, etc.). a simplified version of a fiber looks roughly like this:

interface Fiber {
  // component type (function/class)
  type: any;

  child: Fiber | null;
  sibling: Fiber | null;

  // stateNode is the host fiber (e.g. DOM element)
  stateNode: Node | null;

  // parent fiber
  return: Fiber | null;

  // the previous or current version of the fiber
  alternate: Fiber | null;

  // saved props input
  memoizedProps: any;

  // state (useState, useReducer, useSES, etc.)
  memoizedState: any;

  // contexts (useContext)
  dependencies: Dependencies | null;

  // effects (useEffect, useLayoutEffect, etc.)
  updateQueue: any;
}

Further reading and watching:

• Why does React have “Rules of Hooks?”
• How does React re-render internally?
• Live visualization of a fiber tree

why does React have "Rules of Hooks?" pic.twitter.com/jOL4TpKeTn

— Aiden Bai (@aidenybai) December 31, 2024

Ghostty is a fast, feature-rich, and cross-platform terminal emulator that uses platform-native UI and GPU acceleration.

Here’s my configuration. The quick terminal is very satisfying.

font-family = TX-02
keybind = global:cmd+grave_accent=toggle_quick_terminal
theme = xcodedarkhc
window-colorspace = display-p3

Note: I don’t use dark and light theme modes because of a visual bug when opening splits and tabs when specifying them.

Combined with Berkeley Mono v2, next year is sharing up to become the year of the terminal.

Whenever there’s a new terminal emulator, I’d hesitantly try it out and then switch back to iTerm2

Ghostty is the exception. It’s so snappy, doesn’t get in my way, has sensible default settings, etc. It’s now my go-to choice ?

brew install –cask ghostty pic.twitter.com/ooDPHTUujb

— Jane Manchun Wong (@wongmjane) December 31, 2024

Really enjoying the Ghostty documentation. The man page and HTML docs are the same content. You get a local copy of the HTML docs. Sweet precision. pic.twitter.com/aqUyiNawsX

— Reid Burke (@reid) January 2, 2025

Here's mine but with v1.008 pic.twitter.com/6AeHQOKahk

— Sam (@beefysam211) December 27, 2024

https://t.co/39Xj39wheA ? pic.twitter.com/PH0qejFB4z

— Mitchell Hashimoto (@mitchellh) December 26, 2024

Thanks! It feels great to see people I respect and look up to enjoying what I've been working on. If you ever have any issues, let me know.

— Mitchell Hashimoto (@mitchellh) January 2, 2025