Knowledge Updates

Observations while developing web applications and creating great software.

Ghostty ↗
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
2024-12-31 #
Native TypeScript support in Node.js

Node.js now supports TypeScript.

Wrote up a full summary (posted below).

Here's the juiciest bit – the TSConfig you'll need to run it: pic.twitter.com/z9qmpyXEEr
— Matt Pocock (@mattpocockuk) December 27, 2024

2024-12-31 #
Avoiding flash of inaccurate content

Use React Router Loaders and SSR.

Yep. Either provide the right HTML for the document request, or don't render anything until you have all the data and know what to render.

CSR has a UX ceiling for initial page load, SSR is the best UX potential, but requires a bit more thought.
— Kent C. Dodds ? (@kentcdodds) December 26, 2024

2024-12-31 #
Ladybird considering Swift

We've been evaluating a number of C++ successor languages for @ladybirdbrowser, and the one best suited to our needs appears to be @SwiftLang ?

Over the last few months, I've asked a bunch of folks to pick some little part of our project and try rewriting it in the different…
— Andreas Kling (@awesomekling) August 10, 2024

2024-12-31 #
WordPress Playgrounds and Studio

Very helpful for my father-in-law who uses WordPress as a giant personal knowledge base. He can now run it from his computer using Studio which uses this technology. I still use Roots for my own sites.

? As seen from State of the Word, WordPress Playground has made remarkable progress. Hundreds of stability patches now support far more plugins than before. Playground is no longer temporary; you can save and revisit your projects anytime.

Try it today: https://t.co/FlsA2Jtxpb pic.twitter.com/AzrBTM2qFt
— WordPress (@WordPress) December 26, 2024

Studio is quite nice as well.

2024-12-31 #

Knowledge Updates

Ghostty ↗

Native TypeScript support in Node.js

Avoiding flash of inaccurate content

Ladybird considering Swift

WordPress Playgrounds and Studio