More to your question, I recommend something like semanticscholar to find actual relevant papers. Try to identify researchers that seem trustworthy, then explore the citation network around them.

For more hot off the press stuff, follow what gets boosted on social media.

Still doesn’t cover the truly niche stuff but it’s a start

I agreed right up to the conclusion about the need for increased safety regulation. How do we ensure such regulation protects us instead of the interests of a handful of ‘all-powerful’ frontier labs?

Maybe regulation can also mean a new accountability framework. That I would agree with. ‘I didn’t mean to hack into that bank; my autonomous agent did it while price shopping’ sounds ridiculous, yet it’s not far removed from what frontier labs are getting away with in the pursuit of more attention

‘You can use Omarchy without caring about DHH’s politics,’ explained one of my colleagues. And he’s kind of right. Death of the author – that sort of thing. But using it also lends credibility to the maker, who can point at their project’s popularity as an indirect sign of vindication of their ideology. Hence, as I see it, the only morally right choice is not to use it.

Regarding the conclusion, I wouldn’t leave. I see it as my duty to push back, even if the effect is woefully modest. We need to start reminding each other again that, no, this isn’t okay. In the office and online.

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Fwiw, deepseek v4 will happily discuss it. Only chinese providers will stop it in its tracks and give a canned answer. Streamed responses sometimes start with what the model was actually generating before it got cut off.

It’s top bad, really. Sometimes the Chinese providers are the model labs themselves, like deepseek. I’d like my money to go directly to deepseek, since they did all the work. But data protection concerns aside, how do I trust a system that denies objective reality? (Kind of like how Grok will tell me that wikipedia is ‘woke’.)

After using Helix fulltime for two years, I’m considering a switch. Helix is fantastic OOTB and I have considerable muscle memory in it, but the pace of development is glacial. There are I think three active maintainers, and they’re completely swamped by PRs, many of which have sat unreviewed since they were openend. It’s enough to wonder why anyone would even consider contributing. That would be understandable if it weren’t for the fact that, no, Helix isn’t ‘finished’. Newer LSP features aren’t supported; DAP for python has never worked; I also miss code folding, bread crumbs, and tab name disambiguation. The steel scheme plugin branch is functional and several neat plugins are beginning to emerge. However, I switched back to main after noticing that the plugin branch adds about 1s to startup time. (I’m constantly opening and closing helix.)

Anyway, Kakoune has an attractive philosophy. There’s ‘editor for life’ potential. A really minimal core that I can shape to my needs in the moment. The scripting language looks even gnarlier than vimscript but no matter – we have coding agents for that now.

But Kakoune’s minimalism also brings downsides that make me wonder if it’s more effort than it’s worth. For example, that minimalism rules out a dependency on treesitter. But you can hardly expect to shell out for treesitter highlighting and expect good performance. With Helix, nvim, and Zed all consolidating on treesitter, I don’t see why I’d want to spend time on an already solved problem.

All in all, neovim is feeling like a better option, and as another commenter says, configuring it has become remarkably easy thanks to coding agents. And apparently native multiple cursors are on the roadmap.

I rebuild herdr from master every few days to gauge the direction it’s moving in.

What herdr gets right over zellij:

- Default keybinds don’t conflict with helix. Even the leader key mode in zellij keeps alt-bindings around. Herdr keeps things nicely tucked away.

- There’s beta support for the kitty image protocol. Three years on, we’re still waiting in zellij.

- Notifications get passed correctly through to the terminal.

As for herdr’s killer feature, agent status monitoring, there is apparently a zellij plugin.

Big win for zellij: the docs and code feel human. By contrast, herdr’s docs have all the tells of a vibe coded project. Not to say the maintainer hasn’t put care into it! But I’m getting burned out on LLM docs.

The only feature of Ghostty that I now miss in Kitty: setting the text size of each window pane independently. Oh and the slightly smoother quake terminal, even though I don’t use that much.

Ghostty makes some choices that I personally find bizarre. For one, on macOS, cmd+, opens config in textedit instead of in $EDITOR. Another is there isn’t a key action for moving panes; you need to use the mouse. At least half of the config options are platform-specific. And weirdest of all scripting is limited and can only really be done with (get this) AppleScript.

So, like I surmised (and I could be wrong, of course), Ghostty is just a nice terminal that lives alongside your other apps; Kitty is powerful enough to practically act like a second desktop environment (that is also cross-platform).

Of course, this post is about libghostty, the underlying term emulator library. And that is an amazing contribution to the ecosystem! Zmx, herdr, soon neovim, now emacs, hopefully someday Zed – so many things can now embed an amazingly performant terminal

(I know Wezterm has remote session multiplexing in beta, but I’d be surprised if you can re-attach from a different machine.)

Lately I’ve been experimenting with embracing the total scriptability of my favorite terminal, Kitty. Its creator is famously outspoken about non-native multiplexers, precisely because of the pitfalls you mentioned and because they hold back the terminal ecosystem.

Couple of recent issues I’ve had: washed-out colors in Claude Code, desktop notifications not passing through, scrollback weirdness, and image protocol mismatches.

I used to treat Zellij as an OS to build my own IDE in. Now it’s Kitty.

I save layouts as a Kitty session. Important limitation: this doesn’t persist running processes. And so enter zmx. Whenever I need a process I can reattach to I wrap it in zmx.

A terminal agent can interact with the kitty cli to create splits and such. I’m still on the fence as to whether that’s safe. Probably not. Also, tmux is likely better represented in the training data. Currently experimenting with running claude inside tmux (multiplexing) inside nono (sandbox).

My steering wheel has one macro button, which I can bind to EITHER disabling speed alerts or driver monitoring alerts but, very unfortunately, not both. So guess who’s sometimes poking at their touchscreen while they should be focusing on the road?

Not against alerts in principle but it should be a less is more kind of thing

Sentence. Short sentence. Noun. Noun. Noun. Sentence to reflect. Wrap it up in a bow.

Sequences of short incomplete sentences, particularly in threes is such a tell

From the website to the software, this looks stunning.

Tried chip music with nanoloop several years ago. Wasn't 100% for me: 1) pure chip music is too jarring for my ears; 2) it's in the name ('nanoloop'), but it pushes you toward short repeating loops. Once you've heard the same 4-bar loop a couple of hundred times, it's hard to imagine the next phrase. Feels like getting stuck. This has a 128 pattern * 16-step sequencer. If those patterns are easy to chain, then this could be really nice for longer phrases.

Can anyone comment on how much effort goes into flashing a cartridge? I've never done it. Back in the day, I just ordered nanoloop straight from the website.

I'd feel bad calling it 'half-baked' though, seeing as they've published some incredibly in-depth posts about how they develop and test the vim mode. (At the time of writing at least, they had a Neovim core contributor on the team.)

So it does surprise me they haven't made switching between panels more seamless. I've had to add a bunch of extra custom keybinds, and tbh I'm still getting tripped up. Feels like I'm constantly reminding myself to switch between different sets of muscle memory.