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Show HN: PrettyMux, a Linux terminal for multitask workflows based on Ghostty

patrickaljord — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 19:45:21 +0000

I built PrettyMux as a native Linux terminal workspace for multitask workflows and keeping track of my agents.

It’s a GTK4 app built on Ghostty/libghostty, with split panes, workspaces, vertical tabs, notifications, project-aware tabs (shows favicons/logo automatically), and an in-app browser so terminals and docs/tools can live side by side.

I started it because I wanted something tmux-like for modern GUI workflows on Linux, but native and not Electron, there is cmux but only available on macos (prettymux compiles on windows and macos too but not tested for now there)

It’s open source: https://github.com/patcito/prettymux

Would love feedback from people who use tmux, Ghostty, or struggle with lots of terminals/browser tabs/parallel tasks.

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New comment by patrickaljord in "Why I Joined OpenAI"

patrickaljord — Sat, 07 Feb 2026 02:17:44 +0000

Unless OpenAI goes with a very liberal definition of AGI, he's going to wait decades for AGI.

New comment by patrickaljord in "I'm a laptop weirdo and that's why I like my new Framework 13"

patrickaljord — Fri, 26 Dec 2025 13:53:23 +0000

Omarchy and DHH are great, nice to see framework supporting them. hyprland is amazing too.

New comment by patrickaljord in "AI agents find $4.6M in blockchain smart contract exploits"

patrickaljord — Tue, 02 Dec 2025 01:07:58 +0000

Once a contract is deployed on the blockchain, its source code is immutable. So before using a contract, check if it gives permission to its deployer (or any address) to change any state at will.

Note that some contracts act as proxy to other contract and can be made to point to another code through a state change, if this is the case then you need to trust whoever can change the state to point to another contract. Such contract sometime have a timelock so that if such a change occurs, there's a delay before it is actually activated, which gives time to users to withdraw their funds if they do not trust the update.

If you are talking about Oracle contracts, if it's an oracle involving offchain data, then there will always be some trust involved, which is usually managed by having the offchain actors share the responsibility and staking some money with the risk to get slashed if they turn into bad actors. But again, offchain data oracles will always require some level of trust that would have to deal with in non-blockchain apps too.

New comment by patrickaljord in "Gemma 3 270M: Compact model for hyper-efficient AI"

patrickaljord — Thu, 14 Aug 2025 19:09:34 +0000

Would it be possible to have a specialized rust only dev or Reactjs only dev while getting rid of all other languages to minimize size of model?

New comment by patrickaljord in "Show HN: Open source alternative to Perplexity Comet"

patrickaljord — Thu, 10 Jul 2025 18:45:46 +0000

my guess is it's just an electron app or chromium wrapper with an ollama wrapper to talk to it (there are plenty of free open source libs to control browsers).

New comment by patrickaljord in "Chat is a bad UI pattern for development tools"

patrickaljord — Tue, 04 Feb 2025 17:36:39 +0000

Instead of Cursor I would recommend two open source alternatives that you can combine: https://www.continue.dev/ and https://github.com/cline/cline

New comment by patrickaljord in "El Salvador abandons Bitcoin as legal tender"

patrickaljord — Tue, 04 Feb 2025 03:49:50 +0000

> I dislike cryptocurrencies as much as the next guy

Is this really the general sentiment on HN?

New comment by patrickaljord in "Huly – Open-source project management platform"

patrickaljord — Mon, 14 Oct 2024 18:45:09 +0000

why not?

New comment by patrickaljord in "Show HN: OpenFreeMap – Open-Source Map Hosting"

patrickaljord — Tue, 24 Sep 2024 19:03:07 +0000

it says you can host it yourself and that he may offer a paid hosted plan in the future

New comment by patrickaljord in "Show HN: InstantDB – A Modern Firebase"

patrickaljord — Fri, 23 Aug 2024 14:06:54 +0000

is the server side open source too?

New comment by patrickaljord in "Open source AI is the path forward"

patrickaljord — Tue, 23 Jul 2024 16:09:52 +0000

Is there an LLM with actual open source training code and dataset? Besides BLOOM https://huggingface.co/bigscience/bloom

New comment by patrickaljord in "Show HN: Open-sourced Webflow for your own app"

patrickaljord — Mon, 08 Jul 2024 14:12:42 +0000

Looks great. Any plan to make it work in a browser instead of having to install an Electron app?

New comment by patrickaljord in "Julian Assange has reached a plea deal with the U.S., allowing him to go free"

patrickaljord — Tue, 25 Jun 2024 11:24:28 +0000

if I were him I would take the first flight to Moscow, can't trust the Australian government, they're a US vassal state, sabotaging their own economy and relationship with China to please the US. Safer to go an enemy state of the US in this case. There's a reason Snowden's still alive while all those Boeing and other whistleblowers are either dead or jailed.

New comment by patrickaljord in "PeaZip: Open-source file compression and encryption software"

patrickaljord — Sat, 11 May 2024 23:37:57 +0000

> Off topic, but this is why many devs choose not to support Linux. Every distro is its own special snowflake

most DE use the same standards (dbus etc) so no

New comment by patrickaljord in "Google surpasses $2T market cap"

patrickaljord — Sun, 28 Apr 2024 22:41:04 +0000

They still have one of the best AI tech now and for the foreseeable future (despite their woke filters) and a decent cloud platform. And of course as you say they have Ads but also Android. I do feel like they could do 100x better but I think they're still relevant innovation wise (and financially obviously).

New comment by patrickaljord in "Zoho is attracting the attention of African startup founders"

patrickaljord — Wed, 24 Apr 2024 11:25:33 +0000

The recent decline of Japan caused by American restrictions and vassalization is well documented, same for Germany.

New comment by patrickaljord in "It’s Official, Apple Kills Web Apps in the EU"

patrickaljord — Sat, 17 Feb 2024 14:11:24 +0000

This is true, but it's naive to believe that the App Store wasn't planned long before those 18 months and was written in just a couple of month before its release.

New comment by patrickaljord in "jQuery v4.0 Beta"

patrickaljord — Wed, 07 Feb 2024 06:35:15 +0000

jQuery is amazing, still remember the joy of using it 20 years ago. That being said, React, Vue and similar are just better IMO to build and maintain complex apps. Don't get me wrong, jQuery was the best thing at its time and I will always be grateful to its contributors, but today there are better alternatives. I think htmx is nice but not seeing it taking over other frameworks.

New comment by patrickaljord in "Netflix: Piracy is difficult to compete against and growing rapidly"

patrickaljord — Sun, 04 Feb 2024 23:17:04 +0000

I was paying for Netflix 10 years ago in France for a short while, wanted some English subtitles for my wife for some US shows but there were only subtitles in French so had to download the same show elsewhere if you know what I'm saying... with English subtitles readily available. I also remember watching some shows like the first two seasons but then only to find out the third season was licensed by another streaming service lol. Such a UX disaster for paying customers.