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Mutliplexing the planet, cofounder @superlogical. Previously @poolsideai @vercel @hashicorp @heroku. ½ of @softwarereplay

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One of my favourite things about building Superlogical is that we all care, a disproportionate amount, about the little conveniences, performance gains and UI treats that most rational people just don’t. I'm currently working on our scrollback search UI. You basically have two common choices as a designer: a) insert a toolbar into the view or b) float a search bar over the view For terminals, any intrinsic size change causes a reflow - which is jarring for the user to see and potentially pushes offscreen something you were looking at. This means option A sucks. For option B though, the problem is that you’re potentially obscuring matched words that fall under the search UI since it floats over them. (Every app I tried makes this mistake which is kinda nuts) So what's the solution? Give our search UI a gentle nudge out the way when it's over something you're trying to see.

One of my favourite things about building Superlogical is that we all care, a disproportionate amount, about the little conveniences, performance gains and UI treats that most rational people just don’t. I'm currently working on our scrollback search UI. You basically have two common choices as a designer: a) insert a toolbar into the view or b) float a search bar over the view For terminals, any intrinsic size change causes a reflow - which is jarring for the user to see and potentially pushes offscreen something you were looking at. This means option A sucks. For option B though, the problem is that you’re potentially obscuring matched words that fall under the search UI since it floats over them. (Every app I tried makes this mistake which is kinda nuts) So what's the solution? Give our search UI a gentle nudge out the way when it's over something you're trying to see.

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The benefits of switching between horizontal → vertical tabs are underrated. For the Superlogical multiplexer macOS client, both tab styles are great for very different working styles. For me, horizontal tabs are great for more focussed projects or tasks. I'll open a repo, spawn a few tabs with lazygit, a couple agents etc, and live in that for a while. Vertical tabs however, span sessions and even machines - much better for monitoring existing workloads, disparate agent runs and the like. Operator mode. Still quite early wip stuff but already a delight to use.

The benefits of switching between horizontal → vertical tabs are underrated. For the Superlogical multiplexer macOS client, both tab styles are great for very different working styles. For me, horizontal tabs are great for more focussed projects or tasks. I'll open a repo, spawn a few tabs with lazygit, a couple agents etc, and live in that for a while. Vertical tabs however, span sessions and even machines - much better for monitoring existing workloads, disparate agent runs and the like. Operator mode. Still quite early wip stuff but already a delight to use.

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I used a similar technique recently to reverse engineer the beautiful tabs in OpenAI ‘s Atlas browser. Took a screen recording, had an agent describe the design, the tab metrics, the easing curves etc. Had Codex do one pass and have Claude critique it, and got this highly responsive, pretty well structured macOS component out of it

I used a similar technique recently to reverse engineer the beautiful tabs in OpenAI ‘s Atlas browser. Took a screen recording, had an agent describe the design, the tab metrics, the easing curves etc. Had Codex do one pass and have Claude critique it, and got this highly responsive, pretty well structured macOS component out of it

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Today we're launching our first public Poolside models: Laguna M.1 and Laguna XS.2, and we've built ❈Shimmer, an instant-on VM sandbox with Poolside Agent pre-installed so you can try them out. Go play out our new models for free, and build something fun →

Today we're launching our first public Poolside models: Laguna M.1 and Laguna XS.2, and we've built ❈Shimmer, an instant-on VM sandbox with Poolside Agent pre-installed so you can try them out. Go play out our new models for free, and build something fun →

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Late afternoon ship

Late afternoon ship

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Sharing my opinionated setup for coding with agents. zellij + ghostty + codex, claude, pi & ∞ + lazygit Enough insight at a glance as to whats changing, but still surfing tokens. Inbuilt sensible keybindings and sane defaults. One command: ❯ sesh

Sharing my opinionated setup for coding with agents. zellij + ghostty + codex, claude, pi & ∞ + lazygit Enough insight at a glance as to whats changing, but still surfing tokens. Inbuilt sensible keybindings and sane defaults. One command: ❯ sesh

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Most importantly, Shift + Tab is now possible in Echo so you can easily put Claude Code in dangerous mode

Most importantly, Shift + Tab is now possible in Echo so you can easily put Claude Code in dangerous mode

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Geist Mono really shines on the iPhone and at small sizes in a terminal.

Geist Mono really shines on the iPhone and at small sizes in a terminal.

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made something I wanted for a while: a high performance custom tab/splits library in swift for native Mac apps. with support for drag/drop, CoreAnimation accelerated transitions, and more. spent a lot of time on the polish of this thing to feel snappy, but fun.

made something I wanted for a while: a high performance custom tab/splits library in swift for native Mac apps. with support for drag/drop, CoreAnimation accelerated transitions, and more. spent a lot of time on the polish of this thing to feel snappy, but fun.

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there's a lot of i love about this site, but i really enjoyed building this matrix-inspired, ascii art, interactive, poolside-logo-masked, code generating artwork. huge props to Glenn Hitchcock for his design vision here.

there's a lot of i love about this site, but i really enjoyed building this matrix-inspired, ascii art, interactive, poolside-logo-masked, code generating artwork. huge props to Glenn Hitchcock for his design vision here.

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we added a little ✨ to downloading our brand assets – thanks to yasmin Glenn Hitchcock

we added a little ✨ to downloading our brand assets – thanks to yasmin Glenn Hitchcock

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last bit of polish just landed ✨

last bit of polish just landed ✨

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In the last 18 months or so my terminal use has exploded. From being a place where I mostly navigated the file system, ran a server and did some very light nvim use, to my entire workspace, connected to multiple machines, where I spend most of my day. This is the starting point we're using for designing the Superlogical multiplexer, and we're borrowing ideas from another app that blurs the local and remote, long lived sessions and throwaway tabs: the web browser. And the first thing I wanted to borrow: favicons, for your terminal apps. We call it the Deck icon (like a deck of cards), since it needs to represent your own layout of (potentially) multiple running processes.
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In the last 18 months or so my terminal use has exploded. From being a place where I mostly navigated the file system, ran a server and did some very light nvim use, to my entire workspace, connected to multiple machines, where I spend most of my day. This is the starting point we're using for designing the Superlogical multiplexer, and we're borrowing ideas from another app that blurs the local and remote, long lived sessions and throwaway tabs: the web browser. And the first thing I wanted to borrow: favicons, for your terminal apps. We call it the Deck icon (like a deck of cards), since it needs to represent your own layout of (potentially) multiple running processes.

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It's Friday, lets talk about themes. For Superlogical we've created a suite of 41 original themes for both light and dark modes that are portable across all our clients. Themes tint not just the ANSI terminal colors, but the entire application chrome.
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It's Friday, lets talk about themes. For Superlogical we've created a suite of 41 original themes for both light and dark modes that are portable across all our clients. Themes tint not just the ANSI terminal colors, but the entire application chrome.

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160,151 views • 20 days ago

ok hear me out - TikTok but for accepting PR suggestions from background agents running over your codebases… Doom scroll your codebase better?
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ok hear me out - TikTok but for accepting PR suggestions from background agents running over your codebases… Doom scroll your codebase better?

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353,729 views • 6 months ago

This was a fun one to implement because I've also (afai consciously know) never seen "gradient" selections like this. The ::selection pseudo element doesn't support anything other than flat color so, on selection we sample the height the selected element is sitting at against the matching current state of the noise gradient on the right. We then relight that color down in lightness with oklab for better contrast in light/dark modes. This gets recalculated on scroll.y for a nice effect as you scroll the page up/down that makes the whole thing feel like its living the mood shift. Here's a video of this all playing out in the debug tooling we made:
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This was a fun one to implement because I've also (afai consciously know) never seen "gradient" selections like this. The ::selection pseudo element doesn't support anything other than flat color so, on selection we sample the height the selected element is sitting at against the matching current state of the noise gradient on the right. We then relight that color down in lightness with oklab for better contrast in light/dark modes. This gets recalculated on scroll.y for a nice effect as you scroll the page up/down that makes the whole thing feel like its living the mood shift. Here's a video of this all playing out in the debug tooling we made:

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42,695 views • 1 month ago

Here's a little video about how we're thinking about session and tab management in the Superlogical multiplexer and some of the GUI we're experimenting with to make it a productive and intuitive space for your work. We're designing the client from the beginning to handle the modern terminal sprawl: local and remote sessions, long lived processes, agent harnesses, rich TUI apps, ephemeral processes, and everything in between.
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Here's a little video about how we're thinking about session and tab management in the Superlogical multiplexer and some of the GUI we're experimenting with to make it a productive and intuitive space for your work. We're designing the client from the beginning to handle the modern terminal sprawl: local and remote sessions, long lived processes, agent harnesses, rich TUI apps, ephemeral processes, and everything in between.

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Saturday hacktime: made a renderer for Codex pets in your terminal using kitty image protocol. I'm sure people will find an appropriate use for this technology.
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Saturday hacktime: made a renderer for Codex pets in your terminal using kitty image protocol. I'm sure people will find an appropriate use for this technology.

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22,402 views • 4 months ago

I open sourced my custom tab bar and window splits library for Swift. Say hi to Bonsplit. CoreAnimation-driven animations, pretty flexible/configurable, feels right at home on the Mac and showcased in a demo app. Read the docs/see examples/get the code
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I open sourced my custom tab bar and window splits library for Swift. Say hi to Bonsplit. CoreAnimation-driven animations, pretty flexible/configurable, feels right at home on the Mac and showcased in a demo app. Read the docs/see examples/get the code

almonk

28,474 views • 7 months ago

vibed a fun macos app tonight to manage the age of problem of "what process is running on this port". features... ✨ Range based search (ports 3000–8000) ✨ Icons for processes where possible ✨ Kill multiple processes at once
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vibed a fun macos app tonight to manage the age of problem of "what process is running on this port". features... ✨ Range based search (ports 3000–8000) ✨ Icons for processes where possible ✨ Kill multiple processes at once

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32,238 views • 1 year ago

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