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Digital Nomad. Hyperborean Python expert, PSF fellow, author, humanist, husband, sometimes wildlife photographer. He/him @[email protected]

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This may be the coolest thing I have ever built, or ever will build.

This may be the coolest thing I have ever built, or ever will build.

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This bugs me more than it should. This is Ghostty, but it happens to other software. Characters on the corners are cropped by the border radius of the window. I like macOS in general, but wish Apple would roll back the rounded corners a tad.

This bugs me more than it should. This is Ghostty, but it happens to other software. Characters on the corners are cropped by the border radius of the window. I like macOS in general, but wish Apple would roll back the rounded corners a tad.

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This should not be possible with the terminal! 🤯

This should not be possible with the terminal! 🤯

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Checking out Gemini CLI new Antigravity CLI. I swear watching big tech build these things over and over again is like being the only sober person in a car, and nobody will allow you to drive.
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Checking out Gemini CLI new Antigravity CLI. I swear watching big tech build these things over and over again is like being the only sober person in a car, and nobody will allow you to drive.

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35,214 views • 17 days ago

I applaud Claude for going full TUI. They have even attempted wrapping tables! The word-wrapping is broken though. It looks like they are wrapping white-space on to the next line.
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I applaud Claude for going full TUI. They have even attempted wrapping tables! The word-wrapping is broken though. It looks like they are wrapping white-space on to the next line.

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105,465 views • 2 months ago

Alrighty. The Toad is out of the bag. 👜🐸 Install toad to work with a variety of #AI coding agents with one beautiful terminal interface. Check out the blog post for more information... I've been told I'm very authentic on camera. You just can't fake that kind of awkwardness.
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Alrighty. The Toad is out of the bag. 👜🐸 Install toad to work with a variety of #AI coding agents with one beautiful terminal interface. Check out the blog post for more information... I've been told I'm very authentic on camera. You just can't fake that kind of awkwardness.

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201,158 views • 5 months ago

Cute! But does it have sub-cell mouse drag and easing animation?
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Cute! But does it have sub-cell mouse drag and easing animation?

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54,297 views • 6 months ago

This is what I am working on. 🐸 Toad. A universal interface for agentic coding in the terminal. Follow me for updates.
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This is what I am working on. 🐸 Toad. A universal interface for agentic coding in the terminal. Follow me for updates.

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55,924 views • 10 months ago

It's not much, but it is honest work. A purely decorative Textual widgets, I have plans for. Partially vide coded!
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It's not much, but it is honest work. A purely decorative Textual widgets, I have plans for. Partially vide coded!

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41,075 views • 7 months ago

Almost ready for the first public release of Toad! The video shows Getting started with Agentic coding in Toad. Pick your agent. Install. And you are off to the races. All without ever leaving Toad or your terminal! OpenHands 🐸 ❤️ 👐
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Almost ready for the first public release of Toad! The video shows Getting started with Agentic coding in Toad. Pick your agent. Install. And you are off to the races. All without ever leaving Toad or your terminal! OpenHands 🐸 ❤️ 👐

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32,095 views • 6 months ago

I do believe I've nailed the table scaling. 💪 I was stuck on this last night. Just couldn't get it. Got it working this morning before I had finished my coffee. ☕️Proving once again the best debugging technique is a good night's sleep Turns out it is a two-step problem. First step is to subtract space from the columns, but maintain a minimum column width that fits at least the largest word. If the table is still larger than the desired width, then the excess space is subtracted from columns proportionally to the column width. So wide columns shrink first. This keeps the table legible for as long as possible. If cells are crushed, then tooltips will help. It is also entirely possible to make the table scroll horizontally. But nobody likes horizontal scrollbars...
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I do believe I've nailed the table scaling. 💪 I was stuck on this last night. Just couldn't get it. Got it working this morning before I had finished my coffee. ☕️Proving once again the best debugging technique is a good night's sleep Turns out it is a two-step problem. First step is to subtract space from the columns, but maintain a minimum column width that fits at least the largest word. If the table is still larger than the desired width, then the excess space is subtracted from columns proportionally to the column width. So wide columns shrink first. This keeps the table legible for as long as possible. If cells are crushed, then tooltips will help. It is also entirely possible to make the table scroll horizontally. But nobody likes horizontal scrollbars...

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49,683 views • 10 months ago

Now I have a "split" diff view. Not bad for an hour and a half's work. WDYT?
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Now I have a "split" diff view. Not bad for an hour and a half's work. WDYT?

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40,177 views • 8 months ago

Here's why I think Zed 's Agent Client Protocol is an important technology. It allows lunatics like me to take the magic of Gemini CLI and other agents, and build a custom terminal UI around them. Here I am comparing Toad's TTY support with Gemini's. Toad is very close to a release BTW. Join the toad channel on Textualize discord to be the first to try it out.
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Here's why I think Zed 's Agent Client Protocol is an important technology. It allows lunatics like me to take the magic of Gemini CLI and other agents, and build a custom terminal UI around them. Here I am comparing Toad's TTY support with Gemini's. Toad is very close to a release BTW. Join the toad channel on Textualize discord to be the first to try it out.

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29,180 views • 6 months ago

Are we doing this? I guess we're doing this.
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Are we doing this? I guess we're doing this.

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24,920 views • 10 months ago

Retweet if you want an inline terminal code editor.
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Retweet if you want an inline terminal code editor.

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46,774 views • 2 years ago

I thought this was neat. As well as the Markdown document streaming, the table of contents also streams in. I know not everyone is as easily entertained as I am. 🤷‍♂️
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I thought this was neat. As well as the Markdown document streaming, the table of contents also streams in. I know not everyone is as easily entertained as I am. 🤷‍♂️

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17,607 views • 10 months ago

Textual is pretty fast these days. Who would have thunk that you could implement a CSS layout and rendering engine in #Python and have it perform this fast, in a *terminal* ? It's fast enough, but there are still wins remaining. And we haven't done any C or Rust extensions.
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Textual is pretty fast these days. Who would have thunk that you could implement a CSS layout and rendering engine in #Python and have it perform this fast, in a *terminal* ? It's fast enough, but there are still wins remaining. And we haven't done any C or Rust extensions.

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24,704 views • 3 years ago

I've rewritten (Offsets, Regions, etc.) in Rust. Tests pass and everything seems to work. Now I need a benchmark to compare rendering speed. It certainly looks fast. But then it did before. 🤷‍♂️
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I've rewritten (Offsets, Regions, etc.) in Rust. Tests pass and everything seems to work. Now I need a benchmark to compare rendering speed. It certainly looks fast. But then it did before. 🤷‍♂️

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11,282 views • 1 year ago

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