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• I built a native macOS terminal so I'd stop losing track of my AI agents

  So I built a terminal. It's called viterm: a native macOS app in Swift + AppKit, with rendering handled by libghostty. MIT licensed. - Source: dev.to / 11 days ago

• Workbench: A TUI for parallel coding agents

  I made a nice way to use all your coding harnesses and persist them entirely in the TUI. I love Cursor and Claude Code, but I like using many of them and often use them in combination with tmux locally and via SSH, so I made this for myself really. Hoping other people find it useful or cool. It's mostly for use inside of Ghostty (https://ghostty.org/) so image rendering and everything works nicely. Would love some... - Source: Hacker News / 23 days ago

• How My Coworker Who Didn't Know 'cd' Shipped to Production

  The downside of teaching a designer to use the terminal is that she will want hers to look like yours. Tanya saw my Ghostty theme and my catppuccin Starship theme over a screen share and decided she wanted both. Her Claude Code statusline came next. That's an entire other post. - Source: dev.to / 3 months ago

• The Terminal Renaissance: Designing Beautiful TUIs in the Age of AI

  I built ghostty-automator, a purpose-built IPC layer for Ghostty that exposes the terminal's actual state to external processes. - Source: dev.to / 3 months ago

• I gave my AI coding assistant a body — and now it lives in my terminal

  It works on any terminal that supports the Kitty graphics protocol — Ghostty and Kitty are the two main ones. - Source: dev.to / 4 months ago

• I Built a macOS Terminal That Detects Your AI Coding Agents — Here's Why

  In late 2024, Ghostty launched and open-sourced libghostty — a production-grade terminal rendering engine built on Metal. Suddenly, I didn't need to write a GPU renderer from scratch. The hardest part of building a terminal was solved. - Source: dev.to / 4 months ago

• How I Use 4 Terminal Setups with Claude Code Agent Teams

  Ghostty (v1.3.1) is a GPU-accelerated cross-platform terminal emulator. On macOS it uses Metal, and startup feels under 0.1 seconds. - Source: dev.to / 4 months ago

• 🚀 VS Code Pre-March 2026 Release (v1.110) Including Practical Agents — What's New? A Beginner's Guide

  If you use the Ghostty terminal app on macOS or Linux, you can now set it as your default external terminal inside VS Code. - Source: dev.to / 5 months ago

• The Pursuit of Pixel-Perfect Observability: Lessons from Terminal Emulators

  Recently, the buzz around Ghostty, a new terminal emulator, caught our attention. While a terminal emulator might seem far removed from web application monitoring, its core challenges — precise rendering, low-latency interaction, and robust error handling — resonate profoundly with the architectural decisions we make at Sovereign. - Source: dev.to / 5 months ago

• Perfect Claude Code Notifications Setup with Tailscale and ntfy

  Claude Code comes with a notification hook. Some terminals support it natively (iTerm2, Kitty, Ghostty) but most don’t, and even when they do, it’s a system notification which is easy to miss if you step away. - Source: dev.to / 5 months ago

• Show HN: Ghostty Ambient – Terminal theme switcher that learns your preferences

  Built for Ghostty (https://ghostty.org) but the Bayesian preference learning could apply to any theming system.. - Source: Hacker News / 6 months ago

• Set Up Your Mac Development Environment in Minutes with Hola

  Inspired by modern tools like Ghostty and Bun, I built Hola in Zig for its speed, cross-compilation capabilities, and seamless C integration. The result? A tool that sets up your entire development environment in minutes, not hours. - Source: dev.to / 8 months ago

• Cool-retro-term: terminal emulator which mimics look and feel of the old CRTs

  Cool project, love the visuals. Wish it would merge as a plugin or something to a project like http://ghostty.org/ while I appreciate the visual fun, there are other pragmatic tools beyond visuals that are handy. - Source: Hacker News / 8 months ago

• Ghostty + Zellij 👻 setup on Mac

  So I have been using Ghostty with Zellij on macOS for a while, as my favourite goto terminal and workspace. - Source: dev.to / 8 months ago

• Ask HN: Who uses open LLMs and coding assistants locally? Share setup and laptop

  - - [Ghostty](https://ghostty.org/) + [Starship](https://starship.rs/) for having a super sleek [terminal experience](https://www.bitdoze.com/starship-ghostty-terminal/). - Source: Hacker News / 9 months ago

• Warp Terminal changes pricing model

  To be fair, for those of us who live in a terminal, the terminal is/was not solved. Old terminals are slow and have a bunch of weird Unicode issues. Now, Warp is a terrible product, and I have nothing nice to say about them. But look at modern terminals like Kitty or Ghostty. There are so many very nice improvements. Like mouse support that works well (as opposed to "kind of works, but who needs a mouse?!, won't... - Source: Hacker News / 9 months ago

• How to Obsessively Tune WezTerm

  Gotta give a shoutout regarding Ghostty [1]. I keep switching terminal apps; I'm on an iTerm2 kick right now… but I used Ghostty for a while and it's pretty damn cool. Anecdotally, it feels the fastest to me. Also GPU-accelerated and super configurable. It's amazing how a guy (Mitchell Hashimoto)[2] leaves the company he co-founded before it was sold to IBM. [1]: https://ghostty.org [2]:... - Source: Hacker News / 9 months ago

• Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (September 2025)

  I'm working on a notes app that is as simple as Apple notes, but has native markdown support and uses semantic search. Uses SwiftUI for the UI, and Zig does most of the heavy lifting on the backend. It's inspired by ghostty which uses a similar setup[1]. Right now it only works for Mac, but I'll be porting to iOS as soon as I get the markdown renderer polished. It's not available to the public yet, but I'm using... - Source: Hacker News / 10 months ago

• Using iTerm2's new AI Chat features with Azure OpenAI

  For the longest time I've used iTerm2 as a replacement for Terminal. It's fast, it's native, it's not yet another lipstick-on-an-Electron-wrapper type of thing. Only Ghostty comes close to it, and even though it's faster and resizes better, it misses some of the features I've grown to depend on. - Source: dev.to / 10 months ago

• 👻 Ghostty's Option+Backspace Not Working? Fixed!

  In Ghostty, you can configure key combinations to send arbitrary control characters. By using this feature, you can reproduce the familiar macOS behavior of deleting entire words with Option+Backspace in the terminal. - Source: dev.to / 10 months ago

• Down the Rabbit Hole with Claude Code: My Journey to Window Key Switcher

  So I went looking for a new terminal emulator. I'd been using xfce-terminal since my XFCE days and was still using it after switching back to GNOME. That's when I stumbled upon Ghostty. It provides native window multiplexing with keyboard shortcuts to "split left" or "split down", and it's great. - Source: dev.to / 12 months ago