gnachman

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by gnachman 2mo ago
Not using Xcode is the greatest improvement in quality of life I have known aside from recovering from a debilitating back injury. So good.
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by gnachman 5mo ago
So you’re saying there’s a chance that Oracle will die? Sign me up.
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by gnachman 5mo ago
iTerm2 author here. This could be used as a link in an exploit chain but by itself the claim in the title is massively overblown. I’m on a family vacation but I’ll release a fix when I get back.
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by gnachman 7mo ago
Here’s mine https://apps.apple.com/us/app/snortfolio/id6755617457 30kloc client and server combined. I built this as an experiment in building an app without reading any of the code. Even ops is done by claud
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by gnachman 2y ago
I moved across the country to work for Palm on a secret project which was revealed to be the Foleo only after I started. I spent a year trying to make the web browser with a totally broken engine they had licensed from Access. Having blown
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by gnachman 2y ago
That wouldn't very well because Date.now() isn't monotonic.
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by gnachman 2y ago
Hi! I’m the author. I wrote my thoughts on the AI furor here (in two unlinked parts because I’m apparently bad at computers): https://techhub.social/@gnachman/112481098349565431 https://techhub.social/@
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by gnachman 3y ago
I worked on this as an intern in 1997 and led it for a while. AMA
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by gnachman 3y ago
iTerm2 has code to detect when the current host changes and then disables paste bracketing. An ssh session suddenly ending is a common cause of it being left on with annoying consequences. After sending a bracketed paste, iTerm2 watches for
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by gnachman 4y ago
All but one of my monitors are or were sold by Apple. So they were tested and are usb c and need no dongles. The other is a low dpi monitor with no special features besides hdr. The three apple approved monitors generally work well, requiri
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by gnachman 4y ago
I have five monitors. When it works, it's great. The other 5% of the time it's a giant pain in the butt. I don't know why this part of macOS is so incredibly buggy. It often forgets the arrangement, the HDR setting, and the r
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by gnachman 4y ago
If you got an offer from Facebook they would beat it. I did this in 2012 and instantly had 10x the RSUs. Some Googlers thought it was immoral to do this. It was at this time that comp for engineers radically changed.
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by gnachman 5y ago
WhatsApp’s encrypted backups use OPAQUE. Source: https://scontent.whatsapp.net/v/t39.8562-34/241394876_546674...
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by gnachman 5y ago
There is still a ton of diversity (underline color, curly underlines, synchronization, and image support for example), but it's nearly impossible to figure out what features are available in a given terminal. I just finished adding vt4
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by gnachman 5y ago
If anyone from Github is here, can you please allow attachments of unrecognized file types? You won't let users attach their binary .plist prefs files and this makes Github issues unusable for my project.
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First iTerm2 Commit for Sale as NFT(opensea.io)
15 points by gnachman 5y ago|11 comments
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by gnachman 6y ago
I released iTerm2 version 3.4.0 this morning with Big Sur support. Please update because 3.3 has various issues with it.
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by gnachman 6y ago
Yes! I compose an email to a big group of people I respect. That forces me to be extra careful.
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by gnachman 6y ago
I was recently involved in an unwanted meaning issue where my app icon looked like "SB", which I learned is offensive to some Chinese speakers. Too bad it doesn't come up in wordsafety.com. Not that I'd have thought to l
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by gnachman 6y ago
It's amusing that they have a link to buy a square cm for $80 just above the graph showing that it will cost €0,1 in 2020.
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by gnachman 6y ago
I sure wish it were wrong. If macOS’s text rendering primitives could be used asynchronously or concurrently the situation would be significantly better. I’ve spent probably hundreds of hours trying to make it fast but I’m convinced it’s on
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by gnachman 6y ago
There is an incomplete test suite for terminal emulators. It was my paternity leave project many years ago. Contributions are welcome. https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/terminal-wg/esctest
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by gnachman 6y ago
I just discovered this yesterday when a user filed a bug against iTerm2. It caused a problem for reflow because it looks like one long line. Took a minute to makes sense of what was going on, and then I thought it was a neat trick but it wo
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by gnachman 6y ago
Since Gitlab is listening: users sometimes attach files to issues on my project and then regret it. There doesn’t seem to be any way to permanently delete such an upload. Sometimes these files have passwords or their employers’ secrets. I a
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by gnachman 6y ago
My parents are in their 80s so your statement was very surprising. At 80 the expected death risk is under .6% per year, so you’re off by about two orders of magnitude. https://www.ssa.gov/oact/STATS/table4c6.html
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by gnachman 6y ago
Nope, never changed it.
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by gnachman 6y ago
Since 1999, a lot of undefined behavior has been added to the language to improve compilers’ ability to optimize. For example, pointer aliasing rules. How have you measured the benefit?
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by gnachman 6y ago
What’s the right way to sign a script? I’ve spent some time researching this and never found a satisfactory answer.
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by gnachman 6y ago
Anything added after iOS 6 is the cheeky answer, but it’s not totally wrong either. Auto layout is incredibly hard to debug; it’s great when it works right, though, fwiw. The audio APIs are a garbage fire (equally on both platforms, at leas
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by gnachman 6y ago
I write both: iOS during the day and macOS at night. iOS is significantly less buggy and has less legacy baggage than macOS. iOS has some features that macOS doesn't, so there is more to learn. I spend a lot less time working around

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