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New tabs are added to the right of the current tab, instead of splitting it in half. Open as many as you like, just swipe or use cmd-[] to move between them. scottyterm.com

Scotty will be your command line's best friend.

They just don't make em like this anymore: 'Do you not see how UTTERLY STUPID those kinds of rules would be? So no. We're not going to make stupid rules that say "you can't use tools for X".'

If you're a macOS user who makes heavy use of the terminal, and you want to beta test, DM me. I will only let a handful of users in initially, because I'm not ready to support more than this, right now. scottyterm.com

In the United States, Russian dissident activist Leonid Melekhin ended up in immigration detention, but he was confident he would be granted asylum. Instead, he was deported back to Russia. Now he has six years in a penal colony.

statusbar 0.6.0 is out! statusbar.vrypan.net

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The next statusbar version will be so good. https://blog.vrypan.net/2026/10/04/note-01298/

Small pleasures: A new season of Slow Horses is here.

statusbar is a great tool to keep track of background jobs (and their progress, if they provide updates or a progress bar).

How I use statusbar: A light config for every terminal, and an extended one where I want more. https://blog.vrypan.net/2026/09/24/note-25402/

This is interesting. Say you have a budget of $1300 and an iPhone 15. Do you spend it on an iPhone 18 Pro or Meta VR glasses? This may turn out to be what Apple Vision Pro should have been. https://blog.vrypan.net/2026/09/24/note-28151/

I like how this help page turned out.

Building the user interface for a CLIs/TUI (but especially CLI) is one of my favorite challenges, because there are so many limitations. There is just a narrow path, and you have to find smart solutions using very little, unlike a a GUI/web-UI where almost anything is possible.

statusbar v0.2.0 demo Themes, multi-line bar, starship integration.

statusbar v0.2.0 supports multi-line setups. statusbar.vrypan.net

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I built this, and I really love it. Check it out.

Good to see Signal decouple from phone numbers. Is a one time fee of $3 enough to prevent spammers from registering Signal accounts? 👀

I don't believe anything coming out of frontier model CEOs mouths. Their stakes are extremely high, and they have incentives measured in $ trillions to lie, blow out of proportion, or hide information. We are in the middle of a misinformation war. Assume everyone is lying.

The future of Linux distros is an agent skill that asks you how you want your distro and builds a NixOS configuration tailored to your needs and preferences.

My beloved @robby.vrypan.net has an issue for nearly one month, and would not post new updates, but it's fixed now.

I built a pretty good Zig Unicode library with AI. Here are some thoughts. blog.vrypan.net/2026/09/13/2...

It's 2026 and we still rely on DNS. neil.fraser.name/news/2026/09...

VC isn't VC any more. www.anildash.com/2026/09/02/c...

Something I've been working on. TJ goes beyond shell history, it keeps a full terminal journal. - cli-native - will work on any modern terminal - light and fast, does not get in your way. github.com/vrypan/tj Let me know what you think.

Thank god, the Chinese models are working.

A good programer will produce orders of magnitude better code with AI.

I'm with Anthropic.

I don't like slop. I don't care how it was made, even if you created it with your own hands.

I love this. > Claudette is our solution to Claude being a great engineer with one incurable condition: it talks like it's delivering a TED talk about its own pull request. github.com/adnanakil/no...

⚠️ A few hours ago, a malicious crate was discovered on crates.​io which spread as a dependency of `arrayref` and some other crates, likely due to compromised credentials. The affected versions have been deleted. For details and how to see if you are impacted, see: blog.rust-lang.org/2026/08/20/s...

Actually, this may be an encoding visually impaired users may prefer. Anyone with knowledge of this community? I'd be more than happy to integrate their feedback to the spec and turn a fun experiment into something useful.

This is a fun experiment that started as a way to generate deterministic "usernames" for Nostr npub keys (see the last section).

When an AI company's security tool "escapes containment" and hacks someone else's servers, we need to ask the company "Why do you suck so bad at building secure sandboxes for your hacking tools?" rather than "Why are your hacking tools so amazingly powerful?" 24/

Sometimes I spend days investigating an idea with the help of AI. Sometimes I don't get there, but I think, why let all this effort, time, and tokens go to waste, when someone else may use the result to do something else?

Links and notes for my talk at #AtmosphereConf about did:plc, how it could break, how we might be able to recover if it did and so forth edochan.com/talks/did/ 5pm today (Sunday), room 2301 Will also mention did:cow if I have time cow.watch

Watermarking my work with a tool's stamp??? Fuck you, EU legislator. Why don't you watermark all your documents with "Intel" and "Microsoft"? I need to know if EU laws are created by hard working humans, etching on clay one letter next to the other, or computers.

Where do you buy your DRM free epub books? Bonus points for Europe

You mean it's smart to bet against Elon???? 🤣

Me, trying to explain that crypto-rails have already solved a problem to the atproto crowd.

We should be fighting for the right to distill LLM models. blog.vrypan.net/2026/07/03/2...

How is this (officially stated) information asymmetry legal? How is the DA and the FCC not taking action against a company who does not disclose vital information regarding planned stock events? US has silently legalized inside trading. protos.com/confusion-su...