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Ghostty on macOS

Ghostty

I got private beta access (quite late), and Ghostty is probably going to be out in its first public release any day now (update: it was released on 2024-12-26). Here are my initial impressions, having used it for a couple of weeks on macOS.

Amendments 2025-01-02

This post has been amended with the following details since it was originally posted:

  • Updated path to Ghostty.app's vim files.
  • Release tracks; stable vs tip.
  • Example config for tabs integration into title bar.
  • Example command to list themes.
  • Example command for setting light vs dark theme which will follow system.
  • Link to tmux control mode issue.
  • Workaround to Aerospace tabs bug.
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Native per-project tools in Go 1.24

There are some exciting news in the Go community as of recently on how to manage tools in Go projects. With the next release of Go (Go 1.24, expected to be released in February 2025), it seems we'll finally have a way to natively define per-project tools! 🎉

This hopefully means no more Makefile and/or tools.go for managing project tooling. And it looks like e.g. Dependabot will support this out of the box too.

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Session management in Wezterm (without tmux)

Wezterm workspaces

I've been using Neovim as my daily IDE/editor for a bit more than a year now. I've also been using tmux to manage sessions, first using t-smart-tmux-session-manager and later sesh, which supersedes the former project. What's great about this is that it doesn't matter which terminal emulator you use, you can still fall back to this kind of session management.

But the draw screen latency (and complexity) of tmux is annoying and I finally took some time to evaluate the session management capabilities of Wezterm (my currently favorite terminal emulator, which you configure with Lua!) called "workspaces", to see if this could replace tmux altogether for me.

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GitHub Pages and Google

Turns out that if you publish a blog (like I do) on GitHub pages, and you want the site to be indexed by Google, it's not so easy.

I'm not sure entirely what the root cause is, but you have to manually add your site in the Google Search Console and then manually add each URL individually for indexing. This discussion outlines the problem perfectly.

Perhaps the reason for this is there are a LOT of pages under the github.io domain, so Google doesn't automatically index it all, or times out. Or perhaps it's because GitHub has some restriction in place which avoids attracting too much traffic to their free hosting solution. 🤷

Here's a more detailed discussion thread which expands more on this topic.