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Gregory Anders
Personal blog · gpanders.com/blog · on HN as gpandersprogrammingsystems
Gregory Anders writes g.p. anders, a personal blog at gpanders.com about programming and systems. Since 2020, 17 different Hacker News readers have linked it 23 times, most often “Ghostty Is Native – So What?”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-03-26, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (6) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog for posts on native terminal and editor software, especially the Ghostty native-app post, plus write-ups on Neovim 0.10 features and terminal keyboard protocols.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 6 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Personal website for Gregory Anders
Most-linked posts?
- Ghostty Is Native – So What?7 people · 7 mentions · first linked 2024-12-21
- State of the Terminal6 people · 6 mentions · first linked 2024-03-12
- What's New in Neovim 0.112 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-03-26
What Hacker News says?
Performance of course but native is a big part of ghostty’s appeal; there’s an article by a neovim dev that expands on that native part a bit - https://gpanders.com/blog/ghostty-is-native-so-what/
Comment linking /blog/ghostty-is-native-so-what/
on “Ghostty 1.0”Submitted What's New in Neovim 0.10 as a story · 291 points
HN discussionThis gets brought up a lot, so I wrote about it here https://gpanders.com/blog/ghostty-is-native-so-what/
Comment linking /blog/ghostty-is-native-so-what/
on “Ghostty 1.0”Submitted State of the Terminal as a story · 104 points
HN discussionThis is a neat blog post explaining part of the magic: https://gpanders.com/blog/ghostty-is-native-so-what/
Comment linking /blog/ghostty-is-native-so-what/
on “Ghostty 1.0”Submitted Creating Your Own Git Server as a story · 70 points
HN discussionI did a brief write up on some of the biggest new features here: https://gpanders.com/blog/whats-new-in-neovim-0-7/
Comment linking /blog/whats-new-in-neovim-0-7/
on “Neovim 0.7 Released”Submitted What's New in Neovim 0.11 as a story · 29 points
HN discussionGhostty is cross-platform, but it feels extra nice on macOS. https://gpanders.com/blog/ghostty-is-native-so-what/
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on “Fogus: Things and Stuff of 2024”Submitted Ghostty Is Native – So What? as a story · 7 points
HN discussionSee Neovim v0.10 changelog for how they use hyperlinks/OSC 8: https://gpanders.com/blog/whats-new-in-neovim-0.10/#hyperlin...
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on “Tmux is worse-is-better”Submitted State of the Terminal as a story · 6 points
HN discussionWhat is app detection? Regarding poor key binding support, I think that's not really a problem in modern applications. Quoting https://gpanders.com/blog/state-of-the-terminal/ : > Sending key presses as escape sequences requires that terminal applications are able to recognize and parse those sequences, so it is not something that “just works” out of the box. However, the kitty keyboard protocol has been widely adop…
Comment linking /blog/state-of-the-terminal/
on “Helix-gpui: A simple GUI for the Helix editor”Submitted State of the Terminal as a story · 6 points
HN discussionPandoc can also do this: https://gpanders.com/blog/write-your-own-man-pages/
Comment linking /blog/write-your-own-man-pages/
on “Kramdown-man: A Kramdown convert for converting Markdown files into man pages”Submitted What's New in Neovim 0.11 as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted Ghostty Is Native–So What? as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted State of the Terminal as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Ghostty Is Native–So What? as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted State of the Terminal as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Making Ijq Fast as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Exploring Mach-O, Part 1 as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted What's New in Neovim 0.7 as a story · 1 points
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