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jeffquast.com
Personal blog · jeffquast.com/postprogrammingsystems
jeffquast.com is a personal blog at jeffquast.com about programming and systems. Since 2016, 11 different Hacker News readers have linked it 16 times, most often “State of Terminal Emulators in 2025: The Errant Champions”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-08-22, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (4) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog for a comparison of terminal emulators ("State of Terminal Emulators in 2025") and a piece on Hamurabi game strategies. Most comments cite it as support, and one calls the Hamurabi piece fun.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 4 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Software Engineer
Most-linked posts?
- State of Terminal Emulators in 2025: The Errant Champions4 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2025-11-03
- Technical writing with sphinx2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2016-02-16
- HAMURABI.BAS and Its Dystopian Lessons2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-07-12
- Offering a solution for Terminal Wide Character issues2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-06-07
What Hacker News says?
> All of the fuss seems to be entirely driven by Mitchell's clout, and maybe some interest in Zig. Nope, that's not it. It's mostly because he noticed the majority of terminal applications were okay but not great. So he decides to address this by creating a cross-platform terminal app that's faster and more compatible than pretty much every existing terminal app. And has a native macOS UI written in Swift without co…
Comment linking /post/state-of-terminal-emulation-2025/
on “Ghostty is now non-profit”Submitted State of Terminal Emulators in 2025: The Errant Champions as a story · 267 points
HN discussion> I don't think there are any. It is likely just a social media hype. It's not hype. Here's a comprehensive review of a lot of terminals and Ghostty did very well--"State of Terminal Emulators in 2025: The Errant Champions" [1] [1]: https://www.jeffquast.com/post/state-of-terminal-emulation-2...
Comment linking /post/state-of-terminal-emulation-2025/
on “Ghostty is now non-profit”Submitted HAMURABI.BAS and Its Dystopian Lessons as a story · 32 points
HN discussionThat actually pretty much is the ELI5. Its merely a different terminal that offers more features than iTerm2 and also runs on OSX. Unless you actually need/want those features (which, although I am a terminal aficionado, I must admit are niche as fuck), pick whichever terminal makes you happy. Features that are important to some people are performance, Unicode support, and OS support. The most decidedly non-ELI5 fea…
Comment linking /post/state-of-terminal-emulation-2025/
on “Ghostty compiled to WASM with xterm.js API compatibility”Submitted Technical writing with sphinx as a story · 4 points
HN discussionI wrote a brief article about pexpect, driving into the difference of why we chose to use a pseudo-terminal in some special cases of automation, https://jeffquast.com/post/terminal_1/
Comment linking /post/terminal_1/
on “Don Libes' Expect: A Surprisingly Underappreciated Unix Automation Tool”Submitted A Perfect SimCity as a story · 3 points
HN discussionI've tried to do this in the past, but there hasn't been much interest at large. I presented this article as a workshop in santa cruz python meetup earlier this year, https://jeffquast.com/post/technical_writing_with_sphinx/
Comment linking /post/technical_writing_with_sphinx/
on “ReStructuredText vs. Markdown for documentation”Submitted State of Terminal Emulators in 2025 as a story · 3 points
HN discussionLocation: Santa Cruz, CA Remote: Sure! Willing to relocate: For good offer Technologies: Python & Linux (19 & 23 yrs) Resume: https://jeffquast.com/resume-jquast.pdf Email: contact@jeffquast.com I developed the flight data recorder and telemetry systems for Joby Aviation's eVTOL aircraft. I maintain and have contributed to many top-100 python projects. Looking for a new opportunity, please do not hesitate to write!
Comment linking /resume-jquast.pdf
on “Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (February 2020)”Submitted Offering a solution for Terminal Wide Character issues as a story · 3 points
HN discussionFriend of mine recently wrote up a fun little piece on Hamurabi/strategies https://www.jeffquast.com/post/hamurabi_bas/
Comment linking /post/hamurabi_bas/
on “The Sumerian Game: The Most Important Video Game You've Never Heard Of (2021)”Submitted Terminal Emulators Battle Royale – Unicode Edition as a story · 2 points
HN discussionThere is an art in discovering which encoding the text vs. represented by application, by making sense of nonsense. https://jeffquast.com/soviet-encodings.jpg
Comment linking /soviet-encodings.jpg
on “Unitools – A suite of tools for working with Unicode in the browser”Submitted Offering a solution for Terminal Wide Character issues as a story · 1 points
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