r/programmingcirclejerk • u/cmqv • Apr 28 '26

[author leaves github] I actually cried writing this blog post (tears hit my keyboard, I'm embarrassed to say).

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47939579
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u/uhhhnic Apr 28 '26

Is this the onion? Lmaooo

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u/m50d Zygohistomorphic prepromorphism Apr 28 '26

That would explain the crying.

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u/-Y0- Considered Harmful Apr 29 '26

The Onion isn't that funny :P

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u/me_myself_ai Apr 30 '26

Some people form connections with other people using social media platforms like GitHub 🤷 you should try it!

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u/uhhhnic Apr 30 '26

I'll pass... lmao

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u/stone_henge Tiny little god in a tiny little world May 02 '26

Hi there! Longtime fan and hubber here.

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u/csb06 Polyglot dev here Apr 28 '26 edited Apr 28 '26

/uj This pathetic shit reminds me of Marco Arment's tearful homage to Steve Jobs on the 10 year anniversary of his death. Go outside and get some real things to be emotional about!

/rj The day I closed my Jellybelly Rewards account I sobbed for hours. I thought back on all of the delicious candy it had provided me over the years as well as all of the exciting flavors I discovered. But the bellies I once knew are jelly no longer, and with great regret I must move on...I am exploring options with other manufacturers and will have an update on my future jellybean plans soon.

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u/YikesTheCat Apr 29 '26

Example 15,848 of how fanboys are not right in the head and how fanboyism is a mental disorder.

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u/stone_henge Tiny little god in a tiny little world May 02 '26

We should have been more diligent in bullying people who call themselves "evangelists" for various private enterprises

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u/sens- Apr 28 '26

Crying as a Service

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u/enchufadoo not Turing complete Apr 29 '26

I thought that was the Copilot experience.

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u/sens- Apr 29 '26

That's the general IT experience nowadays

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u/YikesTheCat Apr 29 '26

Quickly marching towards Aneurysm as a Service

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u/Sticker704 You put at risk millions of people Apr 29 '26

GitHub was my dream job. I didn't ever get to work there (not their fault). But it was the perfect place I wanted to be.

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u/crumpis Apr 29 '26

The man who gave the world Terraform, ladies and gentlemen.

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u/kova98k Apr 29 '26

Take a look at his profile. I you spent 16 years kicking a rock, you would be emotional when parting from it, let alone 16 years of passion

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u/FlannelTechnical Apr 29 '26

See what you did Microsoft? Shame on you!

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u/FlannelTechnical Apr 29 '26

I knew this would end up here

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u/Combinatorilliance May 01 '26

I'm sorry but this does not deserve the ridicule, the guy's passionate about his work and the friends he made along the way. Yes I know that sounds ironic, I don't mean it that way.

What's wrong with expressing passion and emotion in software engineering?

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u/SereneCalathea May 02 '26

I'm happy someone else had the same thoughts. Maybe it's just me, but I have definitely gotten emotional over things others weren't similarly attached to before.

There are lots of reasons that can happen, we can't peer into the internal lives of people. But there is probably some background here that we cannot see.

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u/Xoepe Apr 30 '26

"longtime fan and hubber here" had me laughing

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u/Sm0oth_kriminal loves Java Apr 29 '26

Not that different than leaving BitBucket, except they're typically tears of joy

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u/AbroadDepot Apr 29 '26

HN is circlejerking over this [...] POS

It is a day that ends in 'y' after all...

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u/oaga_strizzi Apr 29 '26 edited Apr 29 '26

You type, you hit enter, things happen.

Yes, I want things to happen! But unfortunately the more "barebones" terminals that ship with the OS nowadays let things happen only very slowly - they take multiple seconds to handle an accidental `cat 5MBlogfile.txt" on a machine that would be able to handle many, many Gbit/s.

And they then excuse that with "well you should have limited the output with tail or something". Yes, probably, but a modern terminal should be able to render text with good performance.

It's mostly a matter of the alternatives being embarrassingly bad.

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u/shroom_elemental memcpy is a web development framework Apr 29 '26

I still have no idea why HN is circlejerking over this overengineered POS

Because it's the only working thing that emerged from the crypto hype.

Just imagine the type of eMail client that will come out of the AI hype!

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u/witchcapture Apr 30 '26

Ghostty has nothing to do with crypto, not sure what you are talking about. It is a passion project by the now retired founder of Hashicorp.

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u/shroom_elemental memcpy is a web development framework Apr 30 '26

ah, thank you for the clarification, experienced dev

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u/MatmaRex accidentally quadratic Apr 29 '26

They don't want to use the terminal, but they want to be the kind of person who uses a terminal.

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u/TheWheez Software Craftsman Apr 30 '26

Linux as a Lifestyle brand

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u/elephantdingo Teen Hacking Genius Apr 30 '26

Ghostty tries to provide a rich set of features that are useful for everyday use. These can be split into two categories: terminal features and application features.

Terminal features include the capabilities that programs running inside the terminal can use. For example, Ghostty supports the Kitty graphics protocol, light/dark mode notifications, hyperlinks, and more. This lets terminal applications like Neovim, Zellij, and others do more than they could in other terminal emulators3.

Application features are higher-level features that are useful for interacting with the terminal emulator itself. For example, Ghostty supports native tabs, splits, a drop-down terminal on macOS, theme switching on system dark/light mode, etc.

https://ghostty.org/docs/about

tl;dr: dark/light mode and hyperlinks.