Mitchell Hashimoto
Creator of Ghostty and co-founder of Superlogical, started in 2026 to build server-side terminal infrastructure. Co-founded HashiCorp and created Vagrant and Terraform before that.
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The entire industry may soon be able to drop their heuristics and get deterministic status updates.
Their wordsIn less than a week I think we're nearly at a place where the entire industry can drop their heuristics and get deterministic status updates.
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Their wordsAn uncomfortable truth for a lot of people is that a lot of the most successful people in any industry are wicked smart.
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Their wordsThe human experience is why life is worth living (even for something as teeny tiny as a terminal).
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Terminal programs bias toward dark modes, and explicit colors are hostile to light modes and themes.
Their wordsTerminal programs bias to dark modes and explicit colors are hostile to light modes and themes.
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Their wordsI should be able to pull you aside at any moment and ask you to explain any customer-facing system you've shipped. You should be able to clearly explain how it works and defend the decisions you made.
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Their wordsThe final boss will be getting DOOM running where every pixel is its own terminal. Software should be fun.
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Their wordsthe realization/belief that the world around them is completely mutable. Most everything that happens is because a person made it happen.
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The difference between mediocre and excellent work and outcomes is predominantly one of agency.
Their wordsThe difference between mediocre and excellent work and outcomes is predominantly one of agency.
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Their wordsI can’t stress enough how little an idea matters compared to the agency of the people executing the idea.
- 9 days earlier
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Investing in strong fundamentals and invisible supports makes good outcomes follow naturally
Their wordsInvest in building strong fundamentals, invisible supports, and outcomes flow like water.
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Their wordsI can't tell you the number of people over my career that have said "I tried learning tmux" First problem: the fact you have to "learn it" at all. The world's best multiplexer is the one you don't have to learn. It just works.
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Their wordsI'm so incredibly tired of seeing low-effort AI-designed web pages. I basically bounce off any new product immediately when I see it (never get a chance to judge the product itself). Lots of thin lines, glowy styles, inconsistent fonts, lots of monospace.
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High-quality internal tools produce high-quality external products — a form of Conway's law.
Their wordsA form of Conway's law: high quality internal tools lead to high quality external tools.
- 6 months earlier
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Their wordsImmediately cease trying to perform meaningful work via a chatbot (e.g. ChatGPT, Gemini on the web, etc.). Chatbots have real value and are a daily part of my AI workflow, but their utility in coding is highly limited because you're mostly hoping they come up with the right results based on their prior training, and correcting them involves a human (you) to tell them they're wrong repeatedly.
- 4 months earlier
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Their wordsThis is intentional and I believe good AI drivers are experts in their domains and utilize AI as an assistant, not a replacement.