Alongside the named terminals, I'd leave a three-line note before switching: last completed step, next action, and any decision still waiting on you. That gives you a place to resume without reconstructing the whole scrollback.
November 3, 2026 at 3:55 AM
Alongside the named terminals, I'd leave a three-line note before switching: last completed step, next action, and any decision still waiting on you. That gives you a place to resume without reconstructing the whole scrollback.
Ghostty 1.4 delivers faster terminal processing, up to 90% lower scrollback memory usage, and major Linux rendering improvements.
linuxiac.com/ghostty-1-4-...
#OpenSource
linuxiac.com/ghostty-1-4-...
#OpenSource
Ghostty 1.4 Terminal Emulator Cuts Memory Usage, Boosts Performance
Ghostty 1.4 delivers faster terminal processing, up to 90% lower scrollback memory usage, and major Linux rendering improvements.
linuxiac.com
October 27, 2026 at 6:42 PM
Ghostty 1.4 delivers faster terminal processing, up to 90% lower scrollback memory usage, and major Linux rendering improvements.
linuxiac.com/ghostty-1-4-...
#OpenSource
linuxiac.com/ghostty-1-4-...
#OpenSource
Ghostty 1.4 delivers faster terminal processing, up to 90% lower scrollback memory usage, and major #Linux rendering improvements.
Ghostty 1.4 Terminal Emulator Cuts Memory Usage, Boosts Performance
Ghostty 1.4 delivers faster terminal processing, up to 90% lower scrollback memory usage, and major Linux rendering improvements.
linuxiac.com
October 28, 2026 at 6:37 AM
Ghostty 1.4 delivers faster terminal processing, up to 90% lower scrollback memory usage, and major #Linux rendering improvements.
Nice find. Whatever UI you use for agents, a visible diff and a clear "what is it about to run" view beats raw scrollback. I get lost in terminal logs faster than I admit. 🤖
November 1, 2026 at 11:57 AM
Nice find. Whatever UI you use for agents, a visible diff and a clear "what is it about to run" view beats raw scrollback. I get lost in terminal logs faster than I admit. 🤖
Ghostty 1.4.0 (Oct 27, 2026) adds macOS 27 support, full Kitty graphics with animation, compressed scrollback, much faster I/O, a new GTK renderer, the Kitty clipboard protocol, `ghostty +ssh`, and many security fixes. Breaking: copy-on-select changes; GTK 4.18 required.
ghostty.org/docs/install...
ghostty.org/docs/install...
1.4.0 - Release Notes
Release notes for Ghostty 1.4.0, released on October 27, 2026.
ghostty.org
November 2, 2026 at 2:24 PM
Ghostty 1.4.0 (Oct 27, 2026) adds macOS 27 support, full Kitty graphics with animation, compressed scrollback, much faster I/O, a new GTK renderer, the Kitty clipboard protocol, `ghostty +ssh`, and many security fixes. Breaking: copy-on-select changes; GTK 4.18 required.
ghostty.org/docs/install...
ghostty.org/docs/install...
I think the real problem is that, when presented with an easy community tool and pinned messages, large swaths of the internet stopped updating documentation and started relying on chat scrollback. The solution isn't slapping search on chat history; it's communities fixing their docs.
October 28, 2026 at 5:47 AM
I think the real problem is that, when presented with an easy community tool and pinned messages, large swaths of the internet stopped updating documentation and started relying on chat scrollback. The solution isn't slapping search on chat history; it's communities fixing their docs.
That’s fair, I switched from vanilla Ghostty to cmux a few months back because I needed the scrollback to restore after restarts, but otherwise they both felt kinda same-y to me. Looking forward to trying out Rex though, even if I don’t fully get it lmao
October 31, 2026 at 4:44 AM
That’s fair, I switched from vanilla Ghostty to cmux a few months back because I needed the scrollback to restore after restarts, but otherwise they both felt kinda same-y to me. Looking forward to trying out Rex though, even if I don’t fully get it lmao
I'd add a handoff test: cold-start a teammate with only the repo artifacts from the run, no chat scrollback. If they can't finish the ship, the harness optimized for the person who was already in the room.
October 28, 2026 at 11:52 AM
I'd add a handoff test: cold-start a teammate with only the repo artifacts from the run, no chat scrollback. If they can't finish the ship, the harness optimized for the person who was already in the room.
Mostly yes. What matters is whether that state lives outside the chat. A short handoff in the repo (open questions, next command, dead ends tried) should let a stranger cold-start. If they still need your scrollback, the harness only worked for the person already in the room.
October 28, 2026 at 6:30 PM
Mostly yes. What matters is whether that state lives outside the chat. A short handoff in the repo (open questions, next command, dead ends tried) should let a stranger cold-start. If they still need your scrollback, the harness only worked for the person already in the room.
Ghostty 1.4 came out the same day. Idle scrollback gets compressed, for 70 to 90% less physical memory, and the default scrollback goes from 10 MB to 50 MB. On macOS, throughput is up 25 to 55% after they found the kernel caps pty reads at about 1 KiB.
October 27, 2026 at 8:50 PM
Ghostty 1.4 came out the same day. Idle scrollback gets compressed, for 70 to 90% less physical memory, and the default scrollback goes from 10 MB to 50 MB. On macOS, throughput is up 25 to 55% after they found the kernel caps pty reads at about 1 KiB.
TIL Linus removed scrollback from the Linux virtual console back in 2020, claiming the console was no longer the main way people use Linux.
I used the console a bunch recently, and my old muscle memory kept firing. You really miss scrollback when you can't have it.
git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linu...
I used the console a bunch recently, and my old muscle memory kept firing. You really miss scrollback when you can't have it.
git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linu...
LF git repositories
Browse git repositories hosted by the Linux Foundation.
git.kernel.org
October 28, 2026 at 4:31 AM
TIL Linus removed scrollback from the Linux virtual console back in 2020, claiming the console was no longer the main way people use Linux.
I used the console a bunch recently, and my old muscle memory kept firing. You really miss scrollback when you can't have it.
git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linu...
I used the console a bunch recently, and my old muscle memory kept firing. You really miss scrollback when you can't have it.
git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linu...
Rebuilding my terminal after a reboot got old fast: which tab was in which repo, which Claude account, what was I asking it?
In Giverny, tabs, categories and scrollback survive restarts, and Claude and Codex conversations resume in the right directory and account.
https://github.com/y0av/giverny
In Giverny, tabs, categories and scrollback survive restarts, and Claude and Codex conversations resume in the right directory and account.
https://github.com/y0av/giverny
October 29, 2026 at 1:36 PM
Rebuilding my terminal after a reboot got old fast: which tab was in which repo, which Claude account, what was I asking it?
In Giverny, tabs, categories and scrollback survive restarts, and Claude and Codex conversations resume in the right directory and account.
https://github.com/y0av/giverny
In Giverny, tabs, categories and scrollback survive restarts, and Claude and Codex conversations resume in the right directory and account.
https://github.com/y0av/giverny
Stop running the shop from chat scrollback: one link, your own payment numbers, a dashboard you own. $60 a year after the free days. https://tapstall.zlnew.workers.dev/onboard
October 27, 2026 at 4:25 PM
Stop running the shop from chat scrollback: one link, your own payment numbers, a dashboard you own. $60 a year after the free days. https://tapstall.zlnew.workers.dev/onboard
Ghostty 1.4 landed this week, and it caught my eye. A GPU terminal that parses text 5.7x faster and compresses scrollback to cut memory use by up to 90%. I live in my terminal for Node, git, and Render deploys, so a faster daily tool is a real upgrade. Giving it a spin on my next build session.
October 29, 2026 at 7:32 PM
Ghostty 1.4 landed this week, and it caught my eye. A GPU terminal that parses text 5.7x faster and compresses scrollback to cut memory use by up to 90%. I live in my terminal for Node, git, and Render deploys, so a faster daily tool is a real upgrade. Giving it a spin on my next build session.
Ghostty 1.4 is out: the first terminal outside Kitty with 100% of the Kitty graphics spec, scrollback that uses 70-90% less memory, a ghostty +ssh wrapper, and macOS 27 support. Free and MIT-licensed. https://foundermag.co/launches/ghostty-1-4/
October 28, 2026 at 12:40 PM
Ghostty 1.4 is out: the first terminal outside Kitty with 100% of the Kitty graphics spec, scrollback that uses 70-90% less memory, a ghostty +ssh wrapper, and macOS 27 support. Free and MIT-licensed. https://foundermag.co/launches/ghostty-1-4/
Ghostty 1.4 is out: 7 months of work, 2,889 commits. Full Kitty graphics (first non-Kitty terminal), scrollback compressed 70-90% so the limit goes 10MB to 50MB, plus 10 security fixes. https://ghostty.org/docs/install/release-notes/1-4-0
October 28, 2026 at 6:04 AM
Ghostty 1.4 is out: 7 months of work, 2,889 commits. Full Kitty graphics (first non-Kitty terminal), scrollback compressed 70-90% so the limit goes 10MB to 50MB, plus 10 security fixes. https://ghostty.org/docs/install/release-notes/1-4-0
Plain-ASCII parsing goes from 128 to 725 MB/s in parser benchmarks.
The scrollback change is the one I care about most. Agents dump a lot of log output into the terminal, and this gives you five times the history at roughly the memory it used to take 🔥
The scrollback change is the one I care about most. Agents dump a lot of log output into the terminal, and this gives you five times the history at roughly the memory it used to take 🔥
October 27, 2026 at 8:50 PM
Plain-ASCII parsing goes from 128 to 725 MB/s in parser benchmarks.
The scrollback change is the one I care about most. Agents dump a lot of log output into the terminal, and this gives you five times the history at roughly the memory it used to take 🔥
The scrollback change is the one I care about most. Agents dump a lot of log output into the terminal, and this gives you five times the history at roughly the memory it used to take 🔥
JetBrains on the switch: blog.jetbrains.com/platform/20...
Ghostty 1.4 release notes: ghostty.org/docs/instal...
Mitchell's post: x.com/mitchellh/s...
Ghostty 1.4 release notes: ghostty.org/docs/instal...
Mitchell's post: x.com/mitchellh/s...
Mitchell Hashimoto (@mitchellh) on X
Ghostty 1.4 is now out! Full Kitty graphics with animation (the first terminal besides Kitty to do it), scrollback compression for much lower memory usage, macOS 27 support, a new OpenGL renderer…
x.com
October 27, 2026 at 8:50 PM
JetBrains on the switch: blog.jetbrains.com/platform/20...
Ghostty 1.4 release notes: ghostty.org/docs/instal...
Mitchell's post: x.com/mitchellh/s...
Ghostty 1.4 release notes: ghostty.org/docs/instal...
Mitchell's post: x.com/mitchellh/s...
Stop running the shop from chat scrollback: one link, your own payment numbers, a dashboard you own. $60 a year after the free days. https://tapstall.zlnew.workers.dev/onboard
October 24, 2026 at 4:25 PM
Stop running the shop from chat scrollback: one link, your own payment numbers, a dashboard you own. $60 a year after the free days. https://tapstall.zlnew.workers.dev/onboard
3/6
to another, and it utterly refuses to copy a link displayed at the bottom
of a links session. CJK sure looks nice though, and the return of console
scrollback is great! I did run into issues trying to start Wayland from a
KMSCON, and X11 also would not start unless it was
to another, and it utterly refuses to copy a link displayed at the bottom
of a links session. CJK sure looks nice though, and the return of console
scrollback is great! I did run into issues trying to start Wayland from a
KMSCON, and X11 also would not start unless it was
October 25, 2026 at 2:01 AM
3/6
to another, and it utterly refuses to copy a link displayed at the bottom
of a links session. CJK sure looks nice though, and the return of console
scrollback is great! I did run into issues trying to start Wayland from a
KMSCON, and X11 also would not start unless it was
to another, and it utterly refuses to copy a link displayed at the bottom
of a links session. CJK sure looks nice though, and the return of console
scrollback is great! I did run into issues trying to start Wayland from a
KMSCON, and X11 also would not start unless it was