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Jeff Henshaw @jeff.henshaw.org · 01/10/2026

Bas is a brilliant physicist and coder. His Mindroom OSS AI project has evolved into a fundamental part of the tech fabric that is unlocking new results in both science and engineering. www.nijho.lt/post/mindroo...

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Slowly, then all at once: AI agents that know how a company works | Bas Nijholt

MindRoom grew one small group at a time at IonQ, until a company-wide demo made hundreds of people sign up in a day. What surprised me is that the heaviest users include engineers who already live in ...

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Bas Nijholt @basnijholt.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

I spent perhaps 1000 hours building pipefunc (scientific workflows in #Python). To explain it better I created Tuitorial for interactive terminal based code tutorials. Turns out that in just a few days it’s already more popular (using a vanity metric) than pipefunc! Look at that exponential 😅

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Bas Nijholt @basnijholt.bsky.social · 29/12/2024

Found a couple of things that I miss already 😢: - No find (github.com/ghostty-org/...) - No scrollbar (github.com/ghostty-org/...) - No clickable file paths (with line number) (github.com/ghostty-org/...)

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Search scrollback · Issue #189 · ghostty-org/ghostty

A major missing feature is the ability to search scrollback, i.e. cmd+f on Mac, ctrl+F on Linux. This issue can be implemented in multiple steps, not just one giant PR: Core search functionality in...

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Bas Nijholt @basnijholt.bsky.social · 29/12/2024

Check out my new project: `tuitorial` that I am super excited about! 🎉 Create interactive, terminal-based code tutorials with programmable highlighting (regex and other patterns). Supports Python/YAML, images, Markdown title slides. 💻✨ github.com/basnijholt/t... #opensource #python

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Bas Nijholt @basnijholt.bsky.social · 29/12/2024

I have always stuck to iTerm2 but tried WezTerm, Alacritty, and Kitty but kept going back. Didn't even THINK that performance would matter at all, but it is crazy how snappy Ghostty feels. I just installed it today and feel like I won't ever go back to iTerm2!

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Bas Nijholt @basnijholt.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

🔥 Released opennb: open Jupyter notebooks + deps from GitHub or any url instantly! uvx --with "pipefunc[docs]" opennb pipefunc/pipefunc/example.ipynb One command: ✨ Creates temp venv 📦 Installs deps (instant!) 📓 Opens notebook github.com/basnijholt/opennb #Python

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GitHub - basnijholt/opennb: Open Jupyter notebooks from GitHub repositories or URLs directly in Jupyter.

Open Jupyter notebooks from GitHub repositories or URLs directly in Jupyter. - basnijholt/opennb

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