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Charles Lowell @cogentdude.com · 07/07/2026

In thevelocitywhitepapers.com they unveil the "Ship of Government IT" But the ship is not complete without my addition: "The Pole of Flogging Analogies"

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Charles Lowell @cogentdude.com · 07/07/2026

Further experimentation with input methods and focus stacks in @bomb.sh Notice how focus cycling is constrained to just the dialog box when it opens, but then returns to the main form when it is closed.

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Charles Lowell @cogentdude.com · 03/07/2026

I love it when a model comes together. This time, spiking out focus cycling and text editing with native cursors for @bomb.sh Special bonus: pluggable editing keymaps! (this demo uses readline bindings)

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Charles Lowell @cogentdude.com · 01/07/2026

Fun times! A draft implementation of placing a native cursor anywhere inside a @bomb.sh/tty layout

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Charles Lowell @cogentdude.com · 28/06/2026

Here's an example of a sidebar transition working in Alacritty I don't have ready access to gnome-terminal, but does that answer your question?

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Charles Lowell @cogentdude.com · 11/05/2026

And the Oscar for best gif in a README goes agent-recall for emacs github.com/Marx-A00/age...

Arnold Scwharznegger is strapped into the Recall machine from the movie "Total Recall" There are two electronic interfaces against his head (presumably through which memories are injected). These have each been photoshopped to have one with the Claude icon and the other with the Emacs icon.

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Charles Lowell @cogentdude.com · 23/04/2026

Kitty can handle over 500fps of repaint-heavy animations like this without judder, GhostTTY and iterm2 not far behind

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Charles Lowell @cogentdude.com · 23/04/2026

Just put together an initial implementation of transitions for clayterm. Yes, these are just terminal apps.

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Charles Lowell @cogentdude.com · 18/04/2026

Scrolling multiple sources in the main window within floating boxes

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Charles Lowell @cogentdude.com · 18/04/2026

These demos showing virtual scrolling with clayterm are kind of amazing.

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Charles Lowell @cogentdude.com · 09/04/2026

Added "line" mode to clayterm to support nice interactions in normal scrolling CLIs. The trick: 1. render frame continuously into the region at the bottom. 2. "commit" the final frame to scroll history. Non-terminal pipes like CI logs see the last frame only, so look nice github.com/thefrontside...

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Charles Lowell @cogentdude.com · 02/04/2026

Don't really need to tune in to see how it landed. Can you spot 9pm EST on the timeline?

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Charles Lowell @cogentdude.com · 30/03/2026

Wired up "hit detection" to emit hover, enter, and leave pointer events inside clayterm. github.com/thefrontside...

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Charles Lowell @cogentdude.com · 27/03/2026

Some new Project / CI badges for this brave new frontier

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Charles Lowell @cogentdude.com · 26/03/2026

Whipped up a quick app with clayterm explore the Kitty Keyboard Protocol which I learned most modern terminal emulators implement to progressively enhance terminal input sw.kovidgoyal.net/kitty/keyboa... You can turn the various progressive enhancements on and off and see what events get raised

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Charles Lowell @cogentdude.com · 26/03/2026

Writing a terminal renderer for JavaScript was so chill! - WASM build of Clay for layout (github.com/nicbarker/clay) - Crank for JSX and stupid simple reactivity

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Charles Lowell @cogentdude.com · 10/11/2025