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Just tested out my Sixel Cloud demo in the web terminal and it seems to work OK. Fair amount of data flowing across the pipe though but TBH xterm.js doesn't handle it at all (although I'm not saying this terminal is better than xterm.js at all).

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The #hex1b terminal stack includes its own terminal emulator which maintains what it things the terminal state is even if you are connected to a real emulator - so conceptually this is just projecting that terminal state onto a web canvas. At this point there are lots of question marks around perf.

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Experimenting with the idea of #hex1b having its own web-based terminal renderer that uses WebGPU. All of the terminal state stays server side with the Hex1bTerminal instance, but state updates are transmitted over the wire via a websocket to some JS code that renders onto canvas.

I think it’s ok to just have a bit of fun.

Mitch Denny @mitchdenny.dev · 05/09/2026

Turns out Sixels in Windows Terminal are pretty solid.

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Mitch Denny @mitchdenny.dev · 03/09/2026

Will need to try out Windows Terminal's support next.

Mitch Denny @mitchdenny.dev · 03/09/2026

I'm trying to get the same simulation going in iTerm2 but can't get the scaling right.

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Mitch Denny @mitchdenny.dev · 03/09/2026

Sixels is a pretty old school terminal graphics capability which has gotten a bit of more attention recently. Increasingly modern terminal are adopting Kitty Graphics Protocol - but there are some terminals out there that support Sixels. Here is WezTerm running a simulation.

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Mitch Denny @mitchdenny.dev · 01/09/2026

KGP animation support in a Hex1b TUI application. The terminal in this case is Kitty (because Ghostty doesnt' support animation in the current released build). But what I am showing off here is Hex1b handling composing and animating multiple images including occlusion in the TUI framework.

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Mitch Denny @mitchdenny.dev · 31/08/2026

Fresh terminal emulator challenge. This video shows a Hex1b app with multiple independent terminal widgets running inside the TUI framework - but the interesting thing is that KGP graphics are flowing through from the nested terminals to the outer terminal. Needed this for a feature in Aspire 13.6

Mitch Denny @mitchdenny.dev · 29/08/2026

This is all from within a nested session that it created to automatically manage its context window as part of a massive push to improve KGP conformance in #hex1b.

Mitch Denny @mitchdenny.dev · 29/08/2026

In order to figure this out the agent is going to have to make sure that its running a vendored build of xterm.js in a sample app in the repo which in turn runs a nested sample app. It then needs to analyze some recent PRs to spot the regression and create a fix.

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Mitch Denny @mitchdenny.dev · 29/08/2026

12 months ago I would never have believed that I could give a coding agent a prompt like this and expect that it would do the right thing (using #GitHub app BTW):

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Mitch Denny @mitchdenny.dev · 27/08/2026

Australia is willing to send you Vegimite ... nothing can live on that.

Mitch Denny @mitchdenny.dev · 25/08/2026

Looks like some kind of infection. Might need some antibiotics stat.

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Mitch Denny @mitchdenny.dev · 17/08/2026

We are in dogfooding mode over here in @aspire.dev. Found (and fixed) some juicy juicy bugs. Huge payload in this release as usual.

Mitch Denny @mitchdenny.dev · 17/08/2026

The movie Moon (2009) is a good metaphor for agents running until their context window expires.

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Mitch Denny @mitchdenny.dev · 16/08/2026

Want to see the difference between Australia and the US in one headline... "Australian PM wants a gun crackdown/buyback" Australians:....

static.klipy.com

Kermit The Frog Nodding

ALT: Kermit The Frog Nodding

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Mitch Denny @mitchdenny.dev · 15/08/2026

Sometimes it’s routing. And I think we’ve established that in Australia at least it can sometimes be time servers.

Maxwolf @bigmaxwolf.com · 14/08/2026

Reposted by Mitch Denny

OREGON TRAIL A clone of the popular 90's computer game, rebuilt from scratch and playable right in your terminal. It is free, it runs on Windows, Mac, and Linux, and it comes with the original MECC artwork and chiptunes bundled in. C# source is on GitHub. bigmaxwolf.com/oregon-trail...

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Mitch Denny @mitchdenny.dev · 11/08/2026

Make sure you fill out the #census form for your doggos:

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Mitch Denny @mitchdenny.dev · 06/08/2026

Hello @aspire.dev / #aspire friends. Does anyone deploy their apps directly on VMSS clusters these days? I have a proof of concept of `aspire deploy` being able to hoist an app and run it directly on a VMSS cluster but I'm not really sure how common this scenario is these days.

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Mitch Denny @mitchdenny.dev · 05/08/2026

A few folks on the @aspire.dev team have been putting some polish on the Aspire dashboard this iteration and I just played with it in a build from main and its looking really nice. Not one thing in particular but lots of little refinements.

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Finally watching the Expanse. In think Draper might my favourite character.

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Explains how fast he moves over open ground.

Kinda looks like a crashed Star Destroyer. Same energy.

Mitch Denny @mitchdenny.dev · 30/07/2026

What is this whole Jimothy thing? Stupid answers only - I want amusement.

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I’ve been using email because I was a geek and read RFCs in my lunch hours at school. Dot matrix printouts in a binder. Used to have lots of fun sending emails to people via telnet in the days before sender verification.

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Mitch Denny @mitchdenny.dev · 29/07/2026

If you want your daily dose of stupid just look at the average comment in this YouTube video of Dr Fauci’s congressional testimony. m.youtube.com/watch?v=zicm... For the avoidance of all doubt I believe that vaccines save lives.

m.youtube.com

LIVE: Dr. Anthony Fauci testifies at Senate hearing on COVID-19 (FULL)

YouTube video by Associated Press

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Mitch Denny @mitchdenny.dev · 20/07/2026

Sets reminder to check your on-call roster so am better prepared next time.

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Mitch Denny @mitchdenny.dev · 20/07/2026

Duct tape would probably work better if you want to stick cats to your window.

Mitch Denny @mitchdenny.dev · 20/07/2026

That's right you little spinners ... spin ... SPIN!

Partial screenshot of GitHub App with pinned jobs running.