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Mitchell Hashimoto

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Zig Software / engineering practice Performance / optimization

’15’20 ’25

Posts: 54 from 21 Jan 2013 to 6 Oct 2026
Posting: monthly (11 in the last year)
Kind: personal blog
Feed: https://mitchellh.com/feed.xml

2026 10

6 OctA Terminal Protocol for Program Status (OSC 7501)
29 JulSuperlogical
22 JulEveryone Should Know SIMD
21 JunPledging Another $400,000 to the Zig Software Foundation
28 AprGhostty Is Leaving GitHub
15 AprSimdutf Can Now Be Used Without libc++ or libc++abi
7 AprThe Building Block Economy
5 FebMy AI Adoption Journey
21 JanDon't Trip[wire] Yourself: Testing Error Recovery in Zig
10 JanFinding and Fixing Ghostty's Largest Memory Leak

2025 9

3 DecGhostty Is Now Non-Profit
11 OctVibing a Non-Trivial Ghostty Feature
3 OctZig Builds Are Getting Faster
22 SepLibghostty Is Coming
30 AugYou Have to Feel It
20 AugAdvice for Tech Non-Profits
14 AugWe Rewrote the Ghostty GTK Application
4 Mar"As Code"
7 FebWelcoming Ghostty Subsystem Maintainers

2024 7

26 DecGhostty: Reflecting on Reaching 1.0
22 OctGhostty 1.0 is Coming
1 OctPledging $300,000 to the Zig Software Foundation
23 SepTagged Union Subsets with Comptime in Zig
12 SepConditionally Disabling Code with Comptime in Zig
4 AprJoining Polar as an Advisor
12 FebGhostty Devlog 006

2023 15

6 DecGhostty Devlog 005
2 OctGrapheme Clusters and Terminal Emulators
30 SepReorient GitHub Pull Requests Around Changesets
28 SepGhostty Devlog 004
12 SepTalk: Introducing Ghostty and Some Useful Zig Patterns
24 AugGhostty Devlog 003
5 AugGhostty Devlog 002
13 JulGhostty Devlog 001
1 JunMy Approach to Building Large Technical Projects
27 MayIntegrating Zig and SwiftUI
24 AprPrompt Engineering is for Transactional Prompting
23 AprUsing Nix with Dockerfiles
14 AprPrompt Engineering vs. Blind Prompting
4 AprGrowth of AI Through a Cloud Lens
14 MarMy Startup Banking Story

2022 6

2014 1

10 JanComparing Filesystem Performance in Virtual Machines

2013 6