It’s a whole year since I first started developing nomad! I recently made some changes that I thought were worth highlighting with a blog, so here it is! New control sequence parsing I decided to re-implement the logic that nomad uses to parse control sequences from program output.

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A lot has changed since I last posted. Namely I have finally given this project a GitHub repo for anyone who wants to follow my progress or even give it a test drive. The short version Here’s a quick list of updates:

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Look! I made more progress! This week has mostly been bug-fixing and reverse-engineering the functionality of certain control sequences. One method I’ve found very useful is opening Terminal.app and running $ printf '\e#8' # fill the terminal screen with "E" (no really) $ printf '\e[XXX' to see what happens!

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If you squint at the above GIF, you can see that I’ve made quite a bit of progress since my last post a great introduction, pls read for context. Shmonad.js can now spawn multiple child processes and handle their output, buffering it into an appropriately-sized viewport.

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One of my biggest obsessions is developing as fast as I can type on a keyboard. It has gotten so bad at times that previous managers of mine have suggested adding another column to the Kanban board for dev env optimisation just for me!

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